Baseball: Ohio Northern (14-2 Overall) at Denison (6-7 Overall)
Tuesday, March 31, 2014, 6 pm, Big Red Field, Granville, Ohio
Tuesday's Game: Tuesday's game is the first of four games scheduled this week for Ohio Northern ... ONU will also host Mt St Joesph on Wed. and play twicve at John Carroll on Fri. ... Northern is coming off a 6-1, 4-5 split with Mount Union at Wander Field on Saturday ... Junior Nick Eltzroth turned in another fine pitching performance in Game 1, limiting WC to just 2 hits and 1 earned run in 8.0 innings of work to earn the win and improve to 5-0 on the season ... In Game 2, sophomore Devin Carr (2-1) picked up a tough luck loss, allowing just one hit and one unearned run in 7.0 innings of relief. ... Through 16 games this season, junior Nick Eltzroth leads the team in batting with a .500 average ... Freshman Dan McMullen is second at .474, freshman Jordan Bostater is second at .405 and senior Dan Belliveau is fourth at .382 ... Belliveau leads the team in home runs (5), hits (21), runs scored (30), RBIs (30) and stolen bases (10) ... On the mound, Eltzroth is 5-0 with a 0.52 ERA, junior Alex Crabtree is 3-0 with a 2.82 ERA and junior Devin Carr is 2-1 with a 0.82 ERA ... ONU is 22-3 in its last 25 games over the past two seasons ... The Big Red is looking to snap a modest 3-game losing streak after falling to nationally-ranked Marietta and Case Western Reserve (twice) last week ... georgie Montes and Ryan Mulligan lead Denison in batting with .479 and .370 averages, respectively ... Zack Huarte is 1-1 with a 2.65 ERA and Perley Provost is 1-1 with a 3.97 ERA to lead the DU pitching staff.
Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | .500 | 1. | Belliveau |
21 | 1. | Belliveau | 30 | 1. | Belliveau | 30 |
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| 2. | McMullen |
.474 | 2. | LaMarca | 19 | 2. | LaMarca | 24 | 2. | LaMarca | 17 | |||
| 3. |
Bostater | .405 |
Eltzroth | 19 |
3. | Foley |
14 |
3. | Eltzroth | 14 | ||||
| 4. | Belliveau | .382 |
4. |
Bostater | 15 |
Eltzroth |
9 |
4. | Bostater | 13 |
Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | 4 |
1. | Kopicky | 0.00 |
1. | Eltzroth |
33 |
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| 2. | Crabtree | 3 |
2. | Eltzroth |
0.52 | 2. |
Crabtree | 21 | ||
| 3. |
Carr | 2 | 3. | Carr |
0.82 |
3. | Storer |
15 | ||
| 4. | 4 Tied with |
1 | 4. | Crabtree | 2.82 |
4. |
Kopicky |
14 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the series between the two schools by an 8-5 margin ... ONU won all 3 meetings between the teams in 2014.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 74-58 (.562).