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Setting the Scene
- SWOSU Baseball will take an eight game winning streak on the road on Tuesday when they travel to face Northeastern State up in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
- This is the first road contest in over three weeks for the Bulldogs and just their fifth of the season
- These two teams met earlier in the season in Weatherford with SWOSU shutting out the Riverhawks by a 6-0 final score
 
The Opponent
Northeastern State (8-7)
- The Riverhawks are 7-4 since facing SWOSU last, but come into Tuesday having lost three of their last four
- Offensively, NSU is hitting .250 as a team led by Jaxon Phipps (.351) and Erick Espinosa (.333)
- On the mound, NSU holds a 3.43 team earned run average collectively
 
The Coaches
SWOSU: Zack Saunders (166-134, 9th season)
- Two-time Great American Conference Coach of the Year, winning the award in 2013 and 2016
- Inducted into the Muskogee Athletic Hall of Fame on October 13, 2016
- Earned his 100th career victory at SWOSU against Northwestern Oklahoma State on April 24, 2015
- Previously served as an assistant at SWOSU for six seasons under former Bulldog coaches Charles Teasley and Scott Selby
- Played collegiately at Kansas State following two seasons at Connors State playing on nationally-ranked junior college teams
 
Northeastern State: Jake Hendrick (57-55, 3rd season)
- Hendrick served as NSU's pitching coach for two years prior to being elevated to head coach
- During his first term as skipper in 2016, he led the RiverHawks to their fourth-straight trip to the postseason
- Was the pitching coach in 2012-13 at Marion Military Institute, a Division I NJCAA member
- Began his coaching career at Stillwater High School as an assistant from 2009-12
 
SWOSU Notes
- The Bulldogs are coming off of a weekend where they scored 67 runs in three games against East Central, notching 20+ runs in all three games of the series
- During SWOSU's eight game winning streak, the offense has averaged 14 runs per game
- Bryan Miranda, leading the team with a .457 average, went 12-for-21 last week with three triples and was responsible for 19 of SWOSU's 82 runs in four games (12 runs, 7 RBI)
- Jason Nichols got back into the groove in the box last week, hitting 12-for-16 in four games last week including a perfect 9-for-9 day in Saturday's doubleheader against ECU in the final day of the series
- Eight players hit .400 or better last week including Brady Burtner (.533) with a team high four doubles and Daniel Richardson (.571) with a team high 12 RBI
- Richardson has now collected all five of his home runs this season during the last seven games
- Jose Laboy got a start against UCO in the midweek and pitched 4.0 scoreless innings while striking out seven Bronchos
- Justin Moreno and Brendan Peitsmeyer also pitched single scoreless innings last week out of the bullpen
- SWOSU's .971 fielding percentage currently leads the Great American Conference
 
Looking Ahead
- The Bulldogs return to Weatherford this weekend when they host Southeastern in another three-game GAC series