What You Need to Know:
* Georgia State hosts UL Monroe for a Sun Belt Conference series Friday through Sunday.
* Senior center fielder Ryan Blanton leads the Panthers in hits, runs, RBI, homers, triples, walks and stolen bases.
* Friday's game will be available on PantherVision, and Saturday will air on 1340 The Fan 3 and 103.7 FM.
GEORGIA STATE vs. UL MONROE, GSU Baseball Complex
Friday, 6 p.m.
Saturday, 2 p.m.
Sunday, 1 p.m.
COVERAGE
Friday: PantherVision on GeorgiaStateSports.com and GSU mobile app.
Saturday: Radio on 1340 The Fan 3 and 103.7 FM.
Sunday: Free live audio on GeorgiaStateSports.com and GSU mobile app.
RECORDS
Georgia State: 14-25 Overall, 4-14 Sun Belt Conference (9-11 Home, 3-12 Away, 2-2 Neutral)
ULM: 14-23 Overall, 4-11 Sun Belt Conference (2-7 Home, 9-13 Away, 3-3 Neutral)
PITCHING MATCHUPS - TBA
LEADING OFF
* Georgia State returns home to host UL Monroe in a Sun Belt Conference series that opens Friday at 6 p.m. at the GSU Baseball Complex.
* Senior center fielder Ryan Blanton leads the team in hits (42), runs (29), RBI (27), homers (6), triples (4), walks (22) and stolen bases (8).
* Blanton ranks in the Top 10 in GSU history in runs (131, 8th), walks (89, T-5th) and triples (11, T-2nd; first among all active Sun Belt players).
* With 21 career home runs, Blanton ranks second (to Georgia Southern's Ryan Cleveland) among all active Sun Belt players.
* Six times in his career, Blanton has led off a game with a homer, including twice this season vs. Marshall on Opening Day and Coastal Carolina.
* Catcher-designated hitter Nick Gatewood leads the Panthers with a .298 average. He is hitting .328 with 11 RBI in the last 16 games.
* Freshman pitcher Hunter Gaddis, a 6-5 right-hander and weekend starter, leads the team with a 4-3 record and a 2.95 ERA. He ranks sixth in the Sun Belt in ERA.
* Gaddis took a no-hitter into the eighth inning in a 2-1 victory over UT Arlington on March 18, and he has turned in quality starts in five of his seven starts.
* Georgia State is 3-0 in extra-inning games this season, most recently defeating Troy 3-2 (12) on Jarrett Hood's walk-off single in the 12th. That was Hood's third walk-off hit in the last two seasons.
* The Panther pitching staff held No. 14 Ole Miss to one run on six hits in 19 innings in their two-game series split. Six different Panther hurlers threw in the series.
* Shortstop Justin Jones has two game-winning hits this season. In the March 8 win at No. 14 Ole Miss, Jones delivered a two-run double in the top of the 11th inning for the 2-0 victory. On March 18 in a 1-1 game vs. UT Arlington, he hit a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth and GSU won 2-1.
* Eleventh-year head coach Greg Frady earned his 500th college coaching victory in the Panthers' 12-4 victory over Northern Kentucky on March 4. Frady now has 321 wins at Georgia State, plus 187 wins at North Florida C.C. (1991-96) for a total of 508.
* 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.
THE SERIES vs. ULM
* Georgia State holds a 5-4 lead in the series with ULM.
* Last season at Monroe, GSU won the Friday game 7-3 behind the pitching of Wayne Wages, but the Warhawks came back to win the series, 14-0 and 5-3.
* In the last meeting in Atlanta in 2015, the Panthers swept the series, 7-6, 5-3 and 9-0.
