Auburn Prepares For Home Series With Florida

[AUSportTalk 4]

The Southeastern Conference season will hit the midway

point this weekend as Auburn plays host to Florida at Plainsman Park on

Friday at 6pm, Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 1pm. Auburn (22-10) stands

at 6-6 in league play, a game behind Florida (21-11, 7-5 SEC) for fifth

in the SEC standings.

Auburn will use the same two starting pitchers this weekend as it has

in each of its SEC series, starting So. LHP Grant Dayton (2-3, 3.66 ERA)

on Friday and R-Fr. RHP Jon Luke Jacobs (3-1, 5.59) on Saturday.

Florida will counter with Jr. RHP Jeff Barfield (2-0, 2.84) on Friday

and either Fr. LHP Nick Maronde (1-1, 3.44) or Sr. LHP Stephen Locke

(0-0, 2.89) on Saturday.

Neither team has announced a Sunday starter yet.

Florida comes in as one of the better pitching teams with a 3.82 staff

ERA, which is second only to Georgia in the SEC, while Auburn comes in

with a .302 batting average, sixth in the conference and slightly ahead

of Florida’s .297.

So. IF Hunter Morris has really turned it up at the plate for Auburn,

carrying a seven-game hitting streak into the weekend series in which he

is hitting .393 with three doubles, three home runs, eight runs scored

and seven RBI.

So. C Tony Caldwell has also been hot as of late, both at the plate and

behind it, raising his batting average almost 150 points over the last

17 games to .327 while also throwing out 17 runners attempting to steal

bases.

The first 500 fans into Friday’s game will receive an Auburn Jersey

Koozie from Logan Square Apartments while the first 500 fans into

Saturday’s game will receive an AU Seat Cushion courtesy of Barber’s

Dairy. The team will also host an Easter Egg hunt following Saturday’s

game.

The first 500 fans into Sunday’s game will receive Set No. 3 of the

2009 Team Trading Card Set courtesy of Longhorn Steakhouse and it is

also Family Day where fans can get four tickets, four hot dogs and four

drinks for just $50. And kids 12-and-under may run the bases after the

game.

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