Baseball: Ohio Northern (5-8 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at #1 Marietta (13-2 Overall, 0-0 OAC)

Saturday, March 26, 2022, 1 p.m. – Pioneer Park, Marietta, Ohio

Saturday's Preview: The Ohio Northern baseball team opens Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday with a doubleheader at No. 1 Marietta beginning at 1 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off Thursday's 20-8 home win over Alma (Mich.) … Sophomore Logan Stevens led the way for ONU with three hits, including a three-run homer, and eight RBIs in the victory … Sophomore Dakota Durick also had three hits, including a double, and junior Nate Webb added a home run, double and three RBIs … Junior Jacob Wenning also finished with three RBIs … In all, 11 Polar Bears tallied at least one hit in the game … Wenning leads the team in batting average (.356) and hits (16) on the season … Webb leads ONU in runs (11) and RBIs (12) … Freshman Joey Kennedy leads ONU in steals (8) … Sophomore Noah Truax leads the Polar Bears' pitching staff in wins (2), ERA (2.08) and strikeouts (18) … Truax ranks 11th in the OAC in ERA … Senior Corey McMann ranks sixth all-time at ONU with 35 career doubles and ranks 42nd in program history with 126 career hits … Senior Chayten Overholt needs 16 hits to join the 100-Hit Club … Marietta enters Saturday's doubleheader at 13-2 overall and ranked No. 1 nationally in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll … The Pioneers are riding a seven-game win streak coming off Thursday's 31-6 home win over La Roche (Pa.) in seven innings … MC tied a school and OAC record with 11 doubles to go with four home runs as part of its 17 extra-base hits and 27 hits overall in the game … Senior Logan Vietmeier leads the team in batting average (.483), is tied with senior Turner Hill for the team lead in hits (28) and tied with seniors Brett Carson and Zach Boyd for the team lead in home runs (3) … Boyd has a team-high 27 RBIs, which leads the OAC … Vietmeier leads the OAC in batting average, and Hill (.467) ranks second … Vietmeier and Hill are tied for fourth in the OAC in hits … Vietmeier, Carson and Boyd are tied for fourth in the OAC in home runs … The Pioneers' top pitchers this season include junior Trent Valentine (4-0, 23 strikeouts, 1.96 ERA) and senior Brett Carson (3-0, 20 strikeouts, 1.42 ERA) … Senior pitcher Sam Mathews boasts an OAC-best 0.00 ERA to go with 24 strikeouts through 20 innings spanning eight relief appearances this season.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Marietta by a 23-83 margin, including 9-42 on the road… ONU has won two straight games in the series … The teams last met in March 2021 when Marietta won three of four games in a home-and-home set of doubleheaders.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 213-161 record, a winning percentage of .570.