Baseball: Ohio Northern (5-5 Overall) at Rose Hulman (4-3 Overall)
Friday-Saturday, March 13-14, 2020 - Art Nehf Field, Terre Haute, Ind.
Friday-Saturday's Preview: The Ohio Northern baseball team travels to Terre Haute, Ind. for a three-game series against Rose-Hulman at Art Nehf Field … The Friday game will begin at 6 p.m., while Saturday's doubleheader will commence at 12 p.m. … The Polar Bears enter with a 5-5 overall record after going 5-2 on their Florida trip … Northern is averaging 6.1 runs per game and hitting .314 as a team, which includes a .438 slugging percentage … Junior Matthew Burkett leads the offensive charge, batting a team-high .412 with two doubles and five RBIs … Fellow junior Krue Thwaits is hitting .382 with a pair of triples, one double and a team-best nine RBIs … Sophomore Corey McMann boasts a .378 batting average, which includes a team-high two home runs, three doubles and seven RBIs, while junior Andy Mills has batted .378 with one triple, two doubles and five RBIs … The Polar Bears have allowed 4.6 runs per contest, owning a team ERA of 3.39 … Senior Jack Schaller paces the pitching staff … He's made three starts, going 1-1, throwing a total of 19.1 innings with a 1.40 ERA and 18 strikeouts … Fellow senior Nate Bye also has three starts, going 1-1, laying claim to a 2.40 ERA in 15 innings tossed with 15 punch outs … Freshman Tim Knapschaefer leads the bullpen bunch, as he's twirled six innings of scoreless baseball with five Ks … Rose-Hulman owns a 4-3 overall record, having lost its last two games … The Fightin' Engineers knock home 6.6 runs per contest, hitting a collective .319 with a .455 slugging percentage … Josh Mesenbrink leads the way, registering a batting average of .417 with one double and three RBIs … The Fightin' Engineers surrender 5.9 runs per game … Luke Buehler spearheads the pitching staff … He's made two starts, going 2-0, holding a 1.64 ERA in 11 innings thrown with seven strikeouts.
2020 Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
| Batting Ave. | Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | Burkett | .412 | 1. | Burkett | 14 | 1. | McMann | 11 | 1. | Thwaits | 9 | |||
| 2. | Thwaits | .382 | 1. | McMann | 14 | 2. | Mills | 7 | 2. | McMann | 7 | |||
| 3. | McMann | .378 | 1. | Mills | 14 | 2. | Thwaits | 7 | 3. | Rocco | 6 | |||
| 3. | Wenning | 6 |
2020 Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
| Wins | ERA (Min. 10 Inn.) | Strikeouts | Saves | |||||||||||
| 1. | Schaller | 1 | 1. | Schaller | 1.40 | 1. | Schaller | 18 | 1. | Johnson | 1 | |||
| 1. | Bye | 1 | 2. | Bye | 2.40 | 2. | Bye | 15 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 1 | |||
| 1. | Beaton | 1 | 3. | Dodson | 7 | |||||||||
| 1. | Fisher | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1. | Mohr | 1 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern owns a 6-3 all-time record versus Rose-Hulman … The Polar Bears and Fightin' Engineers last met in 2016 where they split a two-game set.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his ninth season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He owns a 187-138 record, a .575 winning percentage.