BATON ROUGE, LA – The Southern University's baseball team welcomes the McNeese State Cowboys on Wednesday for their home opener with the first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.
 
Southern (4-3) is coming off a week in which they went 1-3. The Jaguars fell to No. 1 LSU in the midweek matchup, 18-4. They finished 1-3 at the Andre Dawson Classic over the weekend, falling to Florida A&M 12-6 and Alabama State 7-5 before bouncing back to defeat Alabama A&M 9-7.
 
McNeese (3-4) leads the overall series with Southern, 22-15-1, and the Cowboys have won three straight, including both last season, 9-7 in Lake Charles and 7-3 in Baton Rouge. Southern last defeated McNeese in 2015 in Lake Charles and last home win was in 2014.
 
The Jaguars are led at the plate by Khyle Radcliffe with a .421 batting average and team leading seven RBIs. Jaylen Armstrong is batting .419 with four doubles and two home runs, followed by Quincy Smith II at .385. Hunter Tabb (.321), Jah'li Hendricks (.304) and JJ Rollon (.300) are the other Jaguar batters over .300 with 10 or more at bats.
 
Antoine Harris was last week's midweek starter against LSU. In total, 13 Jaguar pitchers have seen action in games so far this season.
 
The Cowboys are coming off a midweek loss to Sam Houston State, 18-6, and weekend series win at UT Arlington where they won the first two games by scores of 10-4 and 12-8 before dropping Sunday's finale 12-6.
  
Individually, Cooper Hext leads the squad with a .333 batting average, followed by Payton Harden who is hitting .308 and Brad Burckel at .300. Hext leads the team with two home runs while Josh Leslie tops the squad with seven runs batted in.



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