LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (12-7)
vs. ST. EDWARD'S (11-9)
March 10 – 1 p.m.
Lucian Hamilton Field (Austin, Texas)
 
LEADING OFF
Lubbock Christian will try and win its first road series against St. Edward's since 2016 on Sunday, needing a victory in the finale to take the series three games to one. The Chaps are coming off a doubleheader split on Saturday, where their one win came from Chandler Casey, who made his first start of the 2019 season. Casey was helped by a two-homer game from Hill Alexander, his fourth and fifth of the season. The Chaps will start Nathan Dockery on the mound in game four, as the lefty looks for his second win of the year.
 
 
INSIDE THE SERIES NUMBERS
.900 – In 10 opportunities with a runner on third and less than two outs this series, LCU has driven the runner nine times
5 – Hill Alexander reached base five times on Saturday with three hits and a pair of walks, raising his on-base percentage to .448
18 – SEU has 18 hits with runners in scoring position in just 43 at-bats, hitting .419 in those situations
28 – The Chaps hit three more home runs in the doubleheader and now leads the Heartland Conference by 10 in that category with 28
.310 – Lubbock Christian is currently the only Heartland conference team with a team batting average over the .300 mark
17 | LCU hits three more home runs on Saturday, two of which were solo shots. Of their conference-leading 28 home runs this season, 17 have been without runners on base.
8.6 | The Chaps are averaging 8.6 runs per game this series, up from their season average of 6.8 runs per game
 
IN THE POLLS
LCU stayed in the top 10 in one Division II National Baseball Poll this week, holding steady in the Perfect Game Poll. Only two in-region teams are ranked above the Chaps in Texas A&M-Kingsville (9) and Colorado Mesa (1). LCU is not ranked or receiving votes in the national poll for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association but was slotted at No. 8 in the association's South Central Regional Poll.
 
2000 AND COUNTING
Since the inception of LCU's baseball program in 1971, the Chaparrals have been one of the best baseball teams at whatever level they were playing at. Lubbock Christian has played 3,090 games throughout all those years, posting an overall program record of 2,085 wins and 1,009 losses in that time.
 
HOMEGROWN PRODUCTS
Of the 33 players on the Lubbock Christian University baseball team this season, exactly one third (11) played high school baseball in Lubbock. Another three players on the 2019 of LCU's baseball team are from the surrounding area of Lubbock, including Idalou, New Deal and Shallowater.
 
COACHING CONSISTENCY
Lubbock Christian is bringing back the same three main coaches that have been with the team each of the last six seasons. Pitching coach Justin Sundlie, who played catcher at LCU in 2005 and 2006, is the newbie of the group, entering his seventh season with the Chaps, while head coach Nathan Blackwood and hitting coach Bob Fannin have been leading the program for the last 15 seasons. Together, the group has led LCU to a pair of first place finishes in the Heartland Conference, two NCAA South Central Regional appearances and a 227-114 (.667) won-loss record.