ST. PAUL, Minn. – Concordia-St. Paul head baseball coach Mark "Lunch" McKenzie has announced that  Concordia's (13-7, 6-4 NSIC) mid-week doubleheader with Minnesota State (16-7, 11-3 NSIC) has been moved to Plattsmouth, Nebraska on Thursday. First pitch is scheduled for 10 a.m.
 
SCHEDULE INFORMATION
Due to poor weather throughout the entire midwest this week, CSP's doubleheader was pushed back a day and moved to Nebraska. The two teams will meet at the Plattsmouth High School baseball field on Thursday with action set to begin at 10 a.m. For those attending the games, the address for the school is 1912 Old Hwy 34, Plattsmouth, NE, 68048. For those unable to attend, there will be live stats for fans to follow throughout the doubleheader.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Last week, Concordia picked up a pair of shutout wins against Bemidji State on Tuesday in Minnetonka before dropping a doubleheader in Wakefield, Neb. to Southwest Minnesota State on Friday.

The Golden Bears had four of their eight games cancelled this week as Monday's series finale doubleheader with St. Cloud State and Saturday's series finale doubleheader with SMSU were both called due to poor weather. Through the first 10 games of the conference season, Concordia's pitching staff has tallied shutouts in each of their six wins. Despite splitting the four games on the week, CSP outhit their opponents .282-.202 in addition to collecting nine extra-base hits compared to four for their opponents.
 
Josh Gaworski nearly made it back-to-back no-hitters as he carried one into the sixth of a seven inning contest as he completed the three-hit shutout in game one against BSU. Louie Varland continued his impressive start to the year with a nine inning complete game shutout in game two against BSU to bring his scoreless streak to 21.0 innings as he struck out a career-best 10 in the game. Drew Sannes raised his team-best batting average to .448 on the season by going 7-13 (.538) with three doubles and four driven in over the four games on the week.
 
KINGS OF THE HILL
As of last Thursday, the Golden Bears ranked near the top of the country in several statistical categories on the mound. Heading into the weekend CSP led in the country with eight shutouts while also ranking sixth in ERA (2.74), eighth in strikeouts per nine innings (10.5 per 9), ninth in WHIP (1.23), ninth in hits allowed per nine innings (7.48 per 9), and 12th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.92). Concordia also has a pair of individual statistical leaders in the country as Louie Varland leads the country with his 0.00 ERA while Josh Gaworski leads the country in hits allowed per nine innings at 2.37. Gaworski's 0.47 ERA also ranks third in the nation and his 0.84 WHIP ranks 11^th. Gus Varland also ranks near the top of the nation in several statistical categories as his 0.67 ERA puts him in seventh in the nation, giving CSP three in the top-seven, while his 0.78 WHIP ranks sixth, his 5.33 hits allowed per nine innings ranks 22th and his 7.0 strikeout-to-walk ratio ranks 27th. Zach Lauzon also ranks in the top-20 in a pitching category as his 13.08 strikeouts per nine innings ranks 18th.
 
At the plate, CSP has another player ranking near the top as Carter Schmidt was the second-hardest hitter to strike out in the country heading into the weekend with just one strikeout in 61 at-bats.
 
MSU SERIES HISTORY
Concordia has met Minnesota State 35 previous times heading into this week's meeting as they have compiled a record of 6-29 in those meetings. After winning two out of the first seven meetings, CSP dropped 22 of the next 24 innings as the Mavericks took control of the series. The Golden Bears took the final regular season meeting in 2016 before claiming another win in the conference tournament to pick up their first ever winning streak against MSU. That streak came to a close last season as Minnesota State won both games in Mankato.
 
LAST MEETING WITH THE MAVERICKS
In last season's doubleheader, The Golden Bears had a seven-game winning streak snapped by the Mavericks as MSU picked up the sweep.
 
In the opener, CSP scored first, but saw the next 12 runs go in favor of the Mavericks as Minnesota State pulled away for a 12-2 win in the first game of the day.
 
CSP picked up a double from Connor Olson and an infield single from Isaac Hormann to open up the game, but collected just three more hits the rest of the way. Tanner Holmquist followed with a sacrifice fly to put the Golden Bears in front 1-0 after a half inning of action.
 
The Mavericks quickly responded in their half of the first by hanging a five spot on the board before pulling away in the later innings.
 
The Mavericks used a similar recipe to game one as they put up a big first inning before cruising for a comfortable 8-2 win in game two.
 
The Golden Bears had seven hits compared to eight for MSU but were unable to turn them into runs as Minnesota State took advantage of their opportunities.
 
Patrick Bordewick led the way by going 2-4 with an RBI double while Connor Olson, Tanner Holmquist, Zach Elder, Mickey Leius and Steven Nessler all added a hit apiece in the loss.