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WARRIORS HEAD TO BATON ROUGE FOR WEEKEND SERIES

WARRIORS HEAD TO BATON ROUGE FOR WEEKEND SERIES
Game 1

Pitching

Win: Teddy Webb (3-3)
Loss: Douglas Rojas (0-1)

Batting

Indian Hills
2B: Daniel Figueroa; Sergio Chavez; Noah Butler
3B: none
HR: none
Baton Rouge
2B: Ethan Menard; Lane Hutchinson
3B: Ethan Menard
HR: none
full stats

Game 2

Pitching

Win: Case Roark (2-1)
Loss: Jack Payne (2-1)

Batting

Indian Hills
2B: Noah Butler
3B: none
HR: none
Baton Rouge
2B: Lane Hutchinson
3B: none
HR: none
full stats
Posted: Mar 10, 2022

Baton Rouge, LA – Indian Hills Baseball continues its early season road trip with a four-game series against Baton Rouge Community College, set to open up Thursday morning in Hammond, LA.

DETAILS

Games 1-2: Thursday, March 10 | 10:00 AM / 12:00 PM | Southern Louisiana University (Hammond, LA) | First pitch weather: 60 degrees, sunny

Games 3-4: Saturday, March 12 | 1:00 PM / 3:00 PM | Pete Goldsby Field (Baton Rouge, LA) | First pitch weather: 48 degrees, breezy

Live Stream: via Baton Rouge

Tickets: vs. Baton Rouge

Indian Hills: Roster | Schedule | News | Stats

Baton Rouge: Roster | Schedule | News | Stats

EARLY SEASON SUCCESS

Indian Hills has opened up the 2022 season with a 3-2 record with all five games coming on the road against top-10 nationally ranked opponents. The Warriors split a four-game series with then-No. 6 Cowley and won its lone contest against now No. 6 Crowder on Tuesday.

  • As a team, the Warriors are batting .301 on the year and currently have seven players batting .333 or better.
  • The Indian Hills pitching staff is averaging 10.61 K/9 as the Warriors have punched out 44 batters thus far.

SIZING UP THE BEARS

  • Baton Rouge enters Thursday's matchup with a 14-16 overall record, including an 8-10 mark at home. The 30 games played so far are the most in the nation.
  • The Bears dropped a pair of games to Jones College on Wednesday night, falling to the Bobcats 3-1 and 9-3 in Baton Rouge.
  • As a team, the Bears are hitting .269 on the season and lead the NJCAA with 105 stolen bases and rank second nationally with 60 hit by pitches.
  • Ethan Menard is leading the charge with 28 hits and four home runs while Ethan Prescott has posted a 3-0 record on the mound with a 2.00 ERA.

WHO'S HOT

  • Sophomore Jack Payne was tapped as this week's NJCAA National Pitcher of the Week as well as the ICCAC Athlete of the Week. Payne is 2-0 on the year with a 0.00 ERA and has struck out seven batters in 4.2 innings of work.
  • Freshman Daniel Figueroa has gotten off to a dominant start to his collegiate career, going 9-19 (.474) in five games at the plate. The starting centerfielder has collected three doubles, six runs, and six stolen bases to open up the year.
  • Sergio Chavez homered twice against Cowley and is batting .429 on the year.

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