ST. PAUL, Minn. - This weekend, Concordia-St. Paul baseball (9-9, 7-3 NSIC) remains on the road for a four game series at Bemidji State (7-18, 4-6 NSIC) with a 1 p.m. first pitch on Friday and a noon start on Saturday. The weekend set will feature live online video & audio coverage as well as live stats in the related links section of this article.

Concordia enters the weekend set coming off a road sweep at Wayne State on Tuesday in the team's first road games of the year. Bemidji State enters the weekend with four straight losses, dropping the final two games of a weekend split at Sioux Falls before falling twice to Northern State at home on Tuesday.

SERIES HISTORY: Concordia 30, Bemidji State 23
The Golden Bears are 30-23 overall and 11-7 at BSU Baseball field against the Beavers. The Golden Bears are 28-13 against BSU since April 2, 2005 although the Beavers are 8-5 in the last 13 meetings. Last year, the Beavers won the season series 3-2 including a 3-1 weekend set in Bemidji. Although Concordia lost the season series, the Golden Bears put up 49 to runs to Bemidji State's 33 over the five games. Concordia defeated BSU 20-3 in Tucson in March and picked up a 23-9 win in the third game of the weekend series to account for most of the offense. BSU scored a 1-run win (6-5) in the series finale and a 2-0 win in the four game series opener while adding a 13-1 win in the second game of the weekend set.

INDIVIDUAL HITTER NOTES VS BEMIDJI STATE
Kyle Dalton has hit .444/.510/.533 (20-45) in 13 games with 14 runs, four doubles, seven RBI and a 6-3 walk-strikeout ratio. Last year, he hit .550 (11-20) in five games with seven runs, three doubles and four RBI ... Trevon Bargfrede hit .727/.769/.909 (8-11) with two doubles last year and owns a .615/.667/.769 (8-13) career line with seven runs in seven games ... Joe Muench hit .474/.474/.632 (9-19) in four games last year including a home run and nine RBI ... Ryan Poppitz hit .476/.500/.667 (10-21) with two doubles and a triple in five games last year, scoring nine runs and driving in nine in the five games and is .400/.423/.560 (10-25) in eight career games against BSU ... Eric Fasnacht is .250/.318/.350 (5-20) in seven career games against BSU, last year hitting .300/.417/.400 (3-10) in three games ... Tyler Krekling is .235/.350/.235 (4-17) in five games - all last season, with six runs and three RBI ... Alex LaPorte has hit .412/.444/.471 (7-17) in six games with six runs ...

INDIVIDUAL PITCHER NOTES VS BEMIDJI STATE
Zach Rengel is 1-1 in two starts with a 4.00 ERA over 9.0 innings, allowing eight runs (four earned) on 12 hits and four walks with 11 strikeouts ... Yuji Suzuki is 1-0 in two appearances (one start) with a 6.35 ERA in 11.1 innings, allowing eight runs on 16 hits with eight strikeouts and two walks ... Tyler Brekke is 0-1 in three appearances (one start) with a 2.35 ERA in 7.2 innings, holding BSU to a .143 average with a 0.71 WHIP and only one extra base hit (double) ... Josh Lenz is 0-0 with a 6.00 ERA in one start, working 6.0 innings allowing five hits and a walk with six strikeouts while holding BSU to a .238 average last year ... Adam Fredericks has pitched once against BSU, allowing one unearned run in 2.1 innings in relief last year on four hits with no walks and a strikeout.

NSIC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK SCHEDULED TO SQUARE OFF
This week's NSIC Player and Pitcher of the Week are scheduled to face each other, provided each are in the lineup over the weekend. Concordia left handed starter Zach Rengel has pitched the series opener in each of Concordia's two weekend series this year and is coming off of his best career outing. He struck out a career-high 11 UMD hitters including six of the last seven while retiring eight in a row to end a 2-1 walk-off win. He allowed a run on five hits and a walk and retired 13 of the last 14 overall. Bemidji State outfielder Scott Litchy earned NSIC Player of the Week honors as he hit .529 (9-17) in a four game series split at Sioux Falls. He slugged a pair of doubles, a triple and a pair of home runs with 10 RBI. He punctuated his weekend with an eight-RBI outburst as he hit a three-run homer and a grand slam in consecutive at bats and scored six times in the contest. He slugged 1.118 for the weekend.

CU WEEKEND PROJECTED STARTERS*
GAME 1: Zach Rengel (LHP, 2-1, 3 GS, 4.76 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 17.0 IP)
GAME 2: Yuji Suzuki (RHP, 0-2, 2 GS, 8.44 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 16.0 IP)
GAME 3: Kevin Woebke (LHP, 1-2, 3 GS, 5.87 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 15.1 IP)
GAME 4: Kody Knaus (LHP, 1-1, 4 GS, 4.09 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 22.0 IP)

* - Projected starters based upon prior usage, Concordia coaches do not announce probable starting pitchers

SCOUTING BEMIDJI STATE
The Beavers got off to a slow start to the 2015 season, winning one of their first nine games en route to a 3-13 non-conference record. The Beavers quickly recovered by winning four of their next six, splitting four games at Winona State and winning the first two of a four game set at Sioux Falls which led to the four game skid the Beavers currently employ.

BSU is currently in the midst of a 16 game stretch which features 14 home games, with a road doubleheader at nearby Minnesota Crookston next Wednedsay as the only away contests during a 16-day span.

BSU is led by Scott Litchy, the reigning NSIC Player of the Week as he hit .529 (9-17) with two doubles, a triple and a pair of home runs, driving in 10 runs against Sioux Falls. He delivered eight of his RBI in one game and leads the team with 16 on the year. He also leads the team with four home runs and is slashing .333/.422/.583. Tyler Nelson is also hitting .333/.475/.511, leading the team with 10 doubles and two home runs. Litchy and Nelson lead the team with 19 runs apiece. Jack Hegarty is hitting a team-best .396/.439/.642 (21-53) but has started 14 of the team's 25 games, slugging five doubles, a triple and two home runs.

BSU WEEKEND PROJECTED STARTERS
GAME 1: Terry Hadden (RHP, 2-4, 6 GS, 5.57 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 32.1 IP)
GAME 2: *Jesse Katz (RHP, 1-4, 6 GS, 15.10 ERA, 2.85 WHIP, 19.2 IP)
GAME 3: Jack Hegarty (RHP, 2-1, 3 GS, 3.04 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 23.2 IP)
GAME 4: Derek Masberg (RHP, 0-2, 4 GS, 9.58 ERA, 1.94 WHIP, 20.2 IP)

Hegarty has worked a complete game in all three starts, striking out over a batter per inning on the year (28 K, 23.2 IP) while holding opponents to a .256 average. He also has a save out of two relief appearances. Hadden leads the team in innings (32.1) but has been more hittable than Hegarty as opponents hit .281 including 11 doubles, three triples and a homer while he has issued 16 free passes which is a rate of one walk every other inning.

The Golden Bears faced Hadden, Katz and Masberg last season, scoring 14 earned runs in 4.1 innings against Katz in two separate outings. Hadden fared best, working 4.1 innings allowing three runs (two earned) on nine hits in BSU's 6-5 win, although he did not factor in the decision.

* - Katz started last Saturday at Sioux Falls (3.0 IP) and Tuesday against Northern State (0.2 IP, 23 PC)