HENDERSON, Nev. (April 24, 2019) – The No. 9 College of Southern Nevada baseball team is still in the hunt for the Scenic West Athletic Conference title.
 
The Coyotes are just percentage points behind No. 17 Salt Lake Community College in the race for the top seed in the league as they enter the final two weeks of the season. Both CSN and SLCC will square off in the season's final weekend next week but first Southern Nevada will travel to play its final road series of the season at USU Eastern. The four-game series, which is set to begin on Friday with a doubleheader, will help tell the story of how critical CSN's series with SLCC the last weekend will be.
 
Coyotes coach Nick Garritano said his team is excited for the opportunity to have one more road trip this weekend.
 
"We are expecting a very tough, competitive series this weekend against USU Eastern," he said. "Every team in our league plays their best baseball at home and USU Eastern is no different."
 
Southern Nevada played very well at Morse Stadium last weekend, sweeping a four-game series with Colorado Northwestern Community College. The Coyotes outscored the Spartans by a margin of 46-5, devastating CNCC with a combination of location-based pitching and unrelenting contact hitting. 
 
Garritano said his team continues to improve as they head down the stretch.
 
"We simply want to keep improving each week to play our best baseball in the month of May," he said. "We feel we saw the baseball very well this past weekend against CNCC. We feel that we may have played our most complete series of baseball we have all season."
 
USU Eastern enters the series on a four-game slide after falling to Salt Lake Community College in a four-game series last weekend. The Eagles were swept in the series and were run-ruled in the final game. The team is on a seven-game losing streak.
 
Regardless of the opponent, Garritano said his team can't lose focus of the team in front of them, in spite of the outside presence of postseason implications.
 
"We are expecting a very tough competitive series this weekend against USU Eastern," he said.  "Every team in our league plays their best baseball at home and USU Eastern is no different. The weather looks to be nice which will be a vast difference from every other road series we have played this year as it has been a very cold winter on the road."
 
CSN and USU Eastern will play a four-game series that is made up of doubleheaders on both Friday and Saturday.