Baseball: Ohio Northern (26-11 Overall, 12-4 OAC) at Heidelberg (17-21 Overall, 5-11 OAC)
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 1 p.m. – Peaceful Valley, Tiffin, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern closes its 2023 regular-season schedule with an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader at Heidelberg on Saturday … The Polar Bears have secured the No. 3 seed in next week's four-team OAC Tournament … ONU is coming off Thursday's 11-4 win at Defiance … Junior Logan Stevens had a two-hit day and joined ONU's 100-Hit Club … Sophomore Blake Altaffer pitched five shutout innings with five strikeouts and improved to 8-0 on the season … Through 37 games, freshman Chase Armstrong leads ONU with a .383 batting average, followed by Stevens (.315) and fifth-year senior Corey McMann (.315) … Armstrong leads the team with 32 runs and is tied for sixth in the OAC in home runs (8) … Stevens has a team-high 47 hits and 34 RBIs … Sophomore Joey Kennedy is tied for eighth in the OAC with 15 steals …Altaffer leads the OAC with a 1.33 ERA, and senior Jack Hutchins (2.41) is sixth … Altaffer ranks second in the OAC in wins … Senior Tim Knapschaefer ranks third in the OAC in strikeouts (63) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan has an OAC-best seven saves … McMann is ONU's all-time career leader in hits (204) and doubles (49), and he ranks fourth in RBIs (119) and 10th in home runs (18) … Senior Jacob Wenning ranks 26th all-time at ONU with 143 career hits … Senior Nate Webb has 108 career hits and is tied for eighth all-time in home runs (19) … Stevens has 100 career hits … Knapschaefer has 160 career strikeouts, which ranks 12th in program history … Heidelberg is coming off Sunday's 17-5 win over DePauw (Ind.) … Andrew Pokley (.387) and Camden Farley (.355) lead the Student Princes in batting average … Aidan Corrigan has a team-high 52 hits … Adam McVicker has a team-best four triples, nine home runs and 33 RBIs … Reece McNeely leads the team with 16 steals … On the mound, Jackson Powers is 5-4 with a 4.75 ERA and 35 strikeouts, and Corbin Caplan is 3-3 with a 5.44 ERA and 35 strikeouts.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Armstrong | .383 | 1. | Stevens | 47 | 1. | Armstrong | 32 | 1. | Stevens | 34 | |||
| 2. | Stevens | .315 | 2. | Wenning | 41 | 2. | Kennedy | 27 | 2. | Webb | 28 | |||
| McMann | .315 | 3. | McMann | 40 | 3. | Stevens | 26 | 3. | Reed | 26 | ||||
| Wenning | 26 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
| Wins | ERA | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Altaffer | 8 | 1. | Altaffer | 1.33 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 63 | ||
| 2. | Hutchins | 6 | 2. | Duncan | 2.28 | 2. | Hutchins | 47 | ||
| 3. | Knapschaefer | 3 | 3. | Hutchins | 2.41 | 3. | Altaffer | 35 | ||
| Peterson | 3 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 90-65 margin, including a 37-38 mark in Tiffin … The teams split a doubleheader in Tiffin in 2022 with HU winning 6-3 and ONU winning 4-2 … ONU has won five of the past six meetings.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 253-185 record, a winning percentage of .578.