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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel baseball will host a three-game series against Stetson beginning Friday at Joe Riley Park.

The Bulldogs (3-8) return home after playing a mid-week game at No. 7 South Carolina on Tuesday where they fell 12-5 to the Gamecocks.

The series with Stetson begins a nine-game home stand in a span of 12 days with mid-week games against Winthrop and Georgia Southern and a four-game series with Dartmouth.

First pitch for Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m., followed by a 2 p.m. start on Saturday and 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday. Live stats and video will be available at CitadelSports.com.

To purchase tickets, call The Citadel Athletic Ticket Office at 843-953-DOGS (3647) or visit CitadelSports.com/tickets.

Quick Hits

• Stetson narrowly leads the all-time series with a 6-4 record over The Citadel.
• The two teams met for the first time last year since 1993. The Hatters swept 2016's three-game series in Deland, Florida.
• The Bulldogs are 4-3 all-time at home against Stetson, but this will be the first games played at Joe Riley Park between the two teams.
• The Hatters sit with a 5-8 record and 0-1 on the road. This will be their first series away from Deland, Florida. Stetson hosts Seton Hall on Wednesday before visiting The Citadel over the weekend.
• LHP JP Sears enters the week tied for third in Division I with 32 strikeouts, while leading the Southern Conference. He also leads the SoCon with 16 strikeouts looking.
• The junior recorded 15 strikeouts on Friday at the College of Charleston, the second highest single-game total of his career.
• Sears walked his first batter of the season on Friday after beginning 2017 with 21 strikeouts in 13.2 innings before allowing his first free pass.
• The Sumter, South Carolina, native is also tied for seventh in Division I with a 16.00 strikeout-to-walk ratio and ranks eighth with 15.71 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Sears was selected the SoCon Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 27 after striking out 12 batters in a 4-0 victory over Delaware State. The award is the third of the career for Sears who won it twice in 2016.
• Jonathan Sabo led The Citadel offense on Tuesday at South Carolina with three hits, extending his hitting streak to eight games and on-base streak to 11 games.
• The junior transfer leads the team with a .326 batting average, 15 hits, three doubles, seven runs, 18 total bases and a .391 slugging percentage.
• First baseman Ben Peden and outfielder Barrett Charpia each hit their first home runs of the season on Tuesday at South Carolina. Peden drove in his seventh RBI in the fourth, while Charpia brought home two runs with a seventh inning dinger.
• Alex Bialakis threw three innings, allowing two runs with three strikeouts at South Carolina.
• In his first collegiate appearance, Austin Todd threw a shut out inning with a walk against the Gamecocks.
• William Kinney extended his streak of consecutive starts to 83 games, dating back to 2015. He has started the last 70 straight games at shortstop for The Citadel.
• After giving up three runs in the first inning on Sunday at the College of Charleston, Will Pillsbury, Aaron Lesiak and Marlin Morris combined to shut out the Cougars over the final seven innings.
• The Bulldogs walked a season-high 13 times on Tuesday, March 1 in a 9-8 victory over Presbyterian College. It is the most walks in a single game for The Citadel since 2007.
• Barrett Charpia walked four times in the game, the most for a single Bulldog player since 2007 as well.
• Relief pitcher Aaron Lesiak earned the win in relief against his former team on Feb. 27 vs Presbyterian.

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