PREVIEW: Constellation Field Beckons Cougars

SUGAR LAND, Texas – The final midweek game for the Houston baseball team will send the Cougars to the suburbs of Houston to face Sam Houston in the Don Sanders Cup finale at Constellation Field.

HOUSTON (25-26) vs Sam Houston (30-21)
Date \| Time	Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Opponents	Sam Houston (30-21)
Location	Sugar Land, Texas \| Constellation Field
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THE MATCHUP

Houston is 2-2 against Sam Houston at Constellation Field.
The Cougars have won two-straight games against the Bearkats in Sugar Land.
The 2024 series is split 1-1 with Houston winning the opener on March 5 via a walk-off two-run double off the bat of freshman Ace Reese.
This is the second-most played series in Houston history behind Rice (200 meetings) and one more game than Texas A&M (176 meetings) with this marking the 177th meeting against Sam Houston.
The Cougars are 16-12 against the Bearkats under Todd Whitting's guidance.

QUICK HITTERS

Senior Cary Arbolida has hit multiple home runs in four different games this season (vs Texas, 4/12; 2x vs UT Arlington, 4/26 & 4/28, 5/11).
Arbolida is hitting .409 since April 3 with 14 home runs, 22 extra-base hits while slugging 1.000.
Freshman Anthony Avalos recorded his first-multi hit game in his first Big 12 Conference start at Kansas on Sunday. The shortstop drove in two runs while notching his first career double.
Freshman Ace Reese hit a go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning Tuesday night in Houston's come from behind win over Nicholls. The three-RBI performance tied a career-high for the freshman.
Second baseman Harold Coll hit the team's third grand slam of the season, tying Saturday's game against UCF at 4-4 in the 6th inning.
The Cougars scored five or more runs in 13 games in April and hit multiple home runs in 12 games during April.
Reese recorded his first-career three-hit game at Texas A&M with two opposite field hits including an opposite field home run.
Coll's 3.36 WAR (wins above replacement) ranks seventh in the Big 12 and eighth among second basemen nationally. Coll's 3.36 WAR is second among Big 12 second basemen.
The Cougars have scored 20+ runs in two games this year after beating Southern 25-0 on Wednesday. It marks the first time Houston has scored 20+ in multiple games in the same season.
Houston hit more home runs in the month of April (37) than it did in both February and March combined (26). Houston averaged 2.18 home runs per game across 17 games in April compared to 0.96 in February and March, combined, across 16 games.
Three different Cougars have hit 10+ home runs in 2024, marking the third-straight year a trio of Cougars have hit 10+ homers in the same season.
Houston is on pace to hit more home runs then its opponents for the first time in a full season since 2019.
The Cougars pitching staff is on pace for the second-most strikeouts in a single season with 549 thanks to their 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings pace. The school record 605 was set in 2003 over 598.1 innings (9.1 strikeouts per nine) in which Houston played a school record 67 games.
Houston is on pace to hit 81 home runs this season, the second most in school history (83 in 1986) – the Cougars have already hit the most in the BBCOR bat era (2012-present).

LAST TIME OUT

Arbolida hit his third home run of the weekend in the eighth inning at Kansas. The senior hit two home runs in Saturday's game –his fourth multi-homer game of the year.
First baseman Justin Murray notched his first two-homer game of the season on Friday at Kansas.

SERIES HISTORY
Houston record vs Sam Houston 90-86
Last meeting L, 8-5, 4/9/24, Away
Streak Sam Houston, W1

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