NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Privateers baseball team (24-24) enters their final home week of the 2019 season on Tuesday when they face the Southern Jaguars (28-20). First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Maestri Field. The game will be televised on Cox Sports Television.
STARTERS
Cortlynn Ramirez (0-2, 6.61) will get the ball for New Orleans. The Jaguars' starter is yet to be announced.
QUICK HITS
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Brandon Mitchell won Southland Pitcher of the Week honors on Monday. Mitchell struck out 10 in 8.0 innings in a win over Abilene Christian. He became the first Privateer freshman to win a weekly superlative since Shawn Semple (2015).
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Mathew Oset picked up his team leading seventh win of the season on 5/5. Oset went four innings and allowed one earned run (two total). Oset has five appearances of three or more innings this season. He is tied for second in the Southland in wins.
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Collin Morrill enters the week tied for third in doubles in the Southland with 15. His 43 runs scored rank second in the conference behind Caleb Ricca (Northwestern State).
- The Privateers are 12-2 this season when they collect more hits than an opponent.
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Darren Willis has racked up 11 hits in his last seven games and has three multi-hit efforts in that span. Willis cracked his first career home run at Maestri Field on 5/3 vs. Abilene Christian. He ended the series against ACU by going 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored.
- It's been 117 games since the Privateers were last shut out (May 13, 2017 against Nicholls). That is currently the third longest streak without getting shut out in program history. The top five streaks (with start and end dates) are as follows:
1. 139 Games-4/19/78-3/7/81
1. 139 Games-3/16/07-4/7/09
3. 117 Games-5/14/17-Present
4. 90 Games-3/5/85-4/5/86
5. 69 Games- 3/8/76-4/21/77
ABOUT SOUTHERN
- Southern has clinched their division of the SWAC with a league record of 18-6. The Jaguars engineered a turnaround from last place in 2018 and being selected last ahead of the '19 campaign.
- Kerrick Jackson is in his second season as head coach after taking over for Roger Cador. Jackson's first season saw just nine wins but this year has already been a different story with 14 wins to date. While Jackson is newer to the head coaching duties, this is not his first stint in Louisiana. Among his stops before coming to Southern, Jackson was a pitching coach at Nicholls. He also spent five seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Missouri and helped guide the Tigers to their first ever Big 12 baseball championship in 2012. His '12 recruiting class ranked 24th in the nation.
- As a team, Southern is hitting .310 which ranks second in the SWAC only behind Jackson State. Their 90 doubles leads the conference. They've also racked up 127 stolen bases which places them third in the nation. The Jaguars also rank in the top ten in the country (8th) in triples with 20.
- Tyler LaPorte has produced 82 hits this season, ranking him third in the country in that statistic. His .380 batting average ranks him 37th in the nation. LaPorte has gone 3-for-9 over the first two games against the Privateers this season. He also pitched a scoreless inning on the mound against New Orleans in Baton Rouge.
- Javeyan Williams has been perfect on the base paths this year. Williams has attempted 25 stolen bases and has not been caught in 2019. His stolen base total ranks 24th in the nation.
- The Jaguars have had their fair share of success against in-state schools. Southern owns wins over LSU, New Orleans, Northwestern State, and Nicholls.
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