Baseball: Wittenberg (24-6 Overall) at Ohio Northern (22-10 Overall)

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 4 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Preview: Ohio Northern opens a four-game homestand on Tuesday with a non-conference game against Wittenberg … The Polar Bears are currently tied with Marietta for second place in the conference standings behind Baldwin Wallace … Marietta owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over ONU courtesy of a doubleheader sweep on April 2… ONU is coming off Sunday's doubleheader sweep at Capital, winning 12-4 and 19-6 … Senior Tim Knapschaefer recorded 11 strikeouts over five innings in Game 1, and freshman Chase Armstrong hit two home runs to highlight Game 2 … ONU tallied a combined 13 extra-base hits on the day, including 11 doubles … Through 32 games, Armstrong leads ONU with a .377 batting average, followed by fifth-year senior Corey McMann (.310) and sophomore Joey Kennedy (.301) … Armstrong has three multi-homer games this season and leads the team with nine doubles, seven homers and 24 runs … Armstrong is tied for fourth in the OAC in home runs … Kennedy is tied for sixth in the OAC with 13 steals … Junior Logan Stevens has a team-high 38 hits and 27 RBIs … Sophomore Blake Altaffer leads the OAC with a 1.62 ERA, and senior Jack Hutchins (2.58) is tied for fourth … Altaffer and Hutchins have five wins each, which is tied for sixth in the OAC … Knapschaefer ranks fourth in the OAC in strikeouts (52) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan has an OAC-best seven saves … McMann is ONU's all-time career leader in hits (200) and doubles (48), and he is tied for fourth in RBIs (115) and tied with senior Nate Webb for ninth in home runs (18) … Senior Jacob Wenning is tied for 32nd all-time at ONU with 136 career hits … Webb has 103 career hits ... Knapschaefer has 149 career strikeouts, which ranks 14th in program history … Wittenberg is riding a 13-game win streak and is 10-0 in NCAC play … The Tigers are coming off Saturday's 13-1, 14-1 doubleheader sweep of Ohio Wesleyan … WU is batting .373 as a team and is led by Luke Thomas (.417), Ian Ash (.415) and Matt Moore (.414) … Conor O'Malley has a team-high 43 RBIs and five home runs, shares the team lead in hits (46) with Moore and Chase Whisner and shares the team lead in doubles (13) with Whisner … Whisner has a team-best 39 runs … On the mound, Michael Osmond is 5-0 with a 2.18 ERA and 53 strikeouts, and Nick Cunningham is 5-2 with a 2.34 ERA and 25 strikeouts.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wittenberg by a 37-27 margin, including an 18-15 mark in Ada … The teams last played in 2019 when ONU came away with a 2-1 road win … ONU has won four straight meetings.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 249-184 record, a winning percentage of .575.