Kent State Travels to Penn State on Wednesday
4/26/2016 3:56:00 PM | Baseball
Baseball (30-10) will head to Penn State (24-17) on Wednesday night for a 6:30 p.m. matchup.
COVERAGE
• A live broadcast will be aired on Golden Flashes iHeart Radio
• Live stats will be available at gopsusports.com
THE MATCHUP
• Kent State and Penn State are an even 8-8 all-time
• Last Wednesday, the Golden Flashes beat the Nittany Lions at home 10-9
• In 2015, the two teams split the series. Kent State won 9-7 on the road then lost 15-5 at home
• The Flashes took the only meeting in 2014, a 4-1 contest at home
• Penn State is coming off a weekend series at Rutgers where they lost 5-0 and 6-4 then won 7-5
• They are hitting .269 as a team and have a combined ERA of 3.42
POWER SURGE
• With 32 homeruns already this season, the Flashes are just five off their total from last year
• The team is also just ten RBI away from matching last year's total and needs 19 runs to match 2015's final of 281
• Conner Simonetti led the team with 11 bombs last year and already has ten this year. Dylan Rosa leads the team with 11 heading into Wednesday's game
RECORD UPDATES
• Zarley Zalewski is 9th all-time in career hits at Kent State
• Alex Miklos is tied for the career lead in triples and is 7th all-time in stolen bases
• After the past weekend, Lauer is 3rd in career strikeouts, 8th in innings pitched and tied for 8th with 20 career wins
• Zach Willeman is 4th at Kent State with 17 career saves
PINK OUT THE PARK
• Kent State asks fans to wear pink on Sunday, May 8 as we try to pink out the park for Mother's Day and breast cancer awareness
• Members of the KSU gymnastics team will be selling pink shirts at the baseball games this Saturday and Sunday
• Long and short sleeve tees are available for $12 and $10
• Cash or check only will be accepted
• Buy a pink shirt this weekend and be sure to wear it to the game on May 8
MAC STANDINGS
• Kent State currently leads the conference with a winning percentage of .800
• Miami sits in second place at .750 while Ball State is in third at .667
• Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan are the only other teams with win percentages at or above .500
• The regular season champion will be decided, as usual, by win percentage and not wins due to the loss of Akron's program and discrepancy of games played
• The Golden Flashes have nine conference games left on the schedule, with six set to by played at Schoonover Stadium
