Baseball: #23 Ohio Northern (24-7 Overall) at Case Western Reserve (17-10 Overall)
Tuesday, April 25, 2015, 2 pm, Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio
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Tuesday's Game: The Polar Bears will travel to Cleveland for a non-conference battle with Case Western Reserve at Progressive Field, the home of the Cleveland Indians ... ONU is ranked No. 23 nationally by D3baseball.com ... There is no charge for admission, but all fans must have a ticket ... ONU is coming off a 19-6 victory over area-rival Bluffton at Wander Field on Sunday in a game that was called after 6 innings due to rain ... Senior Jack LaMarca hit for the cycle for the second time this season ... LaMarca was 4-for-5 with 3 RBI, 5 runs scored and two singles, a double, a triple and a home run ... He doubled in the first, hit a 2-run home run in the second, singled in the fourth and tripled in the sixth ... LaMarca also hit for the cycle in ONU's 17-3 victory over Northland (Wis.) on March 2 in Fort Myers, Fla. ... Senior Dan Belliveau went 3-for-5 with 3 RBI, freshman Jordan Bostater went 3-for-4 with 2 RBI, freshman Brandon Kasberg was 2-for-4 with 4 RBI and senior Brady Foley was 2-for-3 with 3 runs scored as part of ONU's 18-hit attack ... Through 31 games this season, junior Nick Eltzroth leads the team in batting with a .393 average ... Belliveau is second at .379, Bostater is third at .378 and freshman Dan McMullen is fourth at .352 ... Belliveau leads the team and the OAC in runs scored (45) and is among the OAC leaders in RBIs (46) home runs (6), stolen bases (19) and slugging percentage (.647) ... On the mound, Eltzroth leads the team with a 6-2 record and a 3.10 ERA ... Freshman T.J. Storer is 2-0 with 3 saves and a 2.38 ERA and junior Devin Carr is 3-2 with a 3.05 ERA ... Belliveau borke ONU's all-time total base record with 301 in his four-year career ... He currently ranks second all-time at ONU with 186 career base hits, 145 RBI and 14 triples ... He is just 11 hits shy of the school record 197 hits by Scott Bush from 1998-2001, 11 RBI shy of the record 157 by Ron Ruhe from 1983-86 and 1 triple short of the record 15 by Brian Ramsey from 1985-88 ... He also ranks third with 138 runs, seventh in home runs with 19 and is sixth in doubles with 30 ... LaMarca ranks 24th all-time at ONU with 139 career base hits and is 10th with 72 walks ... Eltzroth is just 5 base hits away from becoming the 58th member of ONU's 100-Hit Club and is just one strikeout away from becoming the 24th member of ONU's 100-K Club on the mound ... The Spartans are coming off a double header split with Wittenberg on Saturday, winning Game 2 9-3 after falling in Game 1 3-2 ... Kerrigan Cain leads CWR in batting with a .358 average and 19 RBI ... Danny Souza is second at .349 and Andrew Gronski is third at .347 ... On the mound, Connor Tagg is 4-1 with a 3.09 ERA and Daniel Sondag is 2-1 with 7 saves and a 1.88 ERA.
ONU Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | .393 | 1. | Belliveau |
44 | 1. | Belliveau | 45 | 1. | Belliveau | 46 |
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| 2. | Belliveau | .379 | 2. |
LaMarca | 40 | 2. | LaMarca | 40 | 2. | LaMarca | 29 | |||
| 3. |
Bostater | .378 |
3. |
Bostater | 34 |
3. | Foley |
22 |
Bostater | 29 | ||||
| 4. |
McMullen |
.352 |
4. |
Eltzroth | 33 |
4. |
McMullen |
17 |
4. | Eltzroth |
23 |
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| Eltzroth | 17 |
ONU Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
Saves | |||||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | 6 |
1. | Storer | 2.38 |
1. | Eltzroth |
44 |
1. | Storer | 3 | |||
| 2. | Crabtree | 3 |
2. | Carr | 3.05 | 2. |
Crabtree | 34 | 2. | 4 tied with | 1 | |||
| Eckert |
3 |
3. | Eltzroth | 3.10 |
3. | Storer | 24 | |||||||
| 4. | Crabtree |
3.35 |
4. |
Kopicky | 23 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the series between the two schools by a 2-0 margin ... Tuesday's games will be the first meeting in 85 years after ONU won two games in 1929 by scores of 9-3 and 11-6.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 84-63 (.571).
