Friday, April 19
Crookston, MN
4:00 PM CT
St. Cloud State
at
University of Minnesota Crookston
Jordan Joseph
#5 Huskies Travel to Crookston for Weekend Series
4/18/2019 1:34:00 PM | Baseball
SCSU looks to collect their 30th win of the season this weekend.
The #5 St. Cloud State baseball team (29-6, 17-4 NSIC) will travel to Crookston, Minn. this weekend to face the Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagles in a three-game series set to be played April 19-20. SCSU and UMC will play a double header starting at 1 PM on Friday, then play a single game starting at 12 noon on Saturday.Â
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SCOUTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES
Minnesota Crookston enters the weekend 20-14 overall and 13-7 in conference play after splitting with Southwest Minnesota State in their midweek series, and taking two of three from U-Mary last weekend. The Golden Eagles have notched notable victories over Augustana, Minnesota State, Concordia-St. Paul and Wayne State.
Reed Hjelle returns as the Golden Eagles' primary offensive threat, boasting a .346 batting average along with team-high's in hits (36), runs scored (31), RBI's (31), slugging percentage (.683) and on-base percentage (.532).
On the mound, Zach Rustad (4-5) leads the Golden Eagles in innings pitched with 47 1/3, while owning a 4.94 ERA through nine starts. Rustad has struck out a team-high of 38 and has walked 24. Jayden Grover and Nate Albrecht have each totaled at least seven starts and over 35 innings, with Grover holding a 4.89 ERA and Albrecht with a 3.86. UMC's closer Dalton Grose leads the conference in saves with eight, while having posted 32 strikeouts through 27 1/3 innings of work over 18 appearances.
NOTABLES
4 Mitch Mallek is four hits away from being the 11th Husky to join the 200 hit club.Â
24 Sheldon Miks is one win shy of becoming the fifth most winningest pitcher in program history.
228.1 Sheldon Miks will join current Husky, Dominic Austing in the top five of all-time innings thrown in program history if he throws three innings this weekend.Â
7 Dominic Austing is now seven strikeouts shy of being the all-time leader in program history.
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SCOUTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES
Minnesota Crookston enters the weekend 20-14 overall and 13-7 in conference play after splitting with Southwest Minnesota State in their midweek series, and taking two of three from U-Mary last weekend. The Golden Eagles have notched notable victories over Augustana, Minnesota State, Concordia-St. Paul and Wayne State.
Reed Hjelle returns as the Golden Eagles' primary offensive threat, boasting a .346 batting average along with team-high's in hits (36), runs scored (31), RBI's (31), slugging percentage (.683) and on-base percentage (.532).
On the mound, Zach Rustad (4-5) leads the Golden Eagles in innings pitched with 47 1/3, while owning a 4.94 ERA through nine starts. Rustad has struck out a team-high of 38 and has walked 24. Jayden Grover and Nate Albrecht have each totaled at least seven starts and over 35 innings, with Grover holding a 4.89 ERA and Albrecht with a 3.86. UMC's closer Dalton Grose leads the conference in saves with eight, while having posted 32 strikeouts through 27 1/3 innings of work over 18 appearances.
NOTABLES
4 Mitch Mallek is four hits away from being the 11th Husky to join the 200 hit club.Â
24 Sheldon Miks is one win shy of becoming the fifth most winningest pitcher in program history.
228.1 Sheldon Miks will join current Husky, Dominic Austing in the top five of all-time innings thrown in program history if he throws three innings this weekend.Â
7 Dominic Austing is now seven strikeouts shy of being the all-time leader in program history.
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