Conway, Ark.- The Central Arkansas Bears (27-22, 14-10) and the North Alabama Lions (24-23, 15-9) will play a three-game ASUN series in Conway, Ark. at Bear Stadium this weekend. First pitch on Friday is set for 3 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. This weekend is Alumni Weekend at The Bear. The Bears have a 13-8 advantage in the all time series going 11-1 from '22 through '24, but the Bears are just 2-7 since. These two teams played earlier this season in Florence, the Lions won that series 2-1. In the Bears win in Florence, Closer Hunter Alexander got the win pitching 5 innings in relief as the game went 11 innings. Currently, the Bears and Lipscomb are tied for 2^nd place in the ASUN Gold Division just one game behind UNA in 1st, AP is in 4^th one game behind 2^nd, and Bellarmine is two games behind 4^th, the top four teams from each ASUN division will be invited to the ASUN Championship.

The Bears played their last midweek non-conference game this week at Memphis. The Bears got a run across quickly in this one, Parker Gwyn hit the first pitch of the game out to left center field, Keaton Laidley hit one deep to right field in the 6^th inning. But the Bears gave up 5 runs in the 4^th ultimately losing 3-8. JB Williams went 3 innings on the mound giving up just four hits and 2 runs. Two relief pitcher had good outings as well, Kannon Nesslege had 4 strikeouts in 2.1 innings while Austin Jones gave up no hits in 2 innings of work. In ASUN games this season, the Bears are batting .281 with 231 hits and a .471 slg% and their ASUN opponents are batting .273 with 219 hits and a .442 slg%.

The Lions had a midweek game with Samford in Florence, Samford won that game 8-2. The Lions have now lost 3 games in a row after dropping the last two games of their series with Bellarmine as well. However, previous to those three losses, the Lions had won five games in a row. Wes Walker leads the Lions from the plate in ASUN games with a .347 average, 23 runs scored, 33 hits, 6 doubles, 10 hr, 32 rbi and a .747 slg%. The Lions pitching staff has a 6.00 era, 1.65 whip, has issued 114 walks and struck out 171 batters in ASUN games. In ASUN games this season, the Lions are batting .295 with 251 hits and a .519 slg% and their ASUN opponents are batting .286 with 229 hits and a .441 slg%.

All three games will be broadcast on ESPN+ and The Bear 91.3 or you can follow live stats online.