HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team opens a busy week on Tuesday when it travels to New Orleans for the second time this season to face in-state rival Tulane at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The game can be heard in the Hammond area on KSLU-FM (90.9) and on the internet at www.LionSports.net.

The meeting between Southeastern (24-13) and Tulane (21-15) is the third between the schools in 2011 with each team winning on its home field. The Lions claimed the first meeting between the rivals, 13-1, on Feb. 22 in Hammond before Tulane, then ranked No. 22 nationally, recorded a 7-3 win on March 15 in New Orleans.

Both teams look to get back in the win column after suffering losses to wrap up their respective conference weekend. Southeastern dropped a 7-5 decision at Southland Conference co-leader Texas State while the Green Wave fell at Conference USA leader Rice, 11-1.

Southeastern, which enters the game with a .288 batting average and 20 home runs, is led at the plate by shortstop Justin Boudreaux with a .362 average. The junior leads the team in runs scored (41) and hits (54) while ranking second in home runs (6), RBI (31), doubles (10) and stolen bases (9).

Brock Hebert (.346-1-21) is next in hitting for Southeastern followed by Jonathan Pace (.343-1-25) and Jeff Harkensee (.322-7-41), the team leader in both home runs and RBI.

Former Holy Cross product Cass Hargis (.295-0-13), who has recorded 272 hits in his career, is four hits shy of tying former Lion Ty Summerlin for the top mark in school history. The fifth-year senior has started a school-record tying 210-of-212 games in his career and became the first player in Southeastern to score 200 runs.

Josh Cryer (.290-2-27), third in school history in hits (213) and doubles (46), leads Southeastern in doubles (11) and is third on the team in RBI while Cody Gougler (.268-1-17) is tied for the team-lead in walks (18).

Redshirt freshman Matt Pittari (0-0, 1.96 ERA) will start on the mound for Southeastern. The former Fontainebleau High product has started games this season against Sacred Heart and UNO and pitched 4.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen in Southeastern's previous meeting with the Green Wave.

Since a 16-15 extra-inning victory over Southern Miss on March 26, Tulane has dropped 10 of its last 13 games including six straight at home. The Green Wave opened their home drought with a 6-1 loss at Florida International before dropping three straight to C-USA rival Houston.

The Green Wave added home losses against LSU and South Alabama before dropping two of three at Rice.

Jeremy Schaffer leads Tulane at the plate with a .381 average, five home runs, 18 doubles and 28 RBI. Nick Bollusa (.282-1-13) is next in hitting for the Green Wave, who enter the game with a .258 average.

True freshman Wade Konvicka (0-0, 5.40 ERA) will make his second career appearance on the mound for Tulane after tossing five innings against South Alabama last week in his first career appearance.