Baseball: Ohio Northern (7-9 Overall) at Ohio Wesleyan (5-10 Overall)
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 4 p.m. – Littick Field, Delaware, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: The Ohio Northern baseball team travels to Delaware to play at Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday at 4 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off Tuesday's 12-11 home win over Trine (Ind.) in which senior Corey McMann, juniors Nate Webb and Jacob Wenning and sophomore Logan Stevens all hit home runs … Senior Chayten Overholt had three hits, including two doubles, in the game, tying him with McMann for the team lead … Stevens finished with a team-high four RBIs … Junior Jack Hutchins got the win on the mound to improve to 2-0 on the season, and freshman Blake Peterson earned his third save of the year … Wenning leads the team in batting average (.382) and hits (21) on the season … Webb leads ONU in runs (13) and is tied with Stevens for the team lead in RBIs (14) … McMann has six doubles this season and is tied for fifth all-time at ONU with 36 career doubles … McMann is tied for 33rd in program history with 132 career hits … Overholt needs 12 hits to join the 100-Hit Club … Freshman Joey Kennedy leads ONU in steals with eight, which is tied for sixth in the OAC … Sophomore Noah Truax leads the Polar Bears' pitching staff in ERA (1.86) and is tied with freshman Kyle Lawrence in strikeouts (20) … Truax ranks eighth in the OAC in ERA, and junior Tim Knapschaefer ranks ninth with a 2.14 ERA … Ohio Wesleyan enters Wednesday's game at 5-10 overall after splitting Sunday's doubleheader at Hanover (Ind.), falling 14-2 in Game 1 before winning 19-5 in Game 2 … The Battling Bishops are 4-0 at home this season … Ryan Stefancin (.400) and D.J. Neff (.313) lead OWU in batting average this season … Neff has a team-high 20 hits, six doubles and 11 RBIs … Gavin Pulliam leads the OWU pitching staff with a 2-1 record to go with a 3.06 ERA and 13 strikeouts over four starts spanning 17.2 innings.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
| Batting Ave. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Wenning | .382 | 1. | Wenning | 21 | 1. | Webb | 13 | 1. | Webb | 14 | |||
| 2. | McMann | .377 | 2. | McMann | 20 | 2. | McMann | 11 | Stevens | 14 | ||||
| 3. | Kennedy | .297 | 3. | Webb | 16 | Wenning | 11 | 3. | Overholt | 11 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
| Wins | ERA (Min. 6 Inn.) | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Truax | 2 | 1. | Truax | 1.86 | 1. | Truax | 20 | ||
| Hutchins | 2 | 2. | Knapschaefer | 2.14 | Lawrence | 20 | ||||
| 3. | Tootle | 1 | 3. | Hunter | 4.82 | 3. | Knapschaefer | 19 | ||
| Duncan | 1 | |||||||||
| Knapschaefer | 1 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Ohio Wesleyan by a 29-27-2 margin but is 8-18-1 against OWU on the road… ONU has won four of the past six games in the series … The teams last met in 2018 and played three times that season with OWU going 2-1 in those games.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 215-162 record, a winning percentage of .570.