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THIS WEEK - The Southwest Minnesota State University baseball team (17-18, 8-11 NSIC) will host Concordia-St. Paul (19-11, 11-9 NSIC) in a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference doubleheader on Tuesday at Alumni Field with first pitch slated for 1:30 p.m. The series was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but due to rain in the forecast, the games were moved up one day. SMSU begins the week ninth in the NSIC standings, while CU is in seventh place.

SERIES HISTORY - Concordia-St. Paul leads the all-time series versus Southwest Minnesota State 19-18 ... this will be just the second time - and first since 2000 - that CU has played in Marshall ... SMSU defeated CU twice during the 2000 season at Legion Field in Marshall ... the two teams split a non-conference twinbill earlier this season in Tucson, Ariz., with SMSU winning 9-4, before CU won game two 5-4 ... CU leads the series 8-5 since the 2012 season ... SMSU head coach Paul Blanchard is 14-19 all-time versus CU.

LEADING OFF - SMSU is batting .277 with 27 home runs and averaging 5.1 runs per game ... SMSU pitching has a 5.46 ERA with 194 strikeouts in 272 innings with opponents batting .304 ... SMSU has outscored its opponents 31-11 in the first inning ... SMSU is 15-1 when leading after six innings ... after winning five straight games, SMSU is currently on a season-long five-game losing streak ... Patrick Rients tied school single-game record with three home runs vs. Augustana on April 19 ... Rients and Gary Schleper (vs. Austin College, 1986) are the only two players in program history to hit three in a game ...  Austin Stubbs hit three home runs in a doubleheader at Augustana (April 18) … Stubbs had a team-high 13-game hitting streak snapped last Saturday in game one ... Rients leads the team with 12 home runs and is also the team leader in hits (45) and RBIs (34) ... Ben Korger leads the team with 25 runs scored ... Jon Ellis lead the team lead with 11 doubles ... Korger leads the team with seven stolen bases ... Jordon Kontz has a team-high 15 multi-hit games ... Rients has a team-leading 10 multi-RB 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) ... Mitch 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.