Southeast Missouri (7-19, 0-3 OVC) at Eastern Illinois (9-13, 1-2 OVC)
Series Schedule: Friday, 3:00 p.m., CT. - Saturday and Sunday 1:00 p.m., CT.
Location: Charleston, Ill.
Stadium: Coaches Stadium
Head Coaches: SEMO: Mark Hogan (510-439-1 / 18th Year); EIU: Jim Schmitz, (456-469 /18th Year)
Radio: ESPN 1220 AM (KGIR). Play-by-Play: Erik Sean
Live Stats: GoSoutheast.com
Audio Webcast: GoSoutheast.com
Weather Forecast:
Friday - Chance of Storms, 72 Degrees
Saturday - Sunny, 73 Degrees
Sunday - Sunny, 82 Degrees
Complete Southeast Missouri Baseball Game Notes
Quick Hits
Countdown to 900
Head coach Mark Hogan is five wins away for 900 wins in his career. Hogan has coached at the NJCAA (Lurleen B. Wallace), NCAA Division II (West Alabama) and NCAA Division I level (Southeast). Hogan has 510 wins at Southeast Missouri. Hogan collected his 500th career win against Eastern Illinois last season on May 20, 2011.In 2007, he passed Southeast legendary coach
Joe Uhls as the schools all-time wins leader.
View From the Top
Senior
Trenton Moses comes into weekend as the nation's lead in home runs with 12 on the season. He also leads the nation in total bases (88) and Slugging percentage (.957). the Advance, Mo. native also ranks fourth in the country in batting average at .467 and sixth in RBI (36).
Going Streaking
Senior Shortstop
Kenton Parmley is currently riding a 33 game hitting streak that dates back to last season.Parmley has also reached base safely in his last 42 contest that dates back to last season. Senior
Trenton Moses has now reached base safely in 46 straight contest that dates back to last season. Moses, who currently sports .590 on-base percentage, which ranks second in the nation. Moses also holds a 17 game hitting steak, he ranks 11th in the country in hits. Sophomore
Derek Gibson is currently riding a 10-game hitting streak that started against Arkansas-Little Rock, a contest in which he hit his first career home run.
Pitching Into Top 10
Junior
Shae Simmons has reached 54 career appearances after last Saturday's contest. He currently ranks 10th all-time at Southeast in appearances. He struck out 12 batters on Saturday. The 12 strikeouts were a career-high and the most at Southeast since
Josh Syberg's 14 in 2007. It was also the most strikeouts in an OVC contest since Todd Pennington struck out 13 against EKU on April 7, 2004.
Utility Men
Senior
Kody Campbell has started 25 games at three different positions this season with 12 starts at first base, seven at catcher and six at DH. Redshirt Freshman
Andy Lennington has started in 24 games at four different positions, 14 at first base, eight in right field, one at shortstop and one at centerfield.