CHARLESTON, S.C. - After a heavy-hitting weekend, the CSU baseball team will look to take it's hot bats into midweek action. First up for the Bucs is a road trip to Clemson, where they will face the Tigers in a 6:30 p.m. contest on Tuesday. The team will then return home for a 2 p.m. slate vs. Savannah State on Wednesday at CSU Ballpark.

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CLEMSON SERIES HISTORY
Charleston Southern will be searching for its first win versus Clemson when they travel to Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Tuesday. Although this will be just the fourth meeting between the two schools in this millennium, the Tigers lead the overall series with CSU 15-0.

MEETINGS IN THE 2000's
02/26/2011 Clemson 16 CSU 1 Doug Kingsmore Stadium
05/05/2004 Clemson 3 CSU 2 Doug Kingsmore Stadium
02/26/2003 Clemson 5 CSU 0 Doug Kingsmore Stadium

TUESDAY'S PROBABLE STARTERS
CSU: Junior RHP Kevin Buran (0-4, 5.77 ERA, 34.1 IP, 11 BB, 20 K)
Clemson: Freshman RHP Daniel Gossett (3-2, 5.76 ERA, 33.1 IP, 15 BB, 41 K)

SAVANNAH STATE SERIES HISTORY
The Buccaneers of Charleston Southern welcome the Tigers of Savannah State back to CSU Ballpark for the second time this season on Wednesday afternoon. The two teams have split their season series thus far, 1-1, while CSU leads the overall series 11-8.

LAST FIVE MEETINGS
03/14/2012 Savannah State 3 CSU 2 Tiger Field
02/22/2012 CSU 9 Savannah State 3 CSU Ballpark
03/15/2011 Savannah State 8 CSU 7 Tiger Field
03/01/2011 CSU 5 Savannah State 3 CSU Ballpark
03/23/2010 CSU 12 Savannah State 6 Tiger Field

OFFENSE LEADS BUCS PAST GARDNER-WEBB
The CSU bats heated up over the weekend as the Bucs collected a team batting average of .393 during the three-game weekend series. They also had five doubles and five homeruns while collecting 12 or more hits in each contest. CSU's team batting average is now .283, which ranks them fourth in the Big South. In conference-only games, Charleston Southern is hitting .320 as a team, which ranks them second in the league.

HOMECOMING
Buccaneer pitching coach Adam Ward returns to his alma mater on Tuesday as the Bucs travel to Clemson. Ward was a member of the 2007 and 2009 Super Regional teams at Clemson and also hit .375 during the 2008 campaign.

STREAK WATCH
-Denis Buckley has gone 7 2/3 without allowing a run
-Zach Hagaman has not allowed an earned run in eight innings
-Jaren Sustar currently possesses a nine game hitting streak
-Alex Tomasovich has a streak of 10 straight games reaching base safely
-Sustar's streak of reaching base safely is now 11 games.

ON DECK
After two mid-week contests, Charleston Southern will hit the road for a Big South series as they travel to Clinton, S.C. to take on Presbyterian College for three games. CSU is coming off a BSC series win over Gardner-Webb, while the Blue Hose took two of three from High Point over the weekend.