This Week in Peacock Baseball... UIU's baseball team is back on the road this weekend for their farthest Northern Sun Conference road trip of the season. The Peacocks, who had a non-conference double header at Lewis rained out on Wednesday, will take on the Marauders of the University of Mary on Saturday and Sunday in a pair of double headers.
Looking in the Rearview... Upper Iowa won two of their six NSIC games this week as they faced off against Augustana and St. Cloud State on the road. UIU picked split with the Vikings and claimed the final game of a four-game set with the Huskies. The Peacocks posted a .253 batting average for the week with 43 hits including 11 doubles and 4 home runs. The pitching staff registered an ERA of 5.98 allowing 34 runs, 29 earned, on 46 hits.
Something about Joe Faber Field... Tyus Adkins threw a masterful two-hit, complete game shutout (3-0) for the Peacocks recording two strikeouts in the final game of the weekend series with St. Cloud State. For the week, Adkins threw 12 innings, including 3 innings of relief against Augie, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits for a 1.50 ERA. The win was his first of the season, but second straight complete game, nine-inning victory at Joe Faber Field in St. Cloud, Minn.
20-Hit Quartet... Four Peacocks have 20 or more hits on the season. Senior
Anthony Calton leads the way with 28 and a .444 batting average with 6 doubles and a triple to slug .571; the UIU leftfielder also owns a .514 on-base percentage this year. Sophomore
Zackary Cain has a .333 average with 20 hits including 5 doubles and has added 3 wins on the hill as for the Peacocks. Senior
Alex George has tallied 25 hits including a team-highs in doubles (7) and homeruns (3) for a .316 batting average and a .519 slugging percentage. George shares the homerun lead with
Jacob Greco and
Luis D. Ravelo-Herrera. Ravelo has 22 hits in the leadoff spot for UIU with a pair of doubles, a triple and his three long balls; the senior shortstop has driven in a team-high 14 baserunners.
Scouting the Marauders... The Marauders are in the midst of a long home stand; U-Mary will play 14 of their next 18 games at home. The team's strength in the early going has been their pitching which has recorded a 5.71 earned run average, which ranks in the middle of the NSIC pitching staffs. Junior Isaac Saad leads U-Mary with a 2.38 ERA. On offense, senior Andrew Beyer leads the team with a .325 batting average and 14 runs scored; he also has seven stolen bases and nine runs batted in. Last week, Sadd, in his third collegiate start, pitched an 11-inning complete game 2-1 victory over Wayne State allowing seven hits and one walk and striking out four. After WSC scored in the second, he pitched nine straight scoreless innings and at one stretch he retired 18 of 19 batters. At the plate, Chris Scott was 6 for 13 with two doubles, 3 RBI and a run scored in five games, while Beyer scored seven times, drove in two runs and stole three bases. Junior Seth Meide was the final standout at the plate going 8 for 20 including a pair of home runs and a double with five runs scored and five rbi.
