BEAUMONT, Texas - Returning to action quickly for another mid-week matchup, Lamar University (10-22) will head to San Antonio on Tuesday for a non-conference game at the University of Texas - San Antonio (13-19). The Cardinals and Roadrunners, once fierce Southland Conference foes, are meeting for just the fourth time since UTSA left the conference in 2012.

THE LAST TIME OUT - AT SAM HOUSTON STATE - APRIL 5-7

Home runs inflated the score Friday in the series opener between Lamar and Sam Houston State. The Cards briefly led 3-2 in the top of the third before the Bearkats broke open the game in the bottom of the inning. The game went 15-6 in favor of Sam Houston at Don Sanders Stadium.

Battling in both games, Lamar fell just short Saturday in a doubleheader at Sam Houston State. The Cardinals led or were tied for 11 and a half innings of the two games but fell 6-5 in the second game and 8-4 in the finale.

The Cardinals out-hit the Bearkats 15-10 and led by as much as four runs, 4-0, but long balls again proved the difference for Sam Houston State in the first game of the doubleheader with the first homer of the game pulling Sam within one run in the third and a walk-off ending the game, 6-5, in the bottom of the ninth.

UP NEXT - UTSA - APRIL 9

Starters:
LHP Dylan Johnson (0-2, 6.75 ERA) vs. RHP Shane Daughety (1-2, 7.71 ERA)

Series Record
All-Time Series: Lamar leads 28-27
Southland Series: Tied 18-18 (UTSA was a member of the Southland from 1999 through 2012)
At Vincent-Beck Stadium: Lamar leads 15-8
At Roadrunner Field: UTSA leads 16-11
At Neutral Site: UTSA leads 3-2
Last 10 Years: UTSA leads 8-7
Will Davis vs. UTSA: N/A
Jason Marshall vs. Lamar: 1-2
Last Meeting: April 30, 2014 (Lamar wins 3-2 at UTSA)

Jason Marshall's Roadrunners are 13-19 this season including 5-7 in Conference USA action. Marshall is in his seventh season as the head coach of the program, taking over UTSA in its first season out of the Southland, and is 194-181 in that time with a 92-93 record in the C-USA. The Roadrunners are 3-2 against SLC teams so far this season with a win and two losses against McNeese, a win against A&M-Corpus Christi, and a win at Houston Baptist. After playing the Cardinals UTSA will have one more game against HBU and a cross-town rivalry game against the "other" Cardinals of Incarnate Word.

The Roadrunners average 5.8 runs a game with 301 hits this year. 67 of those hits are doubles, 12 are triples, and 16 are home runs. UTSA has 125 walks this year, sixth in the C-USA, and is hitting at a .277 clip. The pitching staff has a team ERA of 5.27 with a 1.94 strikeout-to-walk ratio and an average of 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings with 4.15 walks a game.

Bryan Sturges paces his team with a .340 batting average (11th in the C-USA) and has 13 doubles this year, the 22nd-most in the NCAA. He's got 36 total hits and 18 RBIs. Sturges is joined in the .300 hitting club by Ryan Stacy, Dylan Rock, and Bryan Arias and in the 30+ hits club by Rock (41 hits), Arias (37 hits), and Griffin Paxton (36 hits). Rock leads the team in RBIs with 19 but six Roadrunners have at least 10 runs driven in.

Tuesday starter Shane Daughety has a 7.71 ERA through 25.2 innings of work. He's allowed 33 hits, an average of 1.3 hits per inning, with 22 runs, all of which are earned. He's struck out 18 while walking 12 and is 1-2 in 11 appearances including three starts.

Lamar Quick Hits

• Logan Berlof has been Lamar's best bat in the last 10 games. He has 15 of his 23 hits on the year in the last 10 games and is hitting at a .385 clip. He's scored eight runs and driven in another seven during that time with four walks, a hit-by-pitch, and five strikeouts. He's riding a five-game hit streak and a five-game reached-base streak and was the first honorable mention in this week's Southland Conference Hitter of the Week award.
   
• Robin Adames needs just 26 more hits to capture the LU career record. He has 231 entering Tuesday's game. He also needs just 48 RBIs for the career RBI record and 15 more homers for the career home run record.
   
• JC Correa has wowed at short and at the plate. The junior transfer from Alvin Community College has a .280 batting average, fourth on the team, and leads the team in RBIs with 22. In his last 10 games he has 10 RBIs with 14 hits. He's homered three times and is the toughest on the team to strike out with just one strikeout every 9.4 at-bats. That ranks sixth in the Southland Conference and 117th in the NCAA.
   
• Avery George is fourth in the Southland Conference and 83rd in the NCAA this year with 44 hits so far. He was riding a 20-game hit streak from Feb. 16 through March 22 and tied the school record for the reached-base streak at 32 games.
   
• The Cardinals still have plenty of time to figure out the 2019 season. Nine losses this year have been by two or fewer runs and Lamar is averaging just 1.3 runs per game fewer than its opponents. In its last 10 games Big Red has out-hit its opponents 119 to 94 (almost three more hits a game), and 10 Cardinals have hit .294 or better during that period.