Baseball Travels To Alabama State Tuesday

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Samford University baseball team (3-0, 0-0 SoCon) will play its first road game of the 2022 season when the Bulldogs travel to Montgomery to take on the Alabama State Hornets (1-2, 0-0 SWAC) Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. at the Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Complex.

Samford and Alabama State will be meeting for the 15th time, with Samford holding a 10-4 series lead. The teams met twice last season, with Alabama State winning both contests. The Hornets took the first game at Joe Lee Griffin Field, 11-9. ASU then took the contest in Montgomery by a score of 11-3 over Samford.

Tuesday night's game is the first of 12 games against in-state opponents on Samford's 2022 schedule. The Bulldogs will play two games each against ASU, Jacksonville State, Troy, Auburn, Alabama and UAB.

Samford enters Tuesday night's game at Alabama State with a record of 3-0 after sweeping three games from Arkansas State over the weekend. The Bulldogs took the games by scores of 9-8, 11-4 and 11-0.

Maurice Hampton Jr. had a team-high .600 batting average (6-of-10) over the weekend with a triple, a home run and four RBI.

Towns King had a huge weekend, hitting a home run in each game of the series. For the weekend, he hit .455 (5-of-11) with a double, three home runs and a team-high seven RBI.

Alabama State comes into the game with a mark of 1-2. The Hornets fell to Southern, 7-6 in 10 innings, defeated Florida A&M, 9-6 and then dropped a 10-0 decision to New Orleans.

Chris Lewis led the Hornets with a .500 average (5-of-10). Angel Jimenez hit .429 (3-of-7) with a home run and four RBI in the Hornets' three games over the weekend.

Samford was picked to finish third by the media and sixth by the coaches in the Southern Conference's preseason polls.

Two Bulldogs received preseason honors from the Southern Conference coaches. Third baseman Will David was named first team preseason All-SoCon, while catcher Kaden Dreier earned second team All-SoCon honors.

Samford is scheduled to start freshman right-handed pitcher Will Lynch in his collegiate debut Tuesday night at Alabama State.

Alabama State has not named a starter for Tuesday's game yet.

UP NEXT

Samford will play a three-game series at Florida State this weekend. The teams are set to play Friday at 5 p.m. (CT), Saturday at 1 p.m. (CT) and Sunday at 12 p.m. (CT) from Tallahassee, Fla.

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Will David

Kaden Dreier

Maurice Hampton Jr.

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