Baseball: Mt. St. Joseph (7-10 Overall) at #23 Ohio Northern (14-3 Overall)
Wednesday, April 1, 2014, 4 pm, Wander Field, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Game: The Polar Bears enter today’s game ranked No. 23 nationally by D3baseball.com ... ONU is coming off a 10-3 loss at Denison on Tue. ... Senior Brady Foley hit his second career home run to lead the ONU offense ... Through 17 games this season, freshman Dan McMullen leads the team in batting with a .458 average ... Junior Nick Eltzroth is second at .442, freshman Jordan Bostater is third at .390 and senior Dan Belliveau is fourth at .368 ... Belliveau leads the team in home runs (5), hits (21), runs scored (30) and RBIs (30) ... 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 ... Belliveau has cracked ONU’s all-time career top-10 list in five categories ... He is 2nd in 3Bs (13), 2nd in RBI (129), is 4th in total bases (268), is 8th in HRs (17) and runs (123) and is t9th in hits (163) ... The Lions are coming off a 14-8 loss to Earlham (Ind.) in an HCAC battle on Tuesday ... EC jumped to a 10-1 lead, but MSJ scored 6 in the seventh inning to pull within 10-7 ... Drew Werner and Zach Farmer each went 3-for-5 to lead the MSJ offense ... Ronald Cotton, Farmer and Werner lead the Lions in batting with .409, .389 and .356 averages, respectively ... Cotton leads the team with 2 HRs and a .652 slugging pct. ... Jacob Gunnell is 1-2 with a 2.84 ERA and Nathan Lambert is 1-0 with a 3.60 ERA to lead the pitching staff.
Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | McMullen |
.458 | 1. | Belliveau |
21 | 1. | Belliveau | 30 | 1. | Belliveau | 30 |
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| 2. | Eltzroth |
.442 | 2. | LaMarca | 20 | 2. | LaMarca | 25 | 2. | LaMarca | 17 | |||
| 3. |
Bostater | .390 |
3. |
Eltzroth | 19 |
3. | Foley |
15 |
3. | Eltzroth | 14 | |||
| 4. | Belliveau | .368 |
4. |
Bostater | 16 |
4. |
Eltzroth |
9 |
4. | Bostater | 13 |
Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | 4 |
1. | Eltzroth | 0.52 |
1. | Eltzroth |
33 |
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| 2. | Crabtree | 3 |
2. | Carr | 0.82 | 2. |
Crabtree | 21 | ||
| 3. |
Carr | 2 | 3. | Kopicky | 1.56 |
3. | Kopicky | 16 | ||
| 4. | 4 Tied with |
1 | 4. | Crabtree | 2.82 |
4. |
Storer |
15 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the series between the two schools by a 2-0 margin ... ONU won last year 9-2 at MSJ and won in 2004 in Ada 12-4..
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 74-59 (.556).