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Postseason Hopes on the Line

With one regular-season series remaining, both Western Illinois and South Dakota State vie for the fourth and final spot in the Summit League Tournament.

Who | Western Illinois (10-26, 6-17 Summit) vs. Omaha (19-22, 11-11 Summit)  
When | Thursday (May 20) at 12 p.m. (DH) - Friday (May 21) at 3 p.m. - Saturday (May 22) at 1 p.m.
Where | Alfred D. Boyer Stadium (Macomb, Ill.)   
Watch | Leatherneck All-Access
Social Media | Twitter + Facebook #TRADITIONofTOUGH

Senior Day | Saturday's regular-season finale will also be billed "Senior Day." Join the Leathernecks as they celebrate the careers of Trenton Bauer, Alex Dorethy, Tyler Estes, Jackson Gray, Kevin Raisbeck, and Luke Schwartz. 

Festivities begin at 12:30 p.m. 

Postseason Implications |Seeding for the 2021 Summit League Baseball Championship presented by the U.S. Air Force Special Warfare is based on winning percentage, and South Dakota State and Western Illinois are in the hunt for the fourth and final spot.

With one series remaining on both schedules, WIU will need to win one more game than SDSU to qualify (if all four games or an equal amount of games are played in BOTH series this weekend). Western owns the head-to-head tiebreaker if the teams end the regular season with the same winning percentage due to cancellations. 

Headlines

• The Leathernecks posted a season-high 13 runs and 16 hits in the 15-13 loss to Omaha (May 2); the Mavs claimed the series, 3-0, with the first two games ending in seven innings 
• Western earned two victories over Oral Roberts, the 2021 regular season champions, this season; the Golden Eagles have only lost five league games so far
• Freshman Jacob Greenan pitched a Summit-high 3.2 innings in the second game at Oral Roberts (May 7) and conceded two hits; he was the only Leatherneck pitcher not to allow a run during the series
• Jace Warkentien picked up his first win of the year in the 5-4 series opener at ORU (May 7)
• Kevin Raisbeck had reached based in 20 consecutive games until the series finale at ORU. It was the longest on the team this season; Adam Juran currently has the longest active streak at nine games 
• Luke Schwartz, Trenton Bauer, and Alex Dorethy are the only Leathernecks to start all 36 games this season 

Scouting the Opposition | Omaha currently sits in third place in Summit League standings … three Mavericks are hitting over .300 in Eduardo Rosario (.355), Chris Esposito (.315), and Mike Boeve (.313) … Joey Machado, Richie Holetz, and Mark Timmins combine for 11 wins on the mound, and have ERAs of 4.00, 4.16, and 5.31, respectively 
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