Baseball: Muskingum (11-13 Overall, 1-7 OAC) at Ohio Northern (11-15 Overall, 2-6 OAC)

Friday, April 15, 2022, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Friday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues its Ohio Athletic Conference schedule on Friday with a home doubleheader against Muskingum beginning at 1 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off dropping both games of a doubleheader to Otterbein on Tuesday … Northern fell 6-3 in Game 1 and 10-4 in Game 2 and tallied a combined 19 hits in the two-game set … ONU got a double from senior Chayten Overholt and a triple from sophomore Dakota Durick in Game 1 and a double from senior Corey McMann and home runs from junior Jacob Wenning and freshman Ethan Spears in Game 2 … Through 26 games, Wenning leads the team in batting average (.392), hits (38), runs (20) and RBIs (22) … McMann ranks second on the team in batting average (.385) and hits (35) … Spears leads the team with five home runs, and Wenning is second with four … Freshman Joey Kennedy has a team-high nine stolen bases … McMann has 10 doubles this season, which is tied for sixth in the OAC, and is tied for third all-time at ONU with 40 career doubles … McMann is tied for 22nd in program history with 147 career hits … Overholt needs two hits to join the 100-Hit Club … Sophomore Noah Truax leads the Polar Bears' pitching staff in ERA (1.86), and junior Tim Knapschaefer ranks second with a 2.61 ERA … Knapschaefer has a team-high 34 strikeouts and ranks ninth among qualified pitchers in the OAC in ERA … Muskingum enters Friday's doubleheader at 11-13 overall and riding a four-game losing streak coming off Tuesday's doubleheader sweep at the hands of No. 1 Marietta, falling 19-8 and 10-8 … The Fighting Muskies tallied a combined 22 hits in the two-game set … MU got three hits from Devin Ryan and four RBIs from Gavin Hawk in Game 1 and was led by Dominic Gorence (3 hits, 5 RBIs) and Quinten Collins (3 hits, 2 RBIs) in Game 2 … Ryan leads MU in batting average (.396), hits (40), doubles (13), home runs (5) and RBIs (22) … Ryan ranks second in the OAC in doubles and is tied for fifth in homers and tied for 10th in hits … Jake Norris leads the MU pitching staff with a 1.89 ERA and 35 strikeouts, ranking third and 10th, respectively, in the OAC in those categories.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Muskingum by a 45-33 margin, including a 22-16 mark at home … ONU has won five straight meetings and eight of the past nine … The teams met four times in the 2021 season with ONU going 4-0 in those games by a combined margin of 35-13.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 219-168 record, a winning percentage of .566.