What You Need to Know:
* Georgia State plays at No. 16 Ole Miss Tuesday and Wednesday, both on SECN+/WatchESPN
* Third baseman Romero Greer leads the Sun Belt with a .531 average (8th in NCAA)
* Head coach Greg Frady earned his 500th collegiate coaching victory in Saturday's 12-4 win over Northern Kentucky.
GEORGIA STATE at OLE MISS, Swayze Field, Oxford, Miss.
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, 4 p.m. ET
RECORDS
Georgia State: 6-4 Overall (5-1 Home, 1-3 Away)
Ole Miss: 7-4 Overall (7-1 Home, 0-3 Neutral), Ranked No. 16 by D1Baseball, No. 21 by Baseball America, No. 30 by Collegiate Baseball
PROBABLE PITCHERS (GSU-Ole Miss)
Tuesday: LHP Brandon Baker, R-Jr. (0-1, 5.68) vs. LHP Ryan Rolison, Fr. (1-0, 4.26)
Wednesday: TBA vs. RHP Will Ethridge, Fr. (1-0, 2.25)
COVERAGE
Both games will air on SECN+/WatchESPN.
Live stats on GeorgiaStateSports.com and GSU mobile app.
LEADING OFF
* For the second straight week, Georgia State faces a nationally-ranked, Power 5 opponent on the road as the Panthers travel to Ole Miss for a pair of midweek games at Swayze Field. The Rebels are ranked No. 16 by DIBaseball and No. 21 by Baseball America.
* Georgia State is making its second trip in four seasons to Ole Miss. In a 2014 weekend series, GSU dropped the first two games, 3-0 and 9-1, but on Sunday, Matt Rose pitched a complete-game 6-4 victory.
* Senior center fielder Ryan Blanton is the only current Panther who played in the 2014 Ole Miss series, and he hit a solo home run (the first of his career) in the Sunday win.
* In recent years, Georgia State has also faced SEC teams Auburn, Georgia, Mississippi State and South Carolina, including back-to-back wins over Georgia in 2013 and 2014.
* Third baseman Romero Greer, a transfer from Pensacola State, is off to a hot start, hitting .531 (17-for-31) to lead the Sun Belt Conference and rank eighth in Division I. He has one homer, eight RBI and nine runs scored while playing stellar defense.
* Senior center fielder Ryan Blanton is hitting .325 and has a team-leading two homers, 10 RBI and 10 runs scored. He led off the 2017 season with a home run vs. Marshall, the fifth time in his career he has led off a game with a homer.
* Two players who missed the 2016 season due to injury have figured prominently already for the Panthers. Outfielder-DH Cam Sperry (knee) is hitting .375 with a homer and seven RBI. Relief pitcher Logan Barnette (shoulder) earned a win over BYU and a two-inning save vs. Jacksonville.
* Freshman Hunter Gaddis, a 6-5 right-hander from Sequoyah High School, earned two wins out of the bullpen, against Marshall and Jacksonville, and has now moved into the weekend rotation. He is 2-0 with a 1.74 ERA.
* The GSU bullpen is 4-0 with two saves and a 3.24 ERA, led by Tanner Thomson (1-0, 0.93), Rhett Harper (1 save, 1.69) and Hunter Gaddis (2-0, 2.84), who has moved into the rotation.
* Georgia State's 2017 schedule is perhaps the most ambitious in school history. The 2017 slate includes four different Power Five opponents and 13 games against 2016 NCAA Tournament teams, including a home series with Coastal Carolina, the defending national champions and the newest member of the Sun Belt Conference.
* Eleventh-year head coach Greg Frady earned his 500th college coaching victory in the Panthers' 12-4 victory over Northern Kentucky on Marchh 4. Frady has 313 wins at Georgia State, plus 187 wins at North Florida C.C. (1991-96).
* Frady is Georgia State's career leader in victories after passing Mike Hurst (293) on March 20, 2016. In the last year he has also been honored with two different Hall of Fame inductions, joining the German Baseball and Softball Hall of Fame and the Georgia Dugout Club Hall of Fame.
* All but three players on the 2017 roster hail from Georgia, including 26 Panthers from the Atlanta area. Only Jaylen Woullard (Mississippi), Romero Greer (Texas) and Jansen Acton (Alabama) are not from the Peach State. Woullard attended Biloxi (Miss.) High School.
