BEAUMONT, Texas - Hosting another former Southland Conference foe, Lamar University baseball will face the University of Texas-San Antonio on Tuesday night. First pitch between the Cardinals (3-4) and Roadrunners (6-2) is set for 6 p.m.

Lamar vs. UTSA - February 25 at 6 p.m. - Vincent-Beck Stadium

Probable Starters
TBA vs. TBA

Series Record
All-Time Series: Tied 28-28
Lamar vs. UTSA at Vincent-Beck: Lamar leads 14-9 (last meeting - Lamar wins 4-0 on April 17, 2013)
Lamar vs. UTSA at Roadrunner Field: UTSA leads 18-12 (last meeting - UTSA wins 25-2 on April 9, 2019)
Lamar vs. UTSA at Neutral Site: UTSA leads 3-2 (last meeting - UTSA wins 7-6 on May 25, 2007 at the SLC Tournament in Natchitoches, La.)
Last 10 Games: UTSA leads 6-4
Win Streak: UTSA won the last meeting
Last Lamar win: April 30, 2014 (3-2 at UTSA)
Last Matchup: April 9, 2019
Will Davis against UTSA: 1-2
Pat Hallmark against Lamar: 2-1 (all at UIW in 2018)

In his first season at UTSA and his third year as a Division I head baseball coach in San Antonio, Texas, Pat Hallmark has led his new squad, UTSA, to a 6-2 start after two years at crosstown rival and Lamar's SLC foe, Incarnate Word. The Roadrunners swept Quinnipiac on Opening Weekend, lost 6-2 at Texas a day before Lamar played the Longhorns, and then took two games against Toledo and beat Notre Dame before ultimately losing to UIW.

UTSA's pitching staff holds a 3.18 ERA so far this season with a .208 opposing batting average. The Roadrunners are averaging 6.13 runs a game and hitting at a .256 clip.

Individually, Griffin Paxton is the team batting average leader at .333, and Leyton Barry paces the team in on-base percentage and slugging percentage, and has driven in seven RBIs. No advance information exists on probable starters for the pitching staff.

The Last Time Out - at Texas State - February 21-23

Holding off a Texas State University rally in the ninth inning, Lamar University took down the Bobcats on the road, 3-1, on Friday night. The Cardinals scored in the first and ninth inning to take the decision over Texas State.

Coming down to the final pitch, Lamar ran out of gas in the ninth against Texas State on Saturday. The Cardinals fell to the Bobcats 4-3 in the second game of the series.

Sunday's series finale between Lamar University baseball and Texas State University saw a little bit of everything, lasting three hours and 10 minutes with 11 pitchers taking the mound. In the end, Texas State emerged with an 8-7 win over Lamar.

All told, Lamar matched one of the best offenses in the country punch-for-punch, mirroring the Bobcats in total runs (13) and RBIs (12). The Cardinal lineup actually struck out less and was walked more often than Texas State's, and LU's defense had just one error to TXST's three. Six Cardinal pitchers went at least an inning without allowing a run including Friday's starter Trevin Michael, who went six innings and got his first collegiate win while striking out six and walking two.

Lamar Quick Hits

• Lamar returns 672 starts in its lineup in 2020, the most in the Southland Conference. The next closest team, UIW, returns 548, and is followed by A&M-Corpus Christi (540), McNeese (497), Northwestern State (451), New Orleans (426), Nicholls (418), Central Arkansas (362), Houston Baptist (336), SFA (300), Sam Houston (257), SLU (253), and ACU (211).
   
• Three Cardinals are hitting over .300 currently including batting average leader Kelby Weyler (.407). The redshirt sophomore has had at least one hit in every game in 2020, and is tied with Avery George (.393) for the team lead in hits with 11. Weyler, George, and Reese Durand (.320, eight hits) each have five RBIs apiece.
   
• The power bats of Chase Kemp and Anthony Quirion went to work in San Marcos this past weekend, collecting nine hits combined with four RBIs and four runs scored. The corner infield duo are hitting .300 or better since last Friday.
   
• Trevin Michael, Friday's starter, leads the SLC and is 45th in the nation in hits allowed per nine innings, averaging just 2.77 a game.
   
• Chase Kemp is first in the SLC and 15th nationally in total walks this season with nine.
   
• Weyler and George are tied for second in the SLC in total hits this season with 11 apiece.
   
• Lamar is tied for fourth in the nation in total errors with just two this season. That's a significant improvement from 2019 where Lamar had 26 games with two or more errors.
   
• Lamar has had three Coles (Coker, Girouard, and Secrest) on the roster since the 2018 season, and Cole Marler is redshirting with the team in 2020. The Cards also have two Zachs (Sweet and Bravo), two Reec(s)es (Reese Durand and Reece Kemp), two Braxtons (Boudoin and Douthit), two Logans (LeJeune and Berlof), and two Kemps (Reece and Chase).
   
• Lamar was picked to finish 12th in the 13-team Southland Conference by both the coach/SID combined poll and by Perfect Game, and finished 10th in the D1Baseball poll. In 2019 the team predicted to finish in 12th place, Stephen F. Austin, finished sixth instead with a 1-2 mark in the SLC tournament, winning its first game against #3 Southeastern Louisiana before being eliminated in the next two games. Lamar was picked to finish anywhere between fifth and seventh  place by D1Baseball, Perfect Game, and the SLC in 2019.