Baseball Opens Valley Season Hosting Evansville

Off to a 12-7 start in the non-conference season, the Braves will host Evansville in a 3-game weekend series at Dozer Park to start league play

Bradley Series Notes Packet

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Baseball 3/28/2019 3:13:00 PM

Evansville Purple Aces (11-9, 0-0 MVC) at Bradley Braves (12-7, 0-0 MVC) \| Peoria, IL \| Dozer Park
Date	Time (CT)	Bradley Probable Pitcher	Video Stream	Live Stats
Friday, March 29	11:00 a.m.**	Mitch Janssen, Sr., RHP (1-0, 1.82 ERA)	---	Live Stats
Saturday, March 30	2:00 p.m.	Brooks Gosswein, So., LHP (2-1, 2.83 ERA)	ESPN3	Live Stats
Sunday, March 31	1:00 p.m.	Sam Lund, Sr., RHP (1-3, 4.88 ERA)	ESPN3	Live Stats

** - New start time announced Thursday

TICKETS
General Admission: $6 adults; $4 youth (K-12); FREE Bradley University students, faculty and staff, Braves Club (>Bronze), Little Braves Club, active military and immediate family
Suites Access: $12/person

MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE OPENER
•   Bradley and Evansville will open their Missouri Valley Conference seasons this weekend by playing a 3-game series at Dozer Park.
•   The series against the Purple Aces will be Bradley's sixth multiple-game set against an opponent this season ... the Braves (3-1-1 in the series scenarios) have won three 3-game series, 2-games-to-1; lost one series at UNLV, 2-games-to-1; and split a doubleheader at Middle Tennessee State.
•   The Braves have not opened league play in home in March since taking 2-of-3 games from Southern Illinois March 27-29, 2015 at Dozer Park.

AND NOW A PARADE OF HOME GAMES
•   Bradley opened the season by playing its first 18 games away from home, before hosting MacMurray in Wednesday night's Dozer Park season debut.
•   The 7-1 victory against the Highlanders started a 9-game home stand.
•   The Braves will play 12 of their next 13 games at Dozer Park and all of their scheduled 21 home games for the season will be packed into a 30-game stretch ending May 12 against Illinois State.

SERIES HISTORY
Games 97-99: Evansville leads 53-43 overall, 22-19 at BU
•   This weekend's 3-game series represents games 97-98 and 99 in the all-time series between Bradley and Evansville, which dates back to a non-conference doubleheader March 20, 1981 at Evansville.
•   The Purple Aces maintain a 53-43 lead in the all-time series, including a 49-37 edge as Missouri Valley Conference rivals since Evansville joined the league for the 1995 baseball season.
•   Evansville is 22-19 all-time against the Braves in Peoria, though Bradley maintains a slight, 13-12, edge in games played at Dozer Park.
•   In his 11th year as Bradley head coach, Elvis Dominguez is 14-19 against the Purple Aces.

SERIES WIN STREAK
•   Bradley swept last year's 3-game series at Evansville April 13-15, marking the fifth time the Braves have won three consecutive games against the Purple Aces.
•   As the teams prepare for Friday's series opener, Bradley has never won four consecutive games against Evansville.
3-Game Win Series Streaks 4th Game
3/20/81-3/15/85 L, 4-2, 3/15/85 at UE-2
2/29/92-4/1/95 L, 8-1, 4/1/95 at BU-2
3/29-3/30/03 L, 8-3, 5/1/04 at UE-1
5/24/06-5/12/07 L, 11-8, 5/13/07 at BU
4/13-4/15/08 Friday at Bradley

LOOKING AHEAD
•   Following the weekend series against Evansville, Bradley will continue its 9-game home stand by hosting in-state rivals Western Illinois Tuesday and SIU Edwardsville Wednesday, both 6 p.m. starts at Dozer Park.
•   SIUE is led by former Bradley associate head coach Sean Lyons, now in his third year with the Cougars.

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Players Mentioned

#24 Brooks Gosswein: LHP; 6' 2"; Sophomore; L/L

#21 Mitch Janssen: RHP; 6' 2"; Senior; R/R

#19 Sam Lund: RHP; 6' 2"; Redshirt Senior; R/R

Players Mentioned

#24 Brooks Gosswein
: 6' 2"; Sophomore; L/L
: LHP

#21 Mitch Janssen
: 6' 2"; Senior; R/R
: RHP

#19 Sam Lund
: 6' 2"; Redshirt Senior; R/R
: RHP

Baseball Opens Valley Season Hosting Evansville

Off to a 12-7 start in the non-conference season, the Braves will host Evansville in a 3-game weekend series at Dozer Park to start league play

Players Mentioned

#24 Brooks Gosswein

#21 Mitch Janssen

#19 Sam Lund

Players Mentioned

#24 Brooks Gosswein

#21 Mitch Janssen

#19 Sam Lund