ULM (5-1 overall) vs. Southeastern Louisiana (3-3 overall)
Warhawk Field | Monroe, La.
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ULM Game Notes Southeastern Louisiana Game Notes
MONROE, La. - After picking up a weekend sweep over Grambling, the ULM Warhawks play their first mid-week games of the 2020 season, hosting Southeastern Louisiana for two games, starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday and continuing at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The Warhawks and Lions meet for the 128th time in program history on Tuesday night. ULM leads the all-time series 68-58-1. The Lions have won four of the last five meetings with ULM, including a sweep of last year's mid-week set in Hammond, 10-3 and 7-1. The two teams also met in the season-opening series in 2016 in Hammond, as the Lions won the first two games, 2-0 and 8-2, before ULM won the series finale 6-5. ULM has not hosted Southeastern since the Lions came to Warhawk Field for a three-game weekend series from Feb. 28 to March 2, 2014.
The Warhawks have opened the season 5-1 after sweeping Grambling State over the weekend at Warhawk Field. ULM rolled to a 15-0 win on Friday night before rallying for a 7-6 win on Saturday. On Sunday, ULM jumped out to an 11-0 lead through four innings before Grambling's bats came to life, and the Warhawks held on for a 23-12 win. It marked ULM's first three-game series sweep since April 5-7, 2019, at Georgia State, and their first sweep at Warhawk Field since sweeping Georgia State on May 5 and 6, 2018.
ULM head coach
Michael Federico is in his third season with the Warhawks. He led the team to an 11-win improvement in his first season, and then a four-win improvement in his second season. He is 55-63 overall as the head coach at ULM. Federico is 0-2 against the Lions, with his only meetings against Southeastern coming in the 2019 season.
Southeastern Louisiana is 3-3 on the young season. The Lions picked up a 3-2 win over the Ragin' Cajuns on opening night, but then lost to Louisiana Tech 2-0 on Feb. 15, and lost a re-match with the Cajuns 9-6 on Feb. 18. The Lions took two out of three games over this past weekend, beating Jacksonville 2-1 and 5-4 on Friday and Saturday before dropping Sunday's series finale, 8-0.
Southeastern Louisiana head coach Matt Riser is in his seventh season with the Lions, amassing a 230-137 record. Riser has led the Lions to three NCAA tournament berths in his first six seasons, along with a pair of Southland Conference titles. Riser is 6-3 against ULM.
LEADING OFF
Senior pitcher
Ty Barnes followed up his strong opening night performance with his second combined one-hitter of the season on Friday against Grambling State. Barnes retired the first 14 hitters he faced, and carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning. Barnes tossed seven shutout innings, giving up just one hit with no walks and a career-high eight strikeouts. He is one of four qualifying pitchers in the Sun Belt Conference with a 0.00 ERA, and is joined by Arkansas State's Chandler Coates (14.0) and Troy's Levi Thomas (11.0) as the only three pitchers in the Sun Belt to throw more than 10 innings this season without allowing an earned run. Barnes ranks second in the Sun Belt in opposing batting average at .050, and ranks seventh nationally and seventh in the Sun Belt in hits allowed per nine innings at 1.38.
Offensively, senior outfielder
Ryan Humeniuk leads the Warhawks with a .440 batting average, which ranks fifth in the Sun Belt. Humeniuk picked up two multi-hit games over the weekend, including a career-high four hits, with a double and a triple, along with a career-best four RBIs, three runs scored and two stolen bases. Humeniuk has hit safely in five of six games this season, and has reached base safely in all six games. He has reached base safely in 38 of the last 41 games. He is tied for sixth in the Sun Belt with eight RBIs on the season.
Senior utility player
Andrew Beesley picked up three hits in Sunday's win over Grambling after collecting just one hit over the first five games of the season. The Preseason All-Sun Belt Team selection continues to have one of the top on-base percentages in the Sun Belt, sitting at .538, which ties for fourth in the conference. Beesley has earned 10 free passes, including seven walks and has been hit by a pitch three times.
Junior outfielder and lead-off hitter
Trace Henry is the only Warhawk to hit safely in all six games this season. Henry extended his hitting streak in the eighth inning on Sunday with a triple. Henry is hitting .308 with a double, triple, seven RBIs, eight runs scored, two walks and has been hit by a pitch once. Henry has five stolen bases, which places him in a four-way tie for the Sun Belt Conference lead.
Junior first baseman
Danny DeSimone moved up the lineup from sixth to fourth on Sunday. DeSimone clubbed his second home run of the season on Saturday, a solo shot, to help spark ULM's four-run sixth inning as they took the lead from Grambling. DeSimone has six hits, including a double and the two homers, to go along with nine RBIs and five runs scored. DeSimone, along with teammate
Colby Deaville, is among 14 players tied for the Sun Belt Conference lead with two homers. DeSimone is tied for fourth in the Sun Belt with nine RBIs and is seventh in slugging percentage at .619.
Senior catcher
Logan Wurm had a nine-game hitting streak come to an end on Saturday against Grambling. Wurm was 0-for-3 with an RBI and a stolen base on Saturday. The senior has six hits in his four starts this season, along with five RBIs and three runs scored.
WARHAWK NOTES
ULM has been aggressive on the basepaths early in 2020. The Warhawks are 21-of-23 on stolen base attempts as a team. ULM's is second in NCAA Division I with 3.5 steals per game. ULM's 21 stolen bases tops the Sun Belt Conference with an eight steal advantage over a tie for second between Georgia State and the Ragin' Cajuns. 10 different Warhawks have at least one stolen base on the season, and five of those players have multiple stolen bases. ULM swiped 19 bases in the weekend series vs. Grambling, taking eight bases on Friday night, four more on Saturday, and wrapped up the series on Sunday with seven more steals.
ULM is hitting .320 as a team through six games, which ranks ninth nationally and second in the Sun Belt Conference behind Troy. The Warhawks team on-base percentage of .425 and slugging percentage of .490 also rank second in the league. ULM also ranks second in the Sun Belt in runs scored (65) and RBIs (54). ULM leads the Sun Belt in fewest strikeouts (38) and triples (4).
The Warhawks have scored 65 runs through six games, which ranks them eighth nationally in scoring at 10.8 runs per game. They sit second in the Sun Belt behind Troy's 11.5 runs per game. ULM ranks 12th nationally with the 65 runs scored despite playing just six games.
ULM is seventh in the nation and leads the Sun Belt in triples per game with 0.67. ULM has four triples coming from four different players. The Warhawks smacked three of those triples in Sunday's win over Grambling, with
Ryan Humeniuk,
Trace Henry and
Andrew Beesley reaching third base off a hit.
Colby Deaville tripled in Saturday's win over Grambling.
ULM has outscored its opponents 12-0 in the first inning this season. The Warhawks have scored in the first inning in four of the first six games this season. ULM has outscored its opponents 7-1 in the second inning, adding up to a 19-1 advantage over the first two frames. ULM has scored first in its last five games after falling behind to Southeast Missouri in the season opener.
The Warhawks scored in every inning of Sunday's game vs. Grambling, and scored multiple runs in seven of the eight innings in which they stepped to the plate. The 23 runs against the Tigers marks ULM's first 20-run performance since Feb. 24, 2018, when they defeated Northern Kentucky 21-9. It was the most runs scored by the Warhawks since they tallied 24 at Little Rock on April 3, 2009. Adding in the Warhawks' 15 runs in Friday's victory, and the seven runs in Saturday's come-from-behind win, ULM scored 45 runs over the three-game series, the most in a three-game series since scored 46 runs vs. Middle Tennessee from April 18-20, 2008.
