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THIS WEEK - The Southwest Minnesota State University baseball team (17-14, 8-7 NSIC) opens a six-game homestand this Friday and Saturday with a four-game Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference series versus Augustana College (27-10, 17-4 NSIC) at Alumni Field. Friday's doubleheader is set to begin at 1:30 p.m., while Saturday's doubleheader will start at 12 p.m. SMSU begins the weekend seventh in the NSIC standings, while Augustana is in third place.

SERIES HISTORY - Augustana leads the all-time series versus Southwest Minnesota State 44-39 ... SMSU leads 20-14 in games played in Marshall. Augustana leads the series 9-6 since 2010, including winning three of four last season in Sioux Falls, S.D. SMSU head coach Paul Blanchard is 24-19 all-time versus Augustana.

LEADING OFF - SMSU is batting .281 with 19 home runs and averaging 5.2 runs per game ... SMSU pitching has a 4.57 ERA with 173 strikeouts in 242 innings with opponents batting .286 ... SMSU has outscored its opponents 24-9 in the first inning ... SMSU is 15-1 when leading after six innings ... Sam Haas' walk-off double vs. Winona State was SMSU's second walk-off win (Patrick Rients home run vs. Missouri Western) this season ... Mitch Wurm has tossed back-to-back shutouts … Austin Stubbs connected on his first career home run vs. Wayne State on April 13 … Rients leads the team with eight home runs and is also the team leader in batting average (.369), hits (41) and RBIs (26) ... Ben Korger leads the team with 25 runs scored ... Jon Ellis lead the team lead with 10 doubles ... Korger leads the team with seven stolen bases ... Jordon Kontz has a team-high 13 multi-hit games ... Rients has a team-leading eight multi-RBI games ... Kontz drilled his first career home run on April 6 vs. Minnesota Duluth ... Jimmy Callahan tossed a nine-inning shutout vs. Minnesota Duluth (April 5) ... Wurm tossed a seven-inning three-hit shutout vs. Minnesota Duluth (April 6) and a four-hit shutout vs. Wayne State (April 12) ... Joe Axelson recorded a career-high nine strikeouts vs. Wayne State (April 12) ... Steven Wehr tossed his first career complete game in a 4-2 victory over Bemidji State (March 12) ... Kontz ranks tied for third in school history in hit by pitches with 34 ... Korger ranks sixth in program history with 315 assists … Rients had a team-high 11-game hitting streak (Feb. 15-March 12) ... Ellis was named NSIC Player of the Week on Feb. 18 ... Axelson was named NSIC Pitcher of the Week on March 17 ... Rients was named Player of the Week on April 15 … SMSU's three-game sweep of Wayne State was the program's first of three or more games versus WSC in program history … SMSU has beaten a pair of ranked teams this season, including No. 17 Missouri Western State on Feb. 15 and No. 2 Minnesota State on March 21 ... SMSU's win over MSU was the program's first since 2009, snapping an 18-game losing streak ... SMSU was picked to finish 10th in the NSIC preseason coaches' poll ... SMSU's games on April 9 were the first played in Marshall since April 29, 2012, snapping a streak of 69 consecutive games played away from Marshall.