2017 DII AIRHOGS CLASSIC
No.6 LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (1-0) vs. MISSOURI WESTERN STATE (0-2)
Friday, February 3 - 7:00 PM                                                      
The Ballpark in Grand Prairie / AirHogs Stadium (Grand Prairie, Texas)
Radio: None
All-Time Series: LCU leads 0-0
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RANKINGS
LCU: No. 6 (Perfect Game), No.20 (NCBWA), No. 39 (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper)
MWSU: Unranked
 
PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
LCU – Christian Marquez (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
MWSU – TBA (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
 
LCU opened their season on Thursday night in a game that ended Friday morning, as Lubbock Christian opened their season with a 6-5 win in 12 innings. The game was originally scheduled for 7 p.m., but did not start until 9:30 p.m. The Chaps have the same time slot Friday, as they face Missouri Western State.
 
THROWBACK TO THURSDAY
An opening game starting nearly three hours late and ending at 12:35 a.m. was bound to include some ups and downs. Fortunately for No.6 Lubbock Christian University, it was Brent Stewart reaching on an error and scoring on an error in the bottom of the 12th inning for a walk-off 6-5 win over East Central (Okla.) to open the 2017 season at Div. II AirHogs Classic at AirHogs Stadium. LCU improved to 11-3 all-time under head coach Nathan Blackwood in season opener.
 
ON THE MARQ
Christian Marquez is scheduled to make his LCU debut on the mound. He went 3-1 in 2.1 relief innings at Louisiana Tech last season. He is one of two Chaps transferring in this season from a NCAA Division I program (Caleb Koedyker is the other).
   
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MISSOURI WESTERN STATE
-The Griffons are coming off a 38-20 season in 2016. They went 4-5 in neutral site play and 26-13 in the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
-MWSU is preseason picked third in the MIAA Preseason Poll.
- The Griffons opened their season Thursday with a 5-4 loss to Southern Arkansas and a 15-5 loss to Oklahoma Christian.
-MWSU has four games scheduled in Grand Prairie.  They will play three Heartland Conference schools, as they will face Newman in addition to playing LCU and OC.
- David Glaude was named 2017 preseason First-Team All-America by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America (NCBWA) and as a preseason All-Central Region team member. Last season, Glaude was a second-team All-American; first-team All-region by the NCBWA and ABCA/Rawlings, first team All-MIAA and All-Canadian College Team.
 
HISTORY WITH MISSOURI WESTERN STATE
LCU and MWSU have never met.