The Auburn baseball team will return home for a short two-game home stand today and Wednesday, as it plays host to Alabama A&M at 6:30 p.m. on both days.

Auburn is coming off of a series sweep at new national No. 1 Arizona State, but does own a six-game home winning streak coming into tonight’s contest.

Auburn (9-5) brings a .350 team batting average into the contest, which is second in the Southeastern Conference to just Vanderbilt (.352).

Leading the offense are juniors Brian Fletcher (.421), Hunter Morris (.415) and Tony Caldwell (.353), with Fletcher and Morris ranking fourth and fifth, respectively, in the conference individually.

Morris carries a seven-game hitting streak into the contest in which he is hitting .500 (16-for-32) with two doubles, four home runs and a team-high eight runs and 11 RBI.

His four home runs, which includes shots in each of the last two games, have inched him up Auburn’s career home run list with 27, three shy of cracking the top 10.

Neither team has announced who will start on the hill as of this point.

Wednesday is ALLKids Youth Night and youth 12-and-under are admitted free with a cap and glove.

Softball’s Thompson honored by SEC
Auburn softball senior Anna Thompson has been named the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Week for the second consecutive week, the
league office announced Monday.

The Huntsville native has now earned three SEC Pitcher of the Week honors in her career. Thompson was named SEC Pitcher of the Week on March 8 earlier this season and once in 2009.

Against Kentucky, Thompson started and threw a pair of complete games in notching wins in games one and three of the series. For the weekend, Thompson threw 16 innings, allowed 10 hits, two runs, one earned run, walked four and struck out 18 batters.

Thompson allowed only 2-of-16 leadoff hitters to reach base in the two games and held Kentucky to a .175 batting average.

The shutout was the 16th of Thompson’s career which is the second most in Auburn history. Thompson is seven shutouts off the Auburn record of
23 held by Holly Currie and Kristen Keyes.

Thompson and the Tigers (15-7, 2-1 SEC) hit the road to take on No. 4 Florida on Wednesday in Gainesville.