NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS – McNeese baseball (23-22, 11-13) travels to Stephen F. Austin (24-22, 12-12) for its final road conference series of the season. Due to anticipated weather in the area, the series has been adjusted to a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 3 p.m., with the finale set for Sunday at 2 p.m. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+.

The Cowboys are coming off a 4-2 midweek loss at Houston on Wednesday. McNeese recorded seven hits in the game and was led offensively by Easton Dowell, who went 2-for-4 with a double and a single. Isaiah Keller's two-run home run in the ninth accounted for the Cowboys' only runs.

The Lumberjacks are coming off a 5-2 midweek win over Houston on Tuesday. SFA recorded 11 hits in the game, with Cermodrick Bland's triple in the second inning marking its only extra-base hit. The Lumberjacks dropped last weekend's conference series at Northwestern State, losing two of three games and marking their second straight conference series loss.

Series Information: at Stephen F. Austin

• Location: Nacogdoches, Texas 
• Last 5 Meetings: 2-3
• Last Meeting: May 4, 2025, | SFA, 10-3 at McNeese

Records:

• McNeese (23-22, 11-13)
• Stephen F. Austin (24-22, 12-12)

 
Gameday Notebook:

• Cowboys a midweek 4-2 loss at Houston
• Easton Dowell went 2-for-4 at Houston with a double and single
• Garett Blanchard picked up the loss in Houston to move to 2-3 on the season
• Connor Achee picked up his second win on the season in game two of the series against UTRGV moving to 2-4 overall
• Eric Nachtsheim picked up the two losses on the weekend pitching in relief to move to 5-3 on the season
• With increasing his strikeout total to 96, Eric Nachtsheim sits at 7th place in program history for strikeouts in a season,
• Korey Cooper hit his second home run on the season in game one against UTRGV while going 2 for three at the plate with 4 RBIs.
• Connor Walker hit his third double on the season against UTRGV in game three of the weekend.
• Danny Barbero his first triple of the season against the Vaqueros in game one
• Matt Stancliff has now 10 doubles on the season after hitting three over the weekend and two in one game
• Marcus Heusohn hit his 12th double of the season and leads the team in doubles.
• Matt Stancliff hit his seventh home run of the season in Saturday's win against UTRGV
• Isaiah Keller hit two home runs in Sunday's game against UTRGV and one against Houston to bring his season total to 6
• DJ Pinkerton hit his 10th double on the season in Saturday's win over UTRGV. 
• Danny Barbero leads the team with 14 multi-hit games this season as well as 12 multiple RBI games 13 on the season
• Matt Stancliff leads the team in multiple run games with 13 on the season
• Danny Barbero and Matt Stancliff lead the team in home runs with seven.
• DJ Pinkerton will enter Wednesday's game on an eight-game hitting streak
• Easton Dowell will enter Wednesday's game with a reached safely and reached base streak of 11.
• Matt Stancliff leads the team in stolen bases with being 21 for 21 on the season
• Nachtsheim leads the pitching staff in strikeouts on the season with 96 in his 15 appearances.
• Cowboy pitching staff has recorded 444 strikeouts in 304.2 innings pitched this season.
• The pitching staff is now 75 strikeouts away from tying the record for strikeouts in a season set back in 2022 and 76 strikeouts away from setting a new record.
• 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 home runs 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.