For a group of nine Western Kentucky baseball seniors, this weekend will be the final series in the confines of Nick Denes Field.

The Hilltoppers take on Florida Atlantic in a three-game set Friday through Sunday, with the Friday, Saturday and Sunday contests starting at 5 p.m., 1 p.m. and noon, respectively.

On the offensive end, Thomas Peter and Hunter Wood are a pair of seniors swinging the bat as well as any Hilltopper this season. Hitting primarily in the No. 2 or 4 spot in the lineup, Peter leads the team with 10 home runs, 12 doubles and 34 runs batted in. Wood, meanwhile, is slashing a team-best .308/.388/.541 mark and ranks second with nine homers.

Wood has started 44-of-49 games as a backstop while catching about 90 percent of the team’s total defensive innings. He has thrown out 21-of-57 (37 percent) of potential base stealers, which leads Conference USA and ranks seventh in the nation.

It will be a pair of juniors taking the mound for the first two games of the series, as lefty Ryan Thurston and righty Paul Kirkpatrick get nods for the Friday and Saturday starts.

Thurston is coming off an eight-plus inning start at Marshall, his longest outing of the season, in which he struck out nine and walked only one. The Madison, Ind., native took the tough-luck decision in a 3-2, walk-off loss in Huntington, W.Va. Kirkpatrick, meanwhile, looks to return to the form when he allowed three or fewer earned runs in 6-of-8 starts to begin his career on The Hill.

In the bullpen sits two seniors with successful years in relief. Righties Kevin Elder and Jackson Sowell have combined for 66.1 innings over 34 appearances with 67 strikeouts and a 3.93 earned run average. The two boast 5-of-6 WKU saves this season, but have pitched in every kind of situation across their careers.

Leiff Clarkson, Cody Coll, Ty Hogan, Paul Murray and Chris Rogers round out the 2017 senior class, each in the home stretch of successful careers as Hilltoppers. The special recognition will take place before Sunday’s contest at 11:25 a.m.; approximately 35 minutes prior to first pitch.

The Owls, meanwhile, come to town following a three-game sweep at the hands of now-No. 22 Southern Miss. FAU plans to pitch righties Alex House and Blake Sanderson in the first two contests, then lefty Jake Miednik in the finale. WKU’s third starter remains TBA at this time.