Baseball: Alma (Mich.) (3-13 Overall) at Ohio Northern (4-8 Overall)

Thursday, March 24, 2022, 4 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Thursday's Preview: The Ohio Northern baseball team is hosting Alma (Mich.) at Wander Field on Thursday at 4 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off splitting a home doubleheader against Albion (Mich.) on Monday … Northern won 4-3 in seven innings in Game 1 of the doubleheader before falling 7-5 in nine innings in Game 2 … Senior Chayten Overholt tallied three hits, including two doubles, and had a team-high five RBIs for ONU in the two-game set … Junior Jacob Wenning notched a team-leading four hits, two of which were doubles, to go with one RBI in the doubleheader, and junior Nate Webb added three hits, including a pair of doubles, and an RBI … Freshman Sam Sells hit his first career triple in Game 2 of the doubleheader … Wenning leads the team in batting average (.341) on the season and is tied with senior Corey McMann for the team lead in hits (14) … McMann has a team-high five doubles and nine runs scored on the season … Overholt and Webb have a team-high nine RBIs … Freshman Joey Kennedy leads ONU in steals (8) … Sophomore Noah Truax leads the Polar Bears' pitching staff in wins (2), ERA (2.08) and strikeouts (18) … Truax ranks 10th in the Ohio Athletic Conference in ERA and is tied for 13th in strikeouts … McMann ranks sixth all-time at ONU with 35 career doubles and ranks 42nd in program history with 126 career hits … Overholt needs 18 hits to join the 100-Hit Club … Alma (Mich.) enters Thursday's game at 3-13 overall and riding a seven-game losing streak after being swept by Wittenberg by scores of 3-2 and 7-6 in a doubleheader on Sunday … The Scots are batting .238 as a team … Junior Avery Carnicom leads the team in batting average (.393), hits (24), doubles (8) and RBIs (18) … Senior Joshua Robinson is batting .333 and has a team-high six home runs … On the mound, freshman Tyler Johnson has a team-best 17 strikeouts to go with a 1-2 record and 4.38 ERA in five starts.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Alma (Mich.) by a 4-8 margin, including 0-1 in Ada and 4-6 at neutral sites … ONU has won two straight games in the series … The teams last met in 2011 with ONU getting a 2-0 win in the Ripken Experience DIII Week in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 212-161 record, a winning percentage of .568.