Baseball Aces ready for long-awaited homecoming beginning with Murray State Tuesday

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After spending nearly a month on the road, the University of Evansville baseball team looks to make the most of nearly a month-long home stand, beginning against Murray State at Charles Braun Stadium Tuesday night.


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The Purple Aces (6-19) are coming off a tough first weekend of Missouri Valley Conference play, as they were dropped three straight to Missouri State. Before the trip to Springfield, UE came up on the wrong end of an 11-9 slugfest to the Racers at Murray State’s Reagan Field last Wednesday evening.

As for Murray State (16-14), they followed up their victory over the Aces with an 8-5 win over Harris Stowe last Friday.

University of Evansville head coach Wes Carroll will send out junior left hander Alex Weigand to the will to face the Racers. Murray State will counter with a southpaw of their own, with sophomore Luke Brown will toe the rubber Tuesday night.

First pitch from Braun Stadium is at 6 p.m. The game will be available on the Valley on ESPN 3