CHARLESTON, S.C. – Coming off a home series victory against ETSU, The Citadel baseball team looks to continue their solid play in their final road series at UNCG May 12-14 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

With just two weeks left until the Southern Conference tournament, the Bulldogs (14-30, 5-13 SoCon) sit in eighth place and just one game behind VMI for seventh place.

The Bulldogs earned their first SoCon series victory in over a month when they defeated ETSU in two of three games. The Citadel nearly came away with a sweep, falling 10-9 in 10 innings in Sunday's finale.

UNCG (28-18, 11-7 SoCon) lost the first two games of their series against VMI, but salvaged a win on Sunday in the finale. The Spartans enter the week in third place in the conference.

The series begins on Friday at 6 p.m. at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. Saturday is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. followed by a 1 p.m. finale on Sunday.

Live statistics and video will be available for the full series at CitadelSports.com.

Quick Hits

• The Bulldogs own a 38-29 overall record against the Spartans, but are 11-17 in Greensboro. Last season, UNCG took two of three games from the Bulldogs at Joe Riley Park.
• Last weekend, The Citadel won its second SoCon series of the year, taking the first two games from ETSU 7-5 on Friday and 4-1 on Saturday.
• Freshman Jeffery Brown made his first career start on Friday against ETSU going 3-for-4 with three runs scored and the game-tying RBI. He started the next two games of the series, finishing 7-for-11 with five runs scored and three RBI to raise his season average to .455.
• On Sunday, Taylor Cothran hit the team's first grand slam of the year, which gave the Bulldogs an 8-7 lead in the eighth inning. The Citadel eventually fell 10-9 in 10 innings despite Cothran's heroics.
• Jonathan Sabo had his third two-homer game of the season on Friday against ETSU. He leads the team with 10 home runs and 28 runs batted in.
• Left-handed pitcher JP Sears was selected the SoCon Pitcher of the Week on Monday, his third weekly award from the conference this season. Sears also earned one of Collegiate Baseball's National Player of the Week awards.
• Sears is the first Bulldog player to receive a SoCon weekly award three times in a single season. He now has five Southern Conference Pitcher of the Week awards in his career.
• The Sumter, South Carolina, native earned the awards when he threw a complete game, two-hitter against ETSU on Saturday. Sears struck out 13 batters in the 4-1 win over the Bucs.
• The performance was the fifth double-digit strikeout game for Sears who now has nine in his career.
• Saturday's start continues an all-time great season for Sears who was named to the prestigious Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List by USA Baseball on April 12. He is one of just 40 players across the country on the list and the only player from the Southern Conference.
• Sears enters the week ranked third in Division I in total strikeouts with 115, fourth in strikeouts per game with 13.10 and 18th in strikeout-to-walk ratio at 6.39.
• Sears is just the 13th pitcher to record 100 strikeouts in a season for The Citadel since 1965, with the last by James Reeves in 2015.
• The left hander is also sixth in the Bulldog record book in career strikeouts with 290. He is just seven short of passing Bulldog pitching coach Britt Reames (296) for fifth on the list.
• As a pitching staff, The Citadel ranks seventh in Division I and first in the SoCon with 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Ben Peden, who started the team's first 37 games, was injured April 23 against Mercer. He remains out indefinitely with Joe Sabatini and Bryce Leasure splitting time at first base in his absence.
• Taylor Cothran led the offense over the weekend against Mercer with three-straight three-hit games. Cothran was moved to the leadoff spot on April 23 for the first time in his career, finishing 3-for-5 at the dish.
• The top of The Citadel lineup finished a combined 10-for-18 in the 8-5 victory over Charleston Southern on April 18. The 1-5 hitters scored and drove in all eight runs for the Bulldogs.
• The Citadel used eight different pitchers in the win over CSU, with seven relievers accounting for the final 8.1 innings of the game.
• William Kinney' extended his streak of consecutive starts to 115 games, dating back to 2015. His streak of starts at shortstop ended at 97 on April 29 at Furman when he was the starting designated hitter for the Bulldogs.
• On April 6, Sears was awarded the Southern Conference Pitcher of the Month award for March after finishing 3-0 with a 1.43 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 37.2 innings pitched.
• The Bulldog southpaw was also selected the SoCon Pitcher of the Week for the second time this season and fourth time of his career on March 27. Sears struck out a career-high 20 batters at home against VMI in a two-hitter on March 24 to earn the award.
• Sears' performance against VMI ties him for the program record for strikeouts in a game and is tied for second all-time in the SoCon. 20 strikeouts is also the highest in a single game this season in Division I.
• Along with his 19 strikeout performance last year at VMI, Sears now has two of the top-six strikeout totals in SoCon history.
• Sears was also selected as one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week, March 24th's Pitcher of the Night by D1Baseball.com, College Sports Madness SoCon Player of the Week and was featured in USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award Gold Standard Performance of the Week poll.
• The Citadel offense exploded for a record 34 runs on Tuesday, Feb. 14 against Winthrop. The Bulldogs also set records for hits (34), RBIs (31), margin of victory (26) and at-bats (56).
• The 34 runs remain the highest single-game total in NCAA Division I this season, topping 32 runs scored by both McNeese and South Alabama.
• The offense had multiple players with career days against Winthrop as five Bulldogs recorded at least four hits, five finished with four or more RBIs and four more scored at least four runs.
• Barrett Charpia drove in nine RBI on a 5-for-8 day at the plate. The senior smacked two home runs, driving in the second most runs by a Bulldog in program history. Charpia's nine RBI are tied for the third most in a single game in Division I this season.
• Charpia was selected the D1baseball.com Player of the Day and was one of four players nominated for the Golden Spikes Gold Standard Performance of the Week.
• Jonathan Sabo also finished 5-for-9 with two home runs against Winthrop. The junior transfer scored six runs and drove in five more.
• Sabo and Taylor Cothran each tied the program record with six runs scored apiece. The last time the feat was accomplished by a Bulldog was in 1998 by Jerry Simmons.
• William Kinney tied The Citadel record with four doubles in a six-hit ball game for the junior. The shortstop became the first Bulldog to hit four doubles in a game since Mark Mitchum did so in 1979. Kinney also posted career highs of six RBI and five runs scored.
• Cothran and J.D. Davis each posted their first career four-hit games against Winthrop. Ben Peden finished 3-for-6 with four runs scored and four RBI.
• Taylor Cothran and Cole Buffington each smacked their first career home runs at Western Carolina. Both home runs were of the solo variety. Buffington hit his on Friday, March 31 while Cothran crushed his first home run on Sunday, April 2.
• Jeffery Brown picked up his first career hit in the ninth inning against South Carolina on March 28, legging out an infield single.
• Will Pillsbury earned his first career win on March 26 vs VMI in a 4-2 victory. The freshman struck out five batters in 5.1 innings of work, allowing just two runs.
• Sears walked his first batter of the season against C of C on March 3 after beginning 2017 with 21 strikeouts in 13.2 innings before allowing his first free pass.
• Sears was selected the SoCon Pitcher of the Week for the first time this year on Feb. 27 after striking out 12 batters in a 4-0 victory over Delaware State.
• Kinney drew a walk-off walk in the bottom of the 10th inning on Saturday, March 18 against Dartmouth in an 8-7 victory. Kinney led the offense with a 3-for-5 day, two RBI, a run scored and a triple.
• 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.
• Charpia hit a walk-off single on Feb. 25 against Delaware State in The Citadel's 6-5 victory.
• Relief pitcher Aaron Lesiak earned the win in relief against his former team on Feb. 27 vs Presbyterian.

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