GRAMBLING – McNeese baseball (16-16, 7-8) closes out their road stand on Tuesday when they travel to Grambling (11-19, 8-4) for a midweek matchup at 6p.m. before they return home to take on Dillard on Wednesday with first pitch at 3 p.m.
The Cowboys are coming off a weekend conference series loss at New Orleans where two of the three games went into extra innings with one going eleven and one going thirteen. McNeese offense accounted for 35 hits, three home runs, and one double on the weekend.
Grambling enters the week coming off a SWAC series win over Jackson State taking two wins out of the three games at home. The Tigers will continue their home stand after the midweek as they host Prairie View A&M in a conference series.
Series Information: at Grambling
- Location: Grambling, Louisiana
- Last 5 Meetings: 5-0
- Last Meeting: May 9,2015 | McN, 7-2 at home
Records:
- McNeese (16-16, 7-8)
- Grambling (11-19, 8-4)
Gameday Notebook:
- First matchup between the two programs since the 2015 season when Grambling came to Lake Charles for a three-game series
- Hayden Stringfellow hit a homer in game one against NOLA
- Simon Larranaga hit a homer in game three against NOLA
- Connor Schneider hit a homer in game three against NOLA
- Eric Nachtsheim picked up his fourth win on the season against NOLA in relief to move to 4-1 on the season
- Bryce Fontenot will enter the game on a six-game hitting streak
- Matt Stancliff will enter the game with a reached base streak and reached safely streak of 21.
- Danny Barbero leads the team in home runs with five.
- Marcus Heusohn leads the team in doubles with eight.
- Matt Stancliff leads the team in stolen bases with 17 on the season
- Nachtsheim leads the pitching staff in strikeouts on the season with 69 in his nine appearances.
- Cowboy pitching staff has recorded 330 strikeouts in 287.2 innings pitched this season.
- 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 13th 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.
