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The Southwest Minnesota State University baseball team (12-8, 4-6 NSIC) continues Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play this Sunday and Monday with a three-game series versus Upper Iowa University (10-10, 6-3 NSIC) in Fayette, Iowa.
The three-game set was originally scheduled to be played at Legion Field in Marshall on Saturday and Sunday, but is being relocated and delayed to Sunday and Monday due to weather and field conditions.
SMSU has now had eight scheduled games relocated this season.
SMSU is coming off a doubleheader split with Sioux Falls on Wednesday in Sioux City, Iowa, while UIU split two games with St. Cloud State on Tuesday.
Game coverage
Live stats and video for all three games will be available at SMSUmustangs.com.
Series history vs. UI
SMSU and UIU have meet 51 times since the 2005 season with UIU holding a 27-24 all-time advantage.
Mustang extra bases
SMSU is averaging 7.4 runs per game and batting .305.
Keenan Wenzel is batting .380 in 14 games with 19 hits, including three doubles and 13 RBIs. Wenzel had six RBIs in a win over Dakota Wesleyan on March 6 becoming the first SMSU player since 2020 to drive in six runs.
Chase McDaniel is batting .350 with a team-leading 28 hits and a team-high 11 multi-hit games. He had a nine-game hitting streak earlier this season.
Owen Latendresse has six multi-RBI games and leads the team with 24 RBIs, while batting .333.
Peyton Nash is hitting .405 in 12 games with six doubles, 13 RBIs and is tied for the team lead with six multi-RBI games.
Jaxon Haase is tied for team lead with four home runs and ranks second with 19 RBIs.
Isaac Nett ranks fourth on the team with 21 hits and is tied for the team-lead with four home runs.
Max Kalenberg tied a school record with five runs scored in a win over Dakota Wesleyan on March 6. He is the eighth Mustang all-time and the first since the 2004 season to score five runs in a game.
SMSU opened the season winning eight of 10 games at the Tucson Invitational from March 4-13. The 8-2 start following 10 games is the program's best since beginning the 2009 season with a 9-1 record.
SMSU's victory on March 10 versus Malone (Ohio) was the 1,000th in program history.