UND (12-16) at South Dakota State (20-13)
Tuesday - 3:00 p.m.

UND (12-16, 6-6) at Seattle U (19-15, 11-1)
Friday - 7:00 p.m. CT
Saturday- 4:00 p.m. CT
Sunday - 2:00 p.m. CT
ON TAP
UND will play five road games before returning for another lengthy home stretch, playing 11 of 12 at home from Apr. 24-May 3.  

LOOKING AHEAD
After the weekend trip through Seattle, UND heads to Fargo to duel with the NDSU Bison on April 21. North Dakota then returns home for WAC series with Sacramento State and Texas-Pan American with the return trip from NDSU mixed in.  

ABOUT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
The Jackrabbits are 20-13 on the season, including a 9-6 mark in Summit League play. They are led in hitting by Zach Coppola, who sports a .410 mark heading into Tuesday's tilt. SDSU has been solid late in games, tallying a 16-0 mark when leading after six innings this season. The Jacks have won 12 of their last 14, including five straight.  

ALL-TIME SERIES WITH THE JACKRABBITS
The all-time series is slanted slightly in favor of SDSU, with the series record of 69-64-1. The teams were scheduled to meet four times last season, but only one made it through the tough weather: a 10-9 SDSU win in Brookings, S.D. on April 15.

ABOUT SEATTLE
The Redhawks currently sit atop the Western Athletic Conference standings with an 11-1 league mark. Seattle has gotten hot in conference play with 14 wins in 16 games after a 5-13 start to the campaign. They are led by Sheldon Stober, who has a .318 batting average with a team-best 26 RBI. Senior closer Kyle Doyle is the reigning WAC Pitcher of the Week after finishing three of Seattle's four wins.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH THE REDHAWKS
The series with the Redhawks is 2-1 Seattle after last season's series. North Dakota won the opener, 6-5, at Kraft Field, but Seattle rallied for 6-0 and 12-9 wins in the following games.

LEADING MAN
Senior Tyler Follis now leads the Western Athletic Conference in hitting with an impressive .426 batting average. That average ranks third in all of NCAA Division I at the week's beginning. Already UND's single-season leader in hits (74 in 2012), he has 207 career hits, just 12 shy of the all-time record at North Dakota.

FIRST HOMERS
Hunter Walsh and T.J. Pigeon each recorded their first career homers in an 11-1 win over Chicago State Sunday. The duo helped UND rack up seven runs in the eighth inning to gain the run-rule win and the sweep of the Cougars.   

UND LEADS WAC IN HOMERS
North Dakota has 18 homers as a team, tops in the conference. UND slugged four homers in Sunday's win over Chicago State, including Jeff Campbell's sixth of the season, tied for the most in the WAC individually.

THEY CAN SWING IT
UND is also second in the conference in team batting average, combining for a .298 clip thus far.

THOME GETS TO 15
Andrew Thome threw 7.2 innings for his 15th win of his career in Friday's 6-4 win over Chicago State. That now puts him into a three-way tie for 8th palce in the UND record book for pitching wins. The leader is J.J. Scheving's 19 victories (2000-04).

SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST
Jeff Campbell registered a pair of saves in the series win over Chicago State and now has six saves on the season. He is just one shy of the school mark shared by J.J. Scheving (2004) and Vince Eastman (1991).

FOUR HUNDO
Follis and Campbell are each flirting with the .400 mark midway through the league season. Follis tops the conference at .426 while Campbell is in third at .383.

RUEMM DIET
Tyler Ruemmele threw three innings of one-hit baseball to close out a win over Minnesota Crookston on April 6. He earned his first save of his career in the win.

FOUR HITS
Follis registered his third game with four hits this season in UND's 14-5 win over Minnesota Crookston Apr. 6. He hit his second homer of his career in the victory, an inside-the-park job to right field.

CAMPBELL CATCHES WAC WEEKLY AWARD
Senior slugger Jeff Campbell picked up the WAC Player of the Week for his performance in the three-game sweep at Northern Colorado, Mar. 27-29. He whacked three homers, one in each game, and drove in six for the week.

