The University of Southern Indiana baseball team hits the road for a three-game series at Quincy University March 17-19 in Quincy, Illinois, this week. The start times for the three-game set are 3 p.m. Friday and noon for the Saturday and Sunday contests. Coverage of the Screaming Eagles in 2017 can be found on GoUSIEagles.com.
The next USI home game is slated for March 22 when the Eagles host the University of Missouri-St. Louis for a 6 p.m. game at the USI Baseball Field.
SCREAMING EAGLES BASEBALL NOTES:
USI struggles through 1-3 week. The Screaming Eagles (4-8) struggled through a 1-3 week, dropping a neutral site game with Young Harris College and two of three home games versus Drury University.  Junior leftfielder Drake McNamara was USI’s top hitter last week, batting .429 (6-14) with four runs scored, five RBIs, two doubles, and a pair of home runs, while junior utility player Nick Gobert followed by batting .400 with two runs scored, a double, and three RBIs.
Season hitting leaders. Junior utility player Nathan Kuester leads the Eagles in hitting with a .367 batting average and two home runs. He also is second on the team with 10 RBIs behind junior second baseman Joe Redburn‘s team-best 11 runs driven in.
Season pitching leaders. Sophomore right-hander Austin Krizan leads the USI hurlers with a 2.03 ERA in five games out of the bullpen. Junior starting right-hander Kyle Griffin has recorded a team best 22 strike outs in 17 innings of work, while four different pitchers have one of the Eagles’ victories this spring.
Archuleta at USI. USI Head Coach Tracy Archuleta is USI’s all-time winningest coach with a record of 382-200 (.656) in nine-plus seasons and is 530-324 (.621) in 14-plus seasons all-time as a head coach. He has been named the ABCA Division II Coach of the Year twice (2010 and 2014) after leading the Screaming Eagles to a pair of national championships and the ABCA Division II Midwest Region Coach of the Year after leading USI to the regional crown in 2016. Archuleta also has earned a pair of GLVC Coach of the Year awards (2011 and 2014) at USI.
USI vs. Quincy. USI trails in the all-time series with Quincy, 39-34, after going 1-3 versus the Hawks in 2016. The Eagles started 2016 with three-straight defeats at the hands of the Hawks (7-4, 8-4 in the regular season; 12-4 GLVC Tournament) before posting a victory in the NCAA II Midwest Regional semifinals (9-5). USI holds a one game lead in the series since 2007, 12-11.
USI vs. UMSL. The Eagles hold a 50-42 lead in the all-time series with the Tritons of UMSL after the programs split a pair of regular season games last year (UMLS 8-1; USI 10-1). USI also holds a 15-7 lead in the all-time series since 2007.
