CHICAGO -- The UIC baseball team gets set for four games in two days with a pair of doubleheaders this Saturday and Sunday. UIC will first play two at Northern Kentucky on Saturday before returning home for a doubleheader against Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday.

FIRST PITCH
•    The Flames have a pair that rank inside the top-10 in the Horizon League in hitting as Bryan Rosario ranks third overall with a .348 batting average while Rayth Petersen is seventh (.326).
•    The 21 runs scored by UIC over Purdue Fort Wayne last time out are the most runs scored by any Horizon League team in any game this year while the seven doubles in the contest also rank as the highest single-game output by a League team this year.

1-2 PUNCH
•    The tandem of Nate Peterson and Tyler Ingram have excelled at the top of UIC's rotation.
•    Ingram ranks second among Horizon League starters with a 2.97 ERA while Peterson ranks third with a 3.23 earned run average.
•    Peterson ranks first among all Horizon League pitchers with a 4.67 strikeout-to-walk ratio while sitting fourth in the League with 70 strikeouts on the season.
•    Another starter for the Flames, Cristian Lopez, has a team-leading five wins on the season, tied for the most in the Horizon League.
•    UIC's team ERA of 5.06 is tops in the Horizon League, nearly half a point better than second-place Youngstown State (5.55).

B1G WINS
•    The Flames improved to 3-1 against Big Ten teams this year with a 13-0 win over Northwestern in seven innings on May 4.
•    Earlier this year, UIC picked up a road win against Purdue (10-9) before returning home and taking down the Boilermakers by a 9-6 score on April 19.
•    The Flames' lone defeat was at Northwestern on April 5. Since that game, UIC has going 11-3 in its last 14 games.
•    UIC has one more Big Ten opponent on the schedule, hosting Iowa on May 17.

FLAMES HEAT UP
•    The Flames have begun to heat up, entering the home stretch of the season having won 11 of its last 13 contests.
•    UIC swept Purdue Fort Wayne last weekend, its first three-game sweep of the season, after scoring a season-high 21 runs in the series finale.
•    The Flames have outscored its opponents 107-51 over the stretch, averaging 8.2 runs per game while limiting teams to 3.9 runs per contest.
•    After starting the month 1-4, the Flames ended the month 9-2 before picking up a win over the 'Dons in the first game of May and a win over Northwestern last time out.