Baseball: Ohio Northern (10-5 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at #3 Baldwin Wallace (13-3 Overall, 0-0 OAC)

Sunday, March 26, 2023, 1 p.m. – Fisher Field, Berea, Ohio

Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern opens Ohio Athletic Conference play on Sunday with a doubleheader at Baldwin Wallace after returning from its 12-game spring break trip in Florida's RussMatt Invitational … The Polar Bears finished 8-4 in those games … Thursday's game against No. 14 Denison was postponed to April 16 due to inclement weather, and the doubleheader at Baldwin Wallace was delayed by one day … Northern is coming off Sunday's 6-0 win over Ramapo (N.J.) in Florida … Fifth-year senior Corey McMann and seniors Vinny Sclafani and Nate Webb paced the offense with two hits each … Senior Jacob Wenning and freshman Robbie Reed had two RBIs each … Senior Jack Hutchins improved to 3-0 on the mound, pitching 5.2 shutout innings while giving up just two hits and four walks to go with five strikeouts … Junior Kaidan Domer pitched the final two innings without allowing a hit to earn his first save of the season … Through 15 games this season, sophomore Joey Kennedy leads ONU with a .421 average followed by junior Logan Stevens (.304) and sophomore Andrew Stechschulte (.303) … Stevens has a team-best 17 hits, and Kennedy and McMann are tied for second with 16 … Kennedy has a team-high 12 runs and is tied for fifth in the OAC with eight steals … Stevens leads the team with 11 RBIs, and Wenning is second with 10 … Hutchins has a team-best 0.47 ERA in 19 innings pitched … Hutchins leads the OAC in ERA and is tied for second in wins … Junior Noah Truax ranks fourth in the OAC in ERA (1.72) among qualified pitchers … Senior Tim Knapschaefer is tied for eighth in the OAC in strikeouts (20) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan leads the OAC with four saves and has a 1.86 ERA with nine strikeouts through 9.2 innings pitched on the season … Knapschaefer has 117 career strikeouts, which ranks 22nd in program history … McMann ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 180 career hits and is a career .328 hitter … McMann ranks third all-time at ONU with 44 career doubles … Wenning ranks 52nd all-time at ONU with 114 career hits and is a career .329 hitter … Baldwin Wallace is ranked No. 3 nationally in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA poll … The Yellow Jackets are coming off Wednesday's 7-4 loss to Allegheny (Pa.) …  Through 16 games, BWU has four players batting better than .400 in seniors Alexis Castillo (.464), JT Mazula (.417) and Carl Pennington (.417) and sophomore Sean Kolenich (.414) … Castillo ranks second in the OAC in batting average, and Mazula is 10th … Castillo leads the OAC in hits with 32 … Junior Nick Clark is tied for fourth in the OAC in doubles (7) and is tied for fifth in RBIs (18) … Seniors Andrew Parker and Luke Vonderhaar have five home runs each, which is tied for second in the OAC … Senior Vincent Capolupo is tied for fifth in the OAC with eight steals … On the mound, the Yellow Jackets are led by senior Dawson Gabe (3-0, 4.33 ERA, 31 strikeouts) and freshman Tyler Walker (2-0, 2.45 ERA, 19 strikeouts) … Gabe ranks third in the OAC in strikeouts.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Baldwin Wallace leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by a 55-51 margin, including a 30-28 mark in Berea… The Yellow Jackets won both meetings last season, 11-2 and 12-2 in Berea.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 237-179 record, a winning percentage of .570.