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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Eastern Kentucky University will play its fourth straight game against a top-15 ranked baseball team when the Colonels travel to face No. 6 ranked Vanderbilt on Wednesday.
 
The game will begin at 5:30 p.m. ET and air live on the SEC Network+.
 
The 2024 home-opener is slated for Friday against Oakland at Earle Combs Stadium.  Season tickets are on sale now.  The season ticket package guarantees fans the best seats for all 30 home games, including Kentucky's visit to Richmond, a home game against long-time rival Morehead State, two games against in-state rival Northern Kentucky and five Atlantic Sun Conference series.
 
THE COLONELS
-  The Colonels (0-3) started the season with three losses at No. 15 Auburn over the weekend.  EKU scored six runs in the opener, but just two over the final two games.
 
-  Third baseman Conner Davis leads the team with a .333 batting average.  He is slugging .556.


-  Freshman Bradley Stewart, who was drafted by Detroit last summer made his collegiate debut at in game three against Auburn.  He struck out two of the three batters he faced and did not allow a hit or a run.
 
-  In the first at bat of his collegiate career, freshman Tait Nunnally hit a 2-run home run over the wall in right field in game one against the Tigers.
 
-  Left-handed junior Isaac Milburn will start on the mound for EKU.  He is 0-1 this season with two strikeouts in one and one-third innings.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
-  Vanderbilt (2-1), ranked sixth in the nation by D1Baseball.com, started the season with two wins in a 3-game series at home against Florida Atlantic.  The Commodores will host Dayton on Tuesday.
 
-  Through the first three games, shortstop Jonathan Vastine is leading the team with a .455 batting average and a team-best six RBIs.  He has a home run, a triple and two doubles in 11 at bats.
 
-  Center fielder RJ Austin is batting .417 with four runs, two steals and five RBIs.
 
-  Right-handed freshman Brennan Seiber has Vanderbilt's only save, tossing three scoreless innings without allowing a base runner and striking out three.

-  Vanderbilt's starter has not been determined.
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
-  The Colonels are 2-1 against Vanderbilt.  EKU won the first two meetings – 4-1 on Feb. 28, 1992 in Macon, Georgia and 6-5 on March 14, 2018 in Nashville.  The Commodores won the most recent contest, 6-4, on April 13, 2021 in Nashville.
 
-  In the 2021 game, EKU got the tying run to second base in the top of the ninth inning, but couldn't complete the comeback in a 6-4 loss to No. 2 ranked Vanderbilt.  The Colonels began the ninth down three.  With two outs and two on, Daniel Harris IV drove in a run with an infield single.  A passed ball allowed Kendal Ewell to move to third and Harris, representing the tying run, to advance into scoring position at second base.  However, a fly ball ended the comeback bid and the game.  Ewell was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run scored.  Jordan Fox, Jake Lewis and Louis Davenport III combined for three and one third innings of scoreless relief to end the game.  The trio allowed two hits and struck out four.  CJ Rodriguez had a 4-for-4 night with two runs for the Commodores