Liberty to Square off with Stetson in ASUN Series at Liberty Baseball Stadium

STETSON AT LIBERTY
April 12-14
Liberty Baseball Stadium

Friday – 6 p.m.
Saturday - 4 p.m.
Sunday - 11 a.m.

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Quick Hits
• Liberty hosts defending ASUN champion Stetson for a three-game conference series, this weekend. The series will be the first meeting between the two teams since 1991 and the first-ever in Lynchburg.

• The Flames have won nine of their last 10 games and 16 of their last 20.

• In their first season in the conference, Liberty leads the ASUN standings with a 7-2 record in league play.

• The Flames have posted an 18-2 mark at Liberty Baseball Stadium. Liberty has each of its last five home games.

• Liberty recorded its fifth shutout of 2019, defeating Richmond 7-0 on Tuesday. The Flames are seventh nationally in shutouts.

• The Flames lead the ASUN Conference and are eighth nationally with a 2.89 ERA. The Liberty mound corps also ranks ninth nationally in WHIP (1.16) and seventh in hits allowed per nine innings (6.74).

Let's Talk Shutouts
• The Flames posted their fifth shutout of the season with a 7-0 victory over Richmond on Tuesday. The five shutouts are the most by Liberty in a season since 2015 when they pitched six.
• Liberty leads the ASUN and is seventh in the country in shutouts. Six other teams have recorded six shutouts.
• All five Liberty shutouts have been combined efforts. In the Flames' latest blanking on Tuesday, five pitchers combined to hold Richmond scoreless.
• The Liberty program record for shutouts is 11 in 2012.

Around the Diamond

C Jonathan Embry had a big weekend for the Flames, hitting .400 and blasting two home runs, this past weekend at North Alabama. His first home run came in Liberty's series-opening victory, last Friday. On Sunday, the redshirt junior led off the Flames' 8-5 victory with his fourth home run.
1B Logan Mathieu leads the Flames and is currenlty third in the ASUN with 29 RBI. The sophomore has driven in 14 runs over his last 10 games.
2B Will Wagner has reached base in 12 consecutive games. During the stretch, the sophomore has 14 hits and walked eight times for a .414 on base percentage.
3B Tyler Galazin had two hits and drove in two runs in the Flames' win over Richmond on Tuesday. The senior has hit .320 with runners in scoring position, this season.
SS Cam Locklear had a career day, last Sunday. Locklear hit two home runs, while setting a new career highs for hits (four) and RBI (four) in Liberty's 8-5 victory at North Alabama. It is the second time in his career that the sophomore has hit two home runs in a game. He also accomplished the feat as a freshman in a win at The Citadel on Feb. 16, 2017.
LF Gray Betts has hit .615 with eight hits over his last four contests. During the span, he has posted a .684 on base percentage and scored a team-high six runs. Last Friday at North Alabama, the freshman recorded the first multi-hit game of his career with four hits in the Flames' victory.
CF Jaylen Guy has hit .303 and scored five runs in Liberty's nine ASUN Conference games, this season. Last Friday, the freshman hit his first career home run, a solo shot in the seventh inning of Liberty victory at North Alabama.
RF Brandon Rohrer has hit .439 with 11 RBI and 14 runs scored over his last 10 games. Rohrer, who has the Flames' top batting average for the season, has two or more hits in six games of his last 10 games.
DH Ben Highfill had two hits and two RBI, after coming into the game as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning of the Flames' victory over Richmond, Tuesday.
Right-hander Andrew McInvale enters the weekend tied for the national and ASUN lead in wins with a 7-0 record. McInvale has won each of his last seven starts, posting a 2.15 ERA over that span. The right-hander is third in the ASUN with 60 strikeouts and fourth with a 2.45 ERA.
Right-hander Noah Skirrow enters the weekend second in the ASUN with 61 strikeouts. The sophomore paces the conference with 12.20 strikeouts per nine innings.
Pitcher Garret Price leads the ASUN with a 1.04 ERA over 34 2/3 innings and is currently eighth nationally. In a team-high 15 appearances, the junior has struck out 36 batters and has a WHIP of 0.87. He has held opponents to the second lowest batting average in the ASUN at .174.
Evan Brabrand leads the ASUN and is eighth nationally with eight saves. The right-hander enters the weekend with a 0.33 ERA and 0.93 WHIP over 27 innings.

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