NATCHITOCHES – A week later than expected, the Northwestern State baseball team jumps into its midweek schedule full force.

After freezing weather postponed their Feb. 19 game at ULM, the Demons will start midweek play with two games at Brown-Stroud Field tonight and Wednesday evening in more spring-like conditions.

Northwestern will host Southern-New Orleans tonight before Alcorn comes to Natchitoches Wednesday. Both games start at 6 o’clock and will air on ESPN+.

The Demons (2-4) come into the back-to-back home games after dropping three straight a Troy, which moved up to No. 20 from last week’s No. 24 ranking in the college baseball writers’ poll.

“The way we look at it is that it opens up some opportunities for some people to either get back on track if they’ve been scuffling,” second-year head coach Chris Bertrand said. “It opens up some opportunities for guys to continue to stay hot and in that groove. A five-game week opens up opportunities to get some guys in the ballgame that we might not have gotten in as much.”

This evening’s matchup with SUNO marks the first meeting between the Demons and Knights, who were 4-7 ahead of a Monday matchup with Dillard University. SUNO is in its second season of competition after a 17-21 debut mark a season ago.

The Demons will send sophomore right-hander Kevin Robinson (0-0, 27.00) to the mound against SUNO and are expected to start junior right-hander Brandon Carter (0-0, 9.82) against Alcorn on Wednesday. The Braves come into the matchup at 0-5 after suffering a three-game sweep at Southeastern Louisiana this past weekend.

Northwestern’s offense has reached double figures in three of its first six games.  The Demons have been a bit feast or famine at the plate. In the three games where Northwestern has reached double figures, it averages 13 runs per game. In the other three games, the Demons have been held to a total of seven runs.

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