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Baseball Travels to Memphis

Panthers face Memphis in a three-game series this weekend

2/22/2018 11:14:00 AM



Game Notes

Eastern Illinois (1-2) at Memphis (2-2)

Friday - Feb. 23 @ 4 pm | Live Stats | Live Video 
Saturday - Feb. 24 @ 2 pm | Live Stats | Live Video 
Sunday - Feb. 25 @ 1 pm | Live Stats | Live Video 

FedEx Park - Memphis, Tenn. (2,000)
318 • 380 • 317

• EIU Rotation
Friday: Alex Stevenson (RHP, 6-0, 165, So) (0-0, 1 G)
Saturday (1): Carson Haws (RHP, 6-1, 220, Jr) (0-0, 1 G)
Sunday: Logan Beaman (LHP, 5-8, 190, Sr) (0-1, 1G)

• Memphis Rotation
Friday: Riley Cabral (RHP, 5-10, 215, Jr) (1-0, 1 G)
Saturday: Jonathan Bowlan (RHP, 6-6, 262, Jr) (0-1, 1 G)
Sunday: Alex Hicks (RHP, 6-4, 218, Jr) (1-0, 1 G)
Sunday: TBA

• Head Coaches
EIU: Jason Anderson (37-76-0, 3rd year)
Memphis: Daron Schoenrock (364-396, 14th year)

The Eastern Illinois baseball team will travel to Memphis for a three-game series against the Tigers this weekend. Memphis enters the weekend sporting a 2-2 record after opening up the 2018 season.

The series is set to begin Friday at 4 p.m., leading into Saturday's mid-series game at 2 p.m., and finally concluding the series will be a 1 p.m. showdown on Sunday.

Logan Beaman leads the Panthers in hitting after the first weekend of the season as the senior is batting (6-for-14). Beaman had a pair of multi-hit games to open up the season at ULM.

Dougie Parks broke out in the third game of the opening series against ULM hitting a three-run homer. Parks totaled six RBIs in the series for the Panthers.

The Panthers will go with their sophomore starting pitcher Alex Stevenson in game one at Memphis on Friday night. Carson Haws will get ball to start the second game of the series on Saturday afternoon. Beaman will make his first start of the season in the series finale on Sunday.

Eastern Illinois is playing in its 112th season of intercollegiate baseball. EIU has an all-time record of 1,753 and 1,552 loses.  After the series against Memphis the Panthers will travel to Belleville, Illinois to take on Lindenwood (Feb. 27).
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