Conway, Ark.- The Central Arkansas Bears (22-18, 10-8) will play two mid-week games this week. First at the Arkansas State Red Wolves (24-15, 9-9) on Tuesday at Tomlinson Stadium in Jonesboro, Ark and then at home against the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Golden Lions (19-23, 12-6) on Wednesday at The Bear in Conway, Ark. First pitch on Tuesday, April 21st will be at 6:00 p.m., with first pitch on Wednesday, April 22^nd at 4:00 p.m. The Bears have a 7-8 record with ASU over the last 15 match-ups, last year these two teams played twice with both teams winning a game at the other teams field. Against UAPB, the Bears have a 30-3 all-time record and are 1-1 against the Golden Lions this season.

Last weekend the Bears were at home for an ASUN series with Eastern Kentucky. The Bears swept the series beating the Colonels in seven innings on Friday 12-2, winning 8-3 on Saturday and then winning the series finale on Sunday 9-6. The Bears had a huge 1^st inning in Game 1 scoring 10 runs to set the tone for the weekend. With the Bears win on Tuesday last week over ORU, the Bears are on a four-game win streak. In those four games the Bears hit 7 home runs with Nate Negre hitting 2 at ORU, Jagger Schattle had one on Friday, Jack Runsick and Mark Ross both homered on Saturday and Zeb Allen hit a grand slam on Sunday while Casey Shipley hit a solo shot as well. On the mound last week Silas Cowgill got the win at ORU, Denver Hamilton got the win pitching a complete game 1 against EKU, Jake Jones won game 2, JB Williams earned the win on Sunday while Hunter Alexander earned 3 saves on the week. H. Alexander now has 19 career saves and is tied for the UCA career record in saves. Overall this season, the Bears are batting .259 with 342 hits and a .418 slg% while their opponents are batting .281 with 378 hits and a .437 slg%.
 
The Red Wolves have won four of their last five games including a series win at ULM last weekend and a midweek win at Southern Illinois last Tuesday. Derek Martinez is leading the team in batting average at .333 and home runs with 12 so far this season. Overall this season, the Red Wolves are batting .266 with 351 hits and a .474 slg% while their opponents are batting .239 with 307 hits and a .372 slg%.

The Golden Lions are coming off of a series win in Pine Bluff over Texas Southern winning games 1 and 3. Aaron Grant is leading the team in most of the batting statistics with a .345 average, .978 ops, 4 hr, 35 rbi, .432 ob% and a .546 slg%. Overall this season, the Golden Lions are batting .292 with 392 hits and a .398 slg% while their opponents are batting .257 with 339 hits and a .382 slg%.

First pitch against the Red Wolves on Tuesday is set for 6 p.m. in Jonesboro, on Wednesday against the Golden Lions first pitch will be at 4 p.m. in Conway. Both games will be broadcast on ESPN+ and The Bear 91.3 or you can follow live stats online.