ALL ABOUT THAT BASE, 'BOUT THAT BASE
Senior Jeff Campbell went from seventh to fourth in the UND record book for total bases with his impressive showing at Northern Colorado. He totaled 14 bases to fly past current assistant coach Brian DeVillers, Todd Wensloff and Tom Montgomery. He now sits just 38 bases shy of second place all-time (Jake Magner- 363).

Total Bases
1.     Aaron Larsen (97-01)    410
2.    Jake Magner (08-11)    363
3.     Carter Rogalla (94-98)    362
4.     Jeff Campbell (12-15)    325
5.     Tom Montgomery (87-90)    303
6.     Todd Wensloff (93-96)    299
7.     Brian DeVillers (00-03)    297
8.     Travis Johnson (93-95)    278
9.     Dustin Frize (97-01)    274
10.     Jason Fairchild (03-06)    271

FOUR-K NINTH
Senior Andrew Thome pulled a rarity in a Mar. 27 win at Northern Colorado. He struck out four batters in the ninth inning to finish off his 15th career complete game and give him a career-high-tying 11 in the win.

POWER WASH
North Dakota's 6-4 win over Washington marked the school's first-ever win over a PAC-12 school. Ryan Reese's three-run blast in the 10th inning proved to be the difference as Jeff Campbell picked up the win in relief, squandering just one run over three innings.
 
PASSING THE BUCK
Jeff Dodson notched career win No. 100 in the 6-4 win at Washington Feb. 27, moving him past Gene Roebuck for victories as a UND skipper. He is now third for career wins among UND baseball coaches all-time. Roebuck coached the team from 1990-93 and led the team to the 1993 NCAA North Central Regional. Roebuck was also a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach at UND (1987-2012).

All-time winningest UND baseball coaches
COACH        WINS        YEARS
Kelvin Ziegler        326        1994-2007
Pinky Kraft        207        1956-81
Jeff Dodson        111       2009-pres.
Gene Roebuck        99        1990-93

DODSON MILESTONES
Some of Coach Dodson's biggest wins have come on milestone occasions. His first win at UND was a 10-7 victory at Missouri State, UND's first as a Division I team (2009). Here's a look at some milestone wins for Dodson:

Win    Opp.
1    at Missouri St. (2009)    10-7
5    at Creighton (2009)    7-6
25    No. Colorado (2010)    10-7
50    at NJIT (2012)    6-3
75    at No. Colo. (2013)     23-7
99    vs. NDSU (2014)    3-2
100    at Washington (2015)    6-4

THOME THE MONEY!
Senior Andrew Thome is approaching the leaders in several statistical categories for his career. A look at where he ranks in some key areas:

IP    286.2    1st
SO    4    T1st
Wins    15    T8th
CG    15    4th
K    185    5th

CAMPBELL RINGING
Jeff Campbell continues to ascend the top 10 list at North Dakota for homers. He sits in 8th with 27. A look at where he stands:

Home Runs
1.     Aaron Larsen (97-01)    44
2.    Jake Magner (08-11)    39
3.     Carter Rogalla (94-98)    33
    Jason Fairchild (03-06)    32
5.     Brian DeVillers (00-03)    31
      Travis Wensloff (93-96)    31
6.     Troy Wasiloski (03-06)    30
7.     Travis Johnson (93-95)    28
8.    Jeff Campbell (12-15)    27

JEFF JUMPING UP THE CHARTS
Jeff Campbell has led North Dakota in homers in each of his three seasons on campus (tied with Taylor Petersen last two seasons). His name is plastered all over the UND record book in several categories:

2B    40    2nd
3B    5    T9th
RBI    138    7th
HR    27    8th
Bases    325    4th

STAFF NOTES
The coaching staff of head coach Jeff Dodson, associate head coach J.C. Field and assistant coach Brian DeVillers have been together for the entire past seasons. DeVillers was a holdover from the previous staff and is entering his eighth season on the UND coaching staff after a standout playing career at North Dakota.

DIRTY DOZEN
North Dakota features 12 players in their senior season on an experienced 2015 roster. The group includes seven starters set to usher UND into the second season in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).