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ELON, N.C. -- After a seven-game stretch on the road, the Elon baseball team returns to Latham Park to take on the East Carolina Pirates in a 6 p.m. game on Tuesday evening.

The Phoenix partnering with Zeta Tau Alpha to help raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  Zeta Tau Alpha will be selling t-shirts and having a bake sale at the game.  Throwing out the first pitch will be Little Pink Houses of Hope founder Jeanine Patten Coble.

Probable Starting Pitchers:
Tuesday
   EU - RH David Whitehead (1-2, 6.00 ERA) vs. ECU - RH Jeff Hoffman (1-0, 1.95 ERA)

In-Game Chat
If you can not be at any of the Phoenix’s road games, join in with Elon’s free interactive live online chat.  Just click on the link on the Elon baseball home page.

Elon Baseball Live
This year, WPCM 920 AM will broadcast three editions of Elon Baseball Live featuring Phoenix head coach Mike Kennedy.  Hosted by Taylor Durham, the final show will be May 15 at 7 p.m. at The Fat Frogg.

Phoenix BaseBLOG
Fans of Elon baseball can get an inside look at the team this year thanks to a blog being written by junior outfielder Niko Fraser.  The blog can be found at www.elonbaseball.wordpress.com or by clicking the link at the top of the Elon baseball home page at elonphoenix.com.

Scouting East Carolina
East Carolina visits Latham Park sporting a 22-8-1 overall record.  The Pirates are 6-2-1 in Conference USA play after going 2-0-1 against Houston over the weekend.  Prior to Sunday’s tie, ECU had won six straight games.

Offensively, ECU is hitting .299 as a team with 195 runs scored, 44 doubles and 21 homers.  Drew Reynolds leads the team with a .370 batting average while John Wooten’s six homers are a team high.  Corey Thompson leads ECU with seven doubles and 26 RBI.

The Pirate pitching staff boasts a 2.99 ERA and has fanned 213 hitters in 282.2 innings.  ECU pitchers have walked just 88 hitters and opponents are hitting just .246.

ECU head coach Billy Godwin is in his seventh year with the Pirates and 12th overall as a collegiate head coach.  Godwin owns a career record of 518-231-1 and is 256-146-1 at ECU.

Elon Skipper Mike Kennedy
Elon head coach Mike Kennedy is in his 16th season at the helm of the Phoenix program.  The 1991 Elon graduate is the program’s all-time winningest coach and has compiled a career record of 529-366-3 (.591).

Series Notes
Elon and East Carolina have faced each other 67 times on the diamond prior to Tuesday’s contest.  Elon is 30-36-1 in the series which dates to 1940 when Elon took a 7-1 win.  ECU has won the last four in the series, including a 4-3, 10-inning decision at Latham Park last year.

Watch This
Elon junior catcher Alex Swim was named as one of the 43 catchers on the official watch list for the 2012 Johnny Bench Award.  The Johnny Bench Award is presented by BaseballSavings.com and is handed out by the Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission.

Those on the list were nominated by their coaches and is presented annually to the top catcher at the NCAA Division I ranks.  The list will be updated until May 7, 2012.  Nominees must serve as a team’s starting catcher in at least 75 percent of the squad’s games.

Winning Late
A year ago the Phoenix had a lot of late-inning drama.  In fact, Elon won 11 games in its final at bat during the 2011 season.

The Phoenix won its first game in its final at bat in game two of a doubleheader against George Mason on Feb. 18, rallying for four eighth-inning runs in a 4-3 victory.  Elon has five wins in its final at bat this year.

A Tough Road
Elon always plays a tough schedule and 2012 is no different.  The Phoenix will play 14 games against teams that participated in NCAA postseason play in 2011 including a three-game set at two-time defending national champion South Carolina.

Of Elon’s first 30 games in 2012, 14 were against opponents ranked in the top 30 at the time.  According to WarrenNolan.com, Elon’s strength of schedule ranks ninth in the nation on April 9.  Furman has the second-toughest schedule in the SoCon at 49th according to the rankings.

Can We Just Play 9?
Elon has played six extra inning games in 2012.  Four of have gone 11 innings and one went 18 innings.  The maroon and gold is 4-2 in those six games.  In both 2010 and 2011 Elon played six extra inning bouts.

Hit Streak Snapped
Alex Swim recently put together the longest hit streak in Elon’s NCAA Division I history.  The junior from Greensboro, N.C., had a hit in 25 consecutive games from Feb. 29 (at High Point) through game one of a doubleheader on Apr. 7 (at Furman).  The last hit streak of at least 20 games for an Elon player was in 2009 when Cory Harrilchak hit in 20 straight outings.

In Swim’s streak, he hit .429 (45-for-105) with 15 runs scored, five doubles, a homer and 14 RBI.  Swim produced 12 multi-hit games during the 25-game streak.

Scoreless Innings Streaks
Twice this season Elon pitchers have gone 13 or more innings without allowing a run. Junior Dylan Clark went 13 straight frames without allowing a run in back-to-back starts in March (vs. Georgia Southern and at Davidson).  Junior Kyle Webb then put up 14 scoreless innings before allowing a run with two outs in his 15th inning.  Webb’s streak began with a six-inning relief appearance at Samford and he then kept Furman scoreless for eight frames.

The State of North Carolina Baseball
Records Since 2000 (Elon’s 1st DI Year)
North Carolina 571-237-1
East Carolina 512-263-3
North Carolina St. 456-302
ELON 449-293-2
UNC Wilmington 415-269-1
Charlotte 403-295-2
Western Carolina 403-322-2
Wake Forest 382-331-2
UNCG 381-323
Appalachian St. 305-381-3
Duke 305-398-1
Campbell 304-381-1
High Point 284-419-1
North Carolina A&T 277-405
UNC Asheville 256-442
Davidson 245-389
Gardner-Webb* 240-242-1
N.C. Central^ 9-24
* Moved to DI in 2003
^ Moved to DI in 2012