BEAUMONT, Texas – Looking for revenge and riding a three-game win streak, Lamar University (10-26) will head to Natchitoches, La., on Tuesday for the finale of the three-game non-conference series against Northwestern State University (19-15).
 
The Last Time Out – A&M-Corpus Christi
 
For the first time this season the Cardinals swept a conference opponent, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Big Red outscored the Islanders 32-15 on 39 hits, including a season-high 12 runs in a 12-2 victory Friday, an incredible five innings of one-hit, scoreless baseball by Ryan Erickson in an 11-6 win on Saturday, and an extra-innings, 9-7 win on Sunday.
 
Cole Secrest hit .733 against A&M-Corpus Christi with 11 hits and six RBIs, and Robin Adames had eight RBIs for LU.
 
Lamar vs. Northwestern State
 
Series Record
All-Time Series: Lamar leads 63-52
At Lamar: Lamar leads 33-29
At Northwestern State: Lamar leads 26-21
At Neutral Site: Lamar leads 4-2
Coach Davis against Northwestern State: 1-3
Coach Barbier against Lamar: 3-1
 
Scheduled Starters:
 
RHP Garrett Walker (0-0, 10.50 ERA) vs. RHP Robert Burke (0-2, 4.88 ERA)
 
Since the two teams last met a week ago, Northwestern State has gone 2-1 in a three-game Southland series with Southeastern Louisiana, which puts the Demons at an overall record of 19-15 and 8-7 in Southland play.
 
NSU's formidable infield defense still sits atop the conference in double plays with 39 for the season, an average of 1.15 per game. That average is the fifth-highest in the nation. The Demons are still averaging about five runs per game (10th in the SLC) while allowing 3.58 earned runs a game (fourth in the SLC).
 
David Fry is second on the team in hits (44), on-base percentage (.446), and batting average (.328) and leads in doubles (13) and slugging percentage (.607). He now owns the individual program record for career doubles (61), ranks fourth in career total bases (357), and is four RBIs away from tying for fourth in career RBIs with his head coach Bobby Barbier, currently at 126. His 220 hits are seventh all-time.
 
News and Notes on Lamar



HAVE BATS, WILL TRAVEL
 
Lamar has just six games left in Vincent-Beck Stadium with the vast majority of its remaining games on the road, including a stretch of 12 consecutive away that will start April 24 at LSU and end May 13 at Stephen F. Austin.
 
SECREST HEATING UP
 
Cole Secrest is starting to make the leap. The freshman started his career with a .636 mark (7-of-11) and eight RBI in the first three games he played, then his numbers dropped as teams started scouting him. In the last four games Secrest has returned to his power-hitting ways; he hit .667 last week (12-of-16) with six RBIs and three runs scored. He struck out only twice in that time period.
 
FRESHMEN FORCED INTO SIGNIFICANT ROLES
 
So far this season Lamar's freshmen batters have started 89 times in the lineup for Lamar, 70 more starts than opposing teams' freshmen have against the Cardinals; LU has faced just 19 freshmen all year.