Griffin’s group continues homestand with King
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman (19-13) closes the month of March on Tuesday afternoon when it welcomes King (10-24) to the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex for a non-conference contest at 2:00 p.m.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman (19-13) closes the month of March on Tuesday afternoon when it welcomes King (10-24) to the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex for a non-conference contest at 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday's contest will be C-N's fourth straight game at home, part of an eight-game homestand spanning the end of March into early April. The Eagles are 8-7 at home this season.
Carson-Newman will look to close its best month of the season with a win. After starting 1-3 in March, the Eagles have rattled off wins in 10 of their last 12 games and are 11-5 in March. All five of C-N's losses this month have been by three runs or less as well. Just six of the 16 games this month have been played at home as well.
The Eagles have produced fantastic results in non-conference affairs this season. They are 9-1 non-league games and are 4-2 in Tuesday midweek games. C-N is coming off a run-rule victory over Shorter last Tuesday 12-1. On average, the Eagles are scoring at least nine runs in non-conference games. Logan Floyd is hitting .472 in non-conference games this season.
Speaking of offense, Carson-Newman's bats have added the power element to its game in the month of March. The Eagles have blasted 19 home runs this month after having just three in the first 14 games of the season.
The Eagles will be hoping to continue their recent success against King. They have won 13 of the last 15 meetings which have come over the last six seasons. Carson-Newman has won four straight meetings against King, its fourth winning streak of four games or longer in this series all-time. C-N leads the all-time series 31-11.
King heads to Mossy Creek hoping to snap out of a ten-game losing streak. King is winless since March 14 and has just four wins this month. The ten-game losing streak is the fourth-longest active losing streak in DII. Surprisingly enough, it is just the third-longest active losing streak among Southeast Region schools. Fellow Conference Carolinas school Chowan has dropped 14 straight while the Peach Belt's newest member Claflin has lost 20 straight contests. King enters Tuesday's contest 10-24 overall and just 3-10 in non-conference games.
The losing streak for the Tornado is the program's third losing streak of 10 games or more over the last 16 years. It suffered through a 10-game skid in late April of the 2011 campaign and an 11-game skid this past season. During this year's current skid, King has lost four games by two runs or less. This past weekend, King was swept by Young Harris and was outscored 45-3 in three games.
King has been good defensively in 2026. Its fielding percentage sits at .970, second-best in Conference Carolinas this season. It has played error-free in half its games, but does enter Tuesday's game amidst its worst defensive stretch of the year. The Tornado has committed an error in five straight games, with four of those featuring games with at least two.
Tommy Regan and Kale Richardson are the top two hitters for a King offense that averages six runs per game this season. Regan leads the team in batting average (.357), hits (45), doubles (12) and RBI (26). Richardson hits .316 and has a team-best seven home runs of the team's 25 for the year.
King's pitching staff has an earned run average at 8.80, 10th-worst in CC this season. They have hit 69 batters, the tenth-most in DII. King's pitchers have hit multiple batters in 19 of its 34 games.
First pitch on Tuesday afternoon is set for 2:00 p.m. A video stream of the contest is available with a subscription to FloSports at cneagles.com/flobase. The game can be heard on cneagles.com/live. Fans can also watch the radio crew at work with a feed of press row on YouTube.
