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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel baseball team hosts Siena at Joe Riley Park this weekend for the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
 
The Bulldogs (2-1) took the season-opening series over Virginia Tech behind solid pitching and timely hitting totaling 41 strikeouts and 15 hits over the weekend.
 
Siena comes into the weekend 0-5 and is in the midst of a 17-game road swing to open the season. The Bulldogs are in the middle of an eight-game homestand.
 
First pitch on Friday is set for 4 p.m. Saturday's game will begin at 2 p.m. and be followed by Meet the Bulldogs sponsored by Substation. Posters will be provided for fans and players will be available for autographs. Sunday's series finale will begin at 1 p.m.
 
Live stats and video will be available for all three games in the series at CitadelSports.com. For tickets, call 843-953-DOGS (3647) or visit CitadelSports.com/tickets.
 
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Notes:
• Coach Fred Jordan earned his 800th career win in the second game of the series with Virginia Tech.
• As a result of the 5-4 victory, Coach Jordan is the first coach in Southern Conference history to reach the 800-win milestone.
• Coach Jordan is one of 27 active Division I head coaches with 800 wins, earning all 800 victories as the coach of the Bulldogs.
• Head coach Fred Jordan is one of 62 coaches in NCAA Division I history with at least 800 wins at one school and is one of 39 to have earned all 800-plus wins at the same institution.
• The Citadel owns the top-two positions on the Southern Conference's all-time wins list. After Coach Jordan, former Bulldog coach Chal Port ranks second with 641 wins. The closest active SoCon head coach is Furman's Rod Smith with 551 career wins.
• This will be the first time The Citadel has faced Siena in the history of the two programs.
• The Bulldogs have only faced one other member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, defeating Quinnipiac 15-1 at Joe Riley Park in 2009.
• This weekend marks the first of two matchups this season featuring Coach Jordan and another head coach with at least 800 wins at his current institution. In addition to Siena's Tony Rossi, Coach Jordan will face off with Stetson's Pete Dunn in a three-game series April 1-3.
• The Bulldogs took the opening series for the second time in as many seasons, defeating Virginia Tech on Friday 4-2 and Saturday 5-4.
• This past weekend, the Bulldogs did most of their damage offensively in the last half of the game. Six of the nine runs were scored during or after the sixth inning.
• The Citadel is 12-13 in season openers and has won its last four under head coach Fred Jordan.
• Of the players who have started all three games thus far, Stephen Windham holds the best batting average at .364. The senior was 4-for-11 with two runs scored and a double.
• Drew Ellis recorded the first home run of the season, recording two RBI with the bomb in the bottom of the sixth inning on Friday.
• JP Sears tallied a career-high 12 strikeouts in the season-opening win over Virginia Tech. The sophomore allowed no runs and two hits in five innings of work. He currently ranks fourth in the nation in strikeouts and strikeouts per nine innings.
• Sears was also named SoCon Pitcher of the Week and one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week on Feb. 22 after his dominating performance in the series opener.
• Through the first two games of the season, the Bulldogs pitching staff fanned 30 of the 79 batters they faced.
• Thomas Byelick pitched a career-high six innings on Saturday, scattering six hits and striking out seven. The sophomore allowed just one earned run to cross the plate.
• The Bulldogs used a team-record 10 pitchers in the third game of the series against Virginia Tech, eight of which were making their collegiate debut.
• In the first weekend, The Citadel staff tallied a conference-best 41 strikeouts. 24 of those strikeouts can be credited to Sears (12), Byelick (7) and Zach Lavery (5).
• Lavery earned his first career save in the opening game of the series in two innings of relief. The senior earned his second career save by  striking out four batters in the second game of the series including the four and five batters for the Hokies with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth.