Baseball: Mount Union (9-6 Overall, 0-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (13-1 Overall, 2-0 OAC)
Saturday, March 28, 2014, 1 pm, Wander Field, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Doubleheader: Saturday's doubleheader is the second of 9 OAC twin bills on ONU's schedule this year ... ONU is riding a 12-game winning streak, which is 2 short of the school record ... ONU won 14 straight in 1974 and started the 1931 season with a 14-0 mark ... The Polar Bears have had their two non-conference games postponed this week due to inclement weather ... Northern is coming off a 14-0, 9-2 sweep at Wilmington last Saturday ... Junior Nick Eltzroth turned in another fine pitching performance in Game 1, limiting WC to just three hits while striking out a career-high 11 in 8.0 innings of work to earn the win ... In Game 2, freshmen Brandon Kasberg and Ben Wake had back-to-back RBI singles to key a 4-run second inning to put Ohio Northern up 4-0 early ... Junior Alex Crabtree improved to 3-0 on the year, allowing just five hits and two runs in 7.0 innings on the mound ... Through 14 games this season, junior Nick Eltzroth leads the team in batting with a .500 average ... Freshman Jordan Bostater is second at .400 and senior Dan Belliveau is third at .396 ... Belliveau leads the team in home runs (5), hits (19), runs scored (27) and RBIs (29) ... On the mound, Eltzroth is 4-0 with a 0.68 ERA, Crabtree is 3-0 with a 1.29 ERA and junior Devin Carr is 2-0 with a 1.20 ERA ... ONU is 21-2 over its last 23 games over the past two seasons ... The Purple Raiders snapped a 3-game losing streak with an 11-9 victory at Thiel (Pa.) on Wednesday ... MtU opened its OAC slate with a 7-1, 7-0 sweep at the hands of John Carroll last Saturday ... Nick Piotrowski and Sean Mahoney lead the Purple Raiders in batting with .424 and .397 averages, respectively ... Kyle Toma is 3-1 with a 3.38 ERA and Wes Kemp is 2-1 with a 6.38 ERA to lead the pitching staff.
Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | .500 | 1. | Belliveau |
19 | 1. | Belliveau | 27 | 1. | Belliveau | 29 |
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| 2. | Bostater |
.400 | 2. | LaMarca | 17 | 2. | LaMarca | 22 | 2. | LaMarca | 16 | |||
| 3. |
Belliveau | .396 |
Eltzroth | 17 |
3. | Foley |
14 |
3. | Eltzroth | 14 | ||||
| 4. | LaMarca | .340 |
4. |
Bostater | 12 |
Eltzroth |
8 |
4. | Bostater | 10 |
Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | 4 |
1. | Kopicky | 0.00 |
1. | Eltzroth |
27 |
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| 2. | Crabtree | 3 |
2. | Eltzroth |
0.68 | 2. |
Crabtree | 20 | ||
| 3. |
Carr | 2 | 3. | Carr |
1.20 |
3. | Kopicky | 14 | ||
| 4. | 4 Tied with |
1 | 4. | Crabtree | 1.29 |
Storer | 14 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the series between the two schools by a 58-34-1 margin ... The two teams spilt last year's doubleheader in Alliance, with ONU winning Game 1 7-3 and MtU winning the nightcap 5-4.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 73-57 (.562).