LAKE CHARLES – McNeese baseball continues its four-game homestead as they return to league play to host Houston Christian in a three-games series beginning on Friday. Due to weather concerns the times for the series has been updated to a double header on Friday beginning at 2 p.m. with game two to follow 45 minutes after the conclusion of game one. Saturdays game is still scheduled for a 2 p.m. first pitch.
 
 The Cowboys (7-6, 2-1) are coming off two midweek victories over Southern and LSU-Alexandria where the offense sparked producing 26 runs off 19 hits in the two games. Starting pitchers in the midweeks had stellar outings with Jairus Miller going 4 innings giving up one run on three hits while striking out five to pick up the win to move to 2-0 on the year and Paul Coppinger tossing three innings giving up one run off one hit while striking out five to pick up his first win of the season.
 
McNeese second baseman, Matt Stancliff, was named Southland Conference hitter of the week earlier today after his stellar performance at the plate on last Friday night going a perfect 5-for-5 and just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. He finished last week batting .500 while tallying one double and home run with five RBI's.
 
Houston Christian (6-7, 2-1) is coming off a conference opening series victory over Incarnate Word as they took two out of the three games there, while dropping their lone midweek match up to #3 Texas 16-3 in seven inning Tuesday night.
 
Series Information: vs Houston Christian

• Location: Joe Miller Ballpark | Lake Charles, LA 
• Last 5 Meetings: 2-3
• Last Meeting: March 9,2025 | McNeese, 6-4 in Houston

Records:

• McNeese (7-6, 2-1)
• Houston Christian (6-7, 2-1)

Gameday Notebook:

• Cowboys dropped two out of the three games last season in Houston
• Last time the Cowboys lost to the Huskies at home was May 11, 2024, by a score of 9-7
• Coming into the game with a 2-5 record at home
• Coming off two midweek wins over Southern and LSU-Alexandria
• McNeese scored 26 runs between the two games, with 15 of the runs coming after the fifth inning
• Pitching staff limited opponents to just 11 combined hits through the two games while combing to have struck out 18 batters
• Jairus Miller picked up his second win on the season against Southern to move to 2-0 on the year
• Paul Coppinger picked up his first win on the season against LSU-A to move to 1-1 on the year
• Elliot Burrows had two quality innings of relief against LSU-A recording a career high five strikeouts.
• Eric Nachtsheim made his first career start last Saturday at Nicholls
• Hayden Stringfellow will enter the weekend on a three-game hitting streak.
• Eric Nachsteim leads the pitching staff in strikeouts on the season with 23 recorded in four appearances.
• Hayden Stringfellow has a reached base streak of eight and a reached safely streak of eight.
• DJ Pinkerton leads the team in batting average hitting .398 with seven hits in 18 at bats with three doubles and six RBI's.
• Matt Stancliff is second on the team in RBI's with 11 on the season.
• Danny Barbero leads the team in home runs with three on the season.
• Matt Stancliff leads the Cowboys with 11 stolen bases
• As a team the Cowboys were 6 for 6 in stolen bases against Southern

• The Cowboys offense accounted for a total of 19 hits, 5 doubles, one tripled, one home run and 23 RBI's in their midweek matchups versus Southern and LSU-Alexandria.
• The Cowboys return three of their top four hitters from the 2025 campaign, highlighted by Easton Dowell, who led the team with a .369 batting average. Marcus Heusohn also returns after posting a .327 average and 15 doubles, the third-most on the team, while Larry Edwards Jr. hit .316 and drove in a team-high 47 runs.
• Simon Larranaga returns to the Cowboys after leading them last season in homeruns with 12 on the year.
• Cooper Golden returns as the lone weekend starter from last season after compiling a 3-3 record and 4.71 ERA in 14 starts and 15 appearances. 
• Cowboys will play 32 home games this season.
• Head Coach, Justin Hill is entering his 13^th season at the helm of the program and is the school's all-time winningest coach with a 365-284 overall record and 180-143 conference record.
• Cowboys return 20 players from last year's team, as well as welcome 21 newcomers to the roster.
• The 21 newcomers for the Cowboys hail from Bossier Parish CC (5), Navarro College (3), Rose State College, LSU-E, National Park College, Hill College, Butler, UNLV, Tyler Juco (2), Delgado CC, Central Missouri, Mississippi College, UT Tyler, and High School (2).
• Three of the Cowboys' opponents this season advanced to the NCAA Regionals last year – Kansas, Houston Christian, and LSU, who won the College World Series against Coastal Carolina.