Baseball: John Carroll (18-7 Overall, 7-1 OAC) and #13 Denison (19-6 Overall) at Ohio Northern (17-9 Overall, 5-3 OAC)

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

Sunday, April 16, 2023, 2 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Weekend Preview: Ohio Northern closes out the week hosting an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader against John Carroll on Saturday and hosting a single game against Denison on Sunday … The Polar Bears are currently tied with Marietta for third place in the conference standings … Northern is coming off Tuesday's doubleheader sweep of Wilmington with scores of 13-2 and 8-4 and has won five straight games … Junior Noah Truax and sophomore Blake Altaffer picked up wins on the mound … Junior Logan Stevens hit a pair of home runs on the day, and sophomore Hunter Kauser finished 5-for-8 at the plate with four RBIs … Through 26 games this season, sophomore Joey Kennedy leads ONU with a .313 batting average followed by fifth-year senior Corey McMann (.306) and Stevens (.300) … Kennedy is tied for sixth in the OAC with 11 steals … McMann and Stevens have a team-high 30 hits … Stevens has a team-best 22 RBIs and is tied for third in the OAC in home runs (6) … Altaffer (1.69) and senior Jack Hutchins (2.10) rank third and fifth, respectively, in the OAC in ERA among qualified pitchers … Senior Tim Knapschaefer is tied for fifth in the OAC in strikeouts (37) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan has an OAC-best seven saves … Knapschaefer has 134 career strikeouts, which ranks 18th in program history … McMann ranks third all-time at ONU with 194 career hits and is three shy of tying the all-time record … McMann is the program's all-time leader in career doubles (47)… Senior Jacob Wenning is tied for 39th all-time at ONU with 129 career hits … John Carroll leads the OAC standings and is coming off splitting a doubleheader with Heidelberg on Tuesday, winning 17-15 before falling 7-3 … Sean Connolly (.389) and Connor Mayle (.348) lead the Blue Streaks in batting average … Connolly ranks eighth in the OAC in batting average, is tied for third in doubles (12) and has a team-best 35 hits … Mayle is tied for the OAC lead with eight home runs … Justin Hanley is tied for seventh in the OAC in RBIs (28) … On the mound, Matthew Aukerman is 6-0 with a 1.63 ERA and 54 strikeouts, and Jon Ambro is 4-1 with a 5.82 ERA and 26 strikeouts … Aukerman ranks second in the OAC in strikeouts … Denison is ranked No. 13 in this week's D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll and is playing a doubleheader against Wooster on Saturday prior to facing ONU on Sunday … Eric Colaco (.430) and Noah Leib (.389) lead the Big Red in batting average … Colaco leads the team in runs (42), hits (46), home runs (7), RBIs (38) and steals (20) … Leib has a team-best 12 doubles … On the mound, Charlie Fleming is 5-1 with a 2.48 ERA and 42 strikeouts, and Nick Falter is 3-0 with a 2.52 ERA and 31 strikeouts.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: John Carroll leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by a 38-28-1 margin, including a 15-16-1 mark in Ada … JCU has won five straight meetings … JCU swept a home doubleheader against ONU last season, winning 4-1 and 8-6 … Denison leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by a 10-9 margin, including a 2-6 mark in Ada … DU has won five straight meetings … The teams last met in 2019 when DU got a 12-4 home win.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 244-183 record, a winning percentage of .571.