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RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University baseball team will play its first midweek game of the 2012 season this Wednesday as the Colonels travel down I-64 to face in-state rival Louisville. First pitch is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.

EKU (2-1) took two-of-three games at East Tennessee State over the weekend. The Colonels slugged .524 and smashed six home runs during the set, none of which were more important than senior Dustin Dunlop’s game-winning bomb in the top of the 11th inning of game two that swayed the momentum of the series. Junior Austin Grisham currently paces the Colonel offense with a .417 batting average.

Louisville (2-1) enters the week ranked No. 16 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 24 by Baseball America. The Cardinals fell to Minnesota on Opening Day, but responded by beating Illinois on Saturday and Michigan State on Sunday. Cole Sturgeon leads Louisville with a .556 batting average, while Jeff Gardner has a team-best three RBI.

Junior left-hander Shane Grimm, a junior college transfer who went 16-2 during his two-year stint at Walters State Community College, will start on the mound for EKU.

Louisville will counter with freshman right-hander Nick Burdi, who will be making his first collegiate start.

EKU is 33-44 against Louisville all-time, although the Colonels did upset the Cardinals, 7-5, on March 3, 2009 at Turkey Hughes Field. Senior pitchers Matt Harris and Greg Terry, who were freshmen at the time, played large roles in the upset win.

Following Wednesday’s game at Louisville, EKU will head south to Spartanburg, S.C. to play USC Upstate in a three game set this weekend.