SPRINGFIELD, IL --- The Prairie Stars (20-16, 8-8) have won five of their last seven contests and will now turn their attention to the Rangers of Wisconsin – Parkside (6-24, 2-14). This will be the penultimate home GLVC series for the Prairie Stars, who will host UIndy next weekend. UIS currently sits in fifth place in the GLVC east, needing to gain one game on Lewis to garner the fourth spot in the GLVC tournament.

SETTING THE SCENE
UIS enters the series after beating Truman State in an intra-divisional match-up on Tuesday, grabbing a 4-1 victory over the Bulldogs. The Prairie Stars have won their last six non-conference games, while splitting each of their four GLVC series, splitting their last four double headers.

The Rangers are coming off a four-game set with #19 UIndy, as they took one of four from the Greyhounds, posting a 3-0 shutout win in the third game of the series. The Rangers have won just two games in the GLVC, but both games have come off of the best the conference has to offer, UIndy and Southern Indiana --- who the Prairie Stars beat twice.

GLVC RANKINGS
The Rangers currently rank 16^th in the league in team batting average hitting just .257 on the season with a .333 on-base percentage. UIS currently ranks sixth in average, coming in at just two points below the .300 mark.

Parkside also ranks last in team-ERA, posting a 7.03 mark on the season, while UIS sits eighth sporting a 4.56 ERA. The Prairie Stars rank near the top of the league in fielding percentage, making just 54 errors on the season, good for a .958 fielding percentage. UW – Parkside ranks 16^th in the league, making 57 errors for a .944 fielding percentage.

HITTING THE CENTURY MARK
UIS has now accumulated 100 program wins since the inception of the program in 2011. In their 4-1 win over Truman State on Wednesday, the Prairie Stars picked up the milestone win, giving current head coach, Chris Ramirez, 70 of the 100 wins.

ALL-TIME SERIES
The Prairie Stars trail the all-time series to the Rangers 5-to-8 as the Rangers took the first three match-ups in 2011 before the two teams split the next ten games. Last season, in Kenosha, the two-teams split the four-game series with UIS winning the two middle games 5-2 and 6-2.

WHO TO WATCH FOR
Kyohei Makita leads the team and is ranked eighth in the conference batting average, hitting at a .394 clip this season. The junior from Tokyo, Japan has ten multi-hit games on the season and has struck out just eight times in 104 at-bats. Tyler Jandron leads the pitching staff with a 2.72 ERA boasting a 2-3 record on the season with two complete games. In 43 innings, Jandron has surrendered just 39 hits and struck out 55 batters. Jandron took home Pitcher of the Week honors last week for his complete game shutout of #19 UIndy in the Rangers lone win of the series.

The Prairie Stars now have seven players hitting over .300 for the season as senior outfielder Jake Redlinger has become red-hot, hitting .348 on the season. He is third on the team in doubles, with eight, and has scored 13 runs on the year.

Gabriel Acevedo is putting together one of the best seasons in the conference, hitting .379 and totaling 13 doubles and six homeruns with a team high 26 RBI on the season.

WHO'S ON DECK
With 15 games remaining, the Prairie Stars will host UIndy in their final home GLVC series of the season next weekend before ending the regular season at Saint Joseph's in the first weekend of May. UIS will travel to Quincy on the 27^th for a mid-week matchup before hosting Lincoln University for the final home game of the season on May 3^rd.