Drury Panthers (20-14, 11-5 GLVC) at Truman State Bulldogs (9-24, 3-17 GLVC)
Location  | Site	Kirksville, Mo. | Bulldog Baseball Park
Game 1	Friday, April 10 | 3 p.m. (9 inn.)
Games 2 & 3 (DH)	Saturday, April 11 | 1 p.m. (7 inn./7 inn.)
Game 4	Sunday, April 12 | 12 p.m. (9 inn.)
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Drury baseball returns to the road this weekend for a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference series with Truman State beginning with a 3 p.m., contest on Friday (April 10) at Bulldog Baseball Park in Kirksville, Mo.

Drury (20-14, 11-5 GLVC) will be looking to extend a recent hot streak that has seen it win seven of eight GLVC contests over the last two weekends. The Panthers have hit .402 and averaged 11.3 runs per outing while fielding at a .987 team clip over the same span.

Truman State (9-24, 3-17 GLVC) has dropped six of its last eight in GLVC play, but posted a win over league-leading Illinois Springfield last weekend in Kirksville.

Fans may follow the action through the GLVC Sports Network (subscription required), where games will be streamed live throughout the regular season. New for the 2025-26 academic year, viewing access to live broadcasts from GLVC regular season and postseason contests will be available via monthly subscription ($30) or annual subscription ($140). Single-event access can also be purchased for $15. 
 
LEADING OFF

• The Panthers are celebrating their 20th season in 2026 and bring an overall program record of 563-424-1 into Friday's contest. 
• Drury is led by 14th-year head coach Scott Nasby, who has compiled an overall mark of 387-290-1 as the Panthers' all-time winningest coach.
• DU brings a commanding 35-9 series advantage against Truman into this year's matchup; the Panthers have won the last five meetings in the series and 18 of the last 20 against the Bulldogs dating back to 2017.
• Drury is also 17-3 vs. Truman on the Bulldogs' home turf, including wins in 11 of the last 12 meetings in Kirksville since 2018.
• The Panthers enter the weekend ranked seventh nationally in doubles per game (2.56), 10th in batting (.346) and 24th in scoring (9.3).
• OF Luke Matschiner recorded his 100th hit as a Panther last weekend and currently ranks third on DU's career stolen base chart (55).
• INF Jackson Crider ranks as DU's career leader in hitting (.420), on-base percentage (.532) and slugging percentage (.652).

SERIES HISTORY

• The Panthers hold a decisive 35-9 overall series advantage against the Bulldogs.
• Drury has won 18 of the last 20 meetings in the series, dating back to 2017.
• The Panthers have gone 17-3 against Truman in Kirksville.
• DU is 28-7 against the Bulldogs under Scott Nasby.

LAST TIME OUT

• RHP Markell Dixon held No. 15 Central Missouri hitless for the first 6 2/3 innings, but the Mules rallied for four runs in the seventh and four more in the eighth to claim an 8-2 victory over Drury Tuesday in Warrensburg.
• Dixon struck out five batters and held the Mules without a run or hit until Cole Funkhouser's two-out double in the seventh ended the senior right-hander's no-hit bid and sliced the Panthers' two-run lead in half. 
• Cole Kreisel followed with a two-run double off reliever Hayden Linton, giving the Mules a 3-2 lead.
• Ryker Edwards capped a string of three consecutive run-scoring hits with an RBI-single through the right side for a two-run UCM advantage.
• Central Missouri carried that momentum into the eighth when the first seven Mules to come to bat reached safely. 
• Back-to-back hits opened the rally, before four-straight walks forced home a pair of UCM runs, and Kreisel came through once again with a two-run single to stretch the margin to 8-2.

CRIDER CLIMBING

• INF Jackson Crider enters the weekend as Drury's career leader in batting (.420), on-base percentage (.532) and slugging percentage (.652).
• Additionally, the redshirt sophomore's .400 batting mark would rank as the No. 5 season average in program history if the season ended today.
• Crider also sits in second place on the Panthers' all-time hit-by-pitch list with 46, just five shy of Colton Jones' DU record of 51.

BAIN MAKES HIS MARK ON DU RECORD BOOK

• Connor Bain is leaving quite the impression on the Drury record book as well, with the senior outfielder becoming just the 10th Drury player to reach the 200-hit milestone March 21 at UIS.
• Bain, who is hitting a career-best .403 this season, ranks among Drury's all-time top 10 batters in career hits (7th), runs scored (7th), steals (t-6th) doubles (7th), walks (5th) and home runs (t-7th).
• He cracked the top 10 on DU's career home run chart with his 14th round-tripper as a Panther in DU's Feb. 22 victory at UCO, and currently sits five homers away from matching the DU program record of 25, held jointly by Luke Burk and Clayton Engel.
• Additionally, Bain has swiped 49 bases to rank sixth on the Panthers' career list, while teammate Luke Matschiner inched up to third on the same chart with 55 steals, just 21 away from Nick Thimesch's program record of 77.
• Bain was selected as NCAA Division II National Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on April 2, in addition to earning his second GLVC Player of the Week honor of the season earlier in the week.

PANTHERS ON THE PROWL

• Drury enters the weekend with the No. 1 offense in the GLVC with its .346 team batting average and 402 total hits on the season, ranking 10th and 23rd in the nation, respectively.
• DU leads the conference in doubles per game (2.56) and ranks third in both scoring (9.3) and slugging percentage (.531).
• The Drury offense caught fire over the course of a four-game win streak (Feb. 22-28) that saw the Panthers outscore the opposition by a combined 54-30 margin.
• The Panthers slugged .667 over the course of their streak, with 24 of their hits going for extra bases.
• DU batted a blistering .442 as a team, with eight different regulars hitting .421 or better during the same stretch, led by Greydon Miller's .563 average.
• Individually, Jackson Crider brings the No. 7 OBP (.509) in the GLVC into the weekend; he leads the league in HBPs (17).
• Miller ranks fifth in the circuit with a team-leading 42 RBIs, while his 48 hits ranks 10th in the conference.
• Logan Reidelberger leads the GLVC in doubles (14) and third in doubles per game (0.42).
• Miller ranks third in the circuit and 20th in the nation with his four triples, while Luke Matschiner's 1.48 runs scored per game is the No. 16 average in all of Division II baseball;
• Matschiner also ranks second in the GLVC in steals with 23, which ranks as the fifth-best single-season total in school history.

LOOKING AHEAD
The Panthers return to Mark Worley Field at Meador Park next weekend for the first of back-to-back four-game GLVC home series. Drury will host Upper Iowa next week, beginning with a 5 p.m., contest on Friday (April 17). 

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