Baseball: Capital (12-18 Overall, 4-10 OAC) at #22 Ohio Northern (26-8 Overall, 9-5 OAC)

April 24, 2015

Saturday, April 25, 2015, 1 pm, Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Games: The Polar Bears will celebrate Senior day on Saturday prior to the double header with Capital ... Ohio Northern will honor seniors Dan Belliveau, Brady Foley, Derek Lenardos and Jack LaMarca ... ONU is coming off a 11-2, 2-0 sweep at Kalamazoo (Mich.) on Thursday ... Junior Devin Carr and freshman D.J. Gotz had solid pitching outings to lead ONU ... Junior Nick Eltzroth finished the day 3-for-7 and now has 98 career base hits ... He is just 2 hits away from becoming the away 58th member of ONU’s 100-Hit Club and is just 1 strikeout away from becoming the 24th member of ONU’s 100-K Club on the mound ... Through 34 games this season, Eltzroth leads the team in batting with a .383 average ... Freshman Jordan Bostater is second at .370 and Belliveau is third at .362 ... Belliveau leads the team and ranks among the OAC leaders in HRs (7), runs (48) and RBIs (47) ... On the mound, Eltzroth is 6-2 with a 3.10 ERA, junior Alex Crabtree is 5-0 with a 3.35 ERA and junior Devin Carr is 4-2 with a 2.64 ERA ... ONU leads the OAC with a 3.40 staff ERA ... Belliveau is ONU's all-time total base record holder with 302 in his four-year career ... He currently ranks second all-time at ONU with 187 career base hits, 146 RBI and 14 triples ... He is just 10 hits shy of the school record 197 hits by Scott Bush from 1998-2001, 10 RBI shy of the record 157 by Ron Ruhe from 1983-86 and 1 triple short of the record 15 by Brian Ramsey from 1985-88 ... He also ranks third with 138 runs, seventh in home runs with 19 and is sixth in doubles with 30 ... LaMarca ranks 22nd all-time at ONU with 141 career base hits and is 10th with 72 walks ... Eltzroth is just 5 base hits away from becoming the 58th member of ONU's 100-Hit Club and is just one strikeout away from becoming the 24th member of ONU's 100-K Club on the mound ... The Crusaders are looking to snap an 8-game losing streak after defeating #7 Heidelberg 17-12 on April 10 ... CU fell 3-2 and 6-4 at then-#24 John Carroll last Saturday and dropped a 3-1 decision at Wittenberg on Wednesday ... Sophomore Justin Ennis leads the team with a .371 batting average and sophomore Logan Bastin is second in batting at .345 with team-highs of 40 hits and 26 RBI ... Sophomore Jacob Sheaf is 3-3 with a 4.00 is 1-0 with a 3.63 ERA to lead the pitching staff.

ONU Batting Leaders

  Batting Average
    
Hits       Runs       RBIs  
1.  Eltzroth .383   1.  Belliveau
 48   1.  Belliveau  48   1.  Belliveau  47
2. Bostater .370   2.
 LaMarca 43   2. LaMarca 41   2. Bostater 34
3.
 Belliveau .362
   3.
 Bostater 37
   3. Foley
 23
   3.
 LaMarca 30
4.
 McMullen 
 .358
   4.
 Eltzroth 36
   4.
 Eltzroth 21
   4. Eltzroth
 26
 

            McMullen 21        

ONU Pitching Leaders

  Wins
    
ERA       Strikeouts
       Saves  
1.  Eltzroth 6
   1. Storer 2.28
   1.  Eltzroth
 44
   1. Storer 3
2. Crabtree 5
   2. Carr 2.64   2.
 Crabtree 34   2. 5 tied with 1
3.
 Carr 4
   3. Eltzroth 3.10
   3. Storer 25        
4.
 Eckert 3
   4.  Crabtree 
 3.35
  
Kopicky 25
        

All-Time Series: ONU leads the series between the two schools by a 49-24 margin ... ONU has won 3 straight in the series, including an 8-3, 9-0 sweep at Capital last year.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 86-64 (.573).