Baseball: #7 Wooster (30-5 Overall) at #20 Ohio Northern (28-8 Overall)

April 28, 2015

Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 4 pm, Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Game: The Polar Bears enter today’s game ranked No. 20 nationally by D3baseball.com ... Today looks to be the final home game of the regular season for the Polar Bears, as the Wednesday contest with Ohio Wesleyan was cencelled ... ONU is coming off a 5-2, 4-1 sweep of Capital on Sunday ... Juniors Nick Eltzroth and Alex Crabtree each picked up wins on the hill ... Eltzroth had five strikeouts against the Crusaders, giving him 104 in his career and making him the 24th member of ONU’s 100-K Club on the mound ... He is also just 2 hits away from becoming the away 58th member of ONU’s 100-Hit Club ... Freshman Jordan Bostater leads the team in batting with a .370 average ... Eltzroth is second at .367, senior Dan Belliveau is third in hitting at .356 and senior Jack LaMarca is fourth at .338 ... On the mound, Eltzroth is 7-2 with a 3.03 ERA, Crabtree is 6-0 with a 2.93 ERA and sophomore Devin Carr is 4-2 with a 2.64 ERA ... ONU leads the OAC with a 3.29 staff ERA ... The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season with a critical OAC double header at #7 Heidelberg ... ONU clinches a spot in the OAC Tournament with a win and would share the OAC Regular Season title with a sweep. ... Belliveau is ONU's all-time total base record holder with 306 in his four-year career ... He currently ranks second all-time at ONU with 190 career base hits, 147 RBI and 14 triples ... He is just 7 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 143 runs, seventh in home runs with 19 and is sixth in doubles with 31 ... LaMarca ranks 20th all-time at ONU with 145 career base hits and is 10th with 73 walks ... The #7-ranked Scots are riding a 10-game winning streak, which includes 4-game sweeps of Hiram and Oberlin and wins over John Carroll and #7 Heidelberg ... CW is averaging 10.6 runs per game and is batting at a .343 clip ... Senior Frank Vance leads the team with a .408 batting average and freshman Jake Fling is second at .376 ... Sophomore Jamie Lackner is hitting .364 with 14 HRs and 51 RBI ... Sophomore Michael Houdek is 6-0 with a 2.53 ERA to lead the pitching staff..

ONU Batting Leaders

  Batting Average
    
Hits       Runs       RBIs  
1.  Eltzroth .371   1.  Belliveau
 48   1.  Belliveau  50   1.  Belliveau  48
2. Bostater .370   2.
 LaMarca 46   2. LaMarca 42   2. Bostater 36
3.
 Belliveau .356
   3.
 Bostater 40
   3. Foley
 24
   3.
 LaMarca 32
4.
 LaMarca
 .338
   4.
 Eltzroth 36
   4.
 McMullen 22
   4. Eltzroth
 26

ONU Pitching Leaders

  Wins
    
ERA       Strikeouts
       Saves  
1.  Eltzroth 7
   1. Storer 2.10
   1.  Eltzroth
 49
   1. Storer 4
2. Crabtree 6
   2. Carr 2.64   2.
 Crabtree 41   2. 6 tied with 1
3.
 Carr 4
   3. Crabtree 2.93
   3. Storer 26        
4.
 Eckert 3
   4.  Eltzroth
 3.03
   4.
 Kopicky 25
        

All-Time Series: CW leads the series between the two schools by an 18-14-1 margin ... CW has won 3 straight in the series, including a 16-8 win at Wooster last season.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his fourth season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 88-64 (.579).