Baseball: Ohio Northern (10-10 Overall) at Oberlin (5-10 Overall)
Monday, April 4, 2022, 4 p.m. – Dill Field, Oberlin, Ohio
Monday's Preview: The Ohio Northern baseball team is playing its fourth game in three days on Monday as it travels to take on Oberlin … The Polar Bears are coming off Sunday's 8-3 home win over Allegheny (Pa.) … Freshman Kyle Lawrence earned the win on the mound after giving up just one earned run on seven hits and two walks while striking out four over six innings … Freshman Joe Tootle earned his first career save after allowing just one hit and two walks while striking out six as he shut out the Gators over the final three innings … Senior Corey McMann, juniors Nate Webb and Nick Rothmann and freshmen Joey Kennedy, Ethan Spears and Sam Sells each tallied one RBI in the game … McMann leads the team in batting average (.400), hits (28) and runs (16) … Junior Jacob Wenning ranks second on the team in batting average (.366) and hits (26) and is tied with Webb for second on the team in runs scored (15) … Webb and sophomore Logan Stevens lead ONU in RBIs with 17 … McMann has eight doubles this season and ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 38 career doubles … McMann is tied for 29th in program history with 140 career hits … Senior Chayten Overholt needs seven hits to join the 100-Hit Club … Freshman Joey Kennedy leads ONU in steals (9) … Sophomore Noah Truax leads the Polar Bears' pitching staff in ERA (1.86), and junior Tim Knapschaefer ranks second with a 2.16 ERA … Knapschaefer has a team-high 26 strikeouts … North Coast Athletic Conference member Oberlin enters Monday's game at 5-10 overall coming off Saturday's doubleheader split with Ohio Wesleyan, winning 11-3 in Game 1 and losing 17-10 in Game 2 … Max Anastasio (.370), Alex Vaughan (.341) and Jake Freed (.339) lead the Yeomen in batting average … Anastasio has a team-high 20 hits, while Max Cairo has a team-leading 15 RBIs … Vince Dolcemaschio (1-2, 3.09 ERA, 22 strikeouts) and Justin Fuls (1-1, 8.40 ERA, 20 strikeouts) lead the Oberlin pitching staff.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
| Batting Ave. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | McMann | .400 | 1. | McMann | 28 | 1. | McMann | 16 | 1. | Stevens | 17 | |||
| 2. | Wenning | .366 | 2. | Wenning | 26 | 2. | Webb | 15 | Webb | 17 | ||||
| 3. | Kennedy | .310 | 3. | Webb | 20 | Wenning | 15 | 3. | Overholt | 14 | ||||
| Overholt | 20 | Wenning | 14 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
| Wins | ERA (Min. 6 Inn.) | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Truax | 2 | 1. | Truax | 1.86 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 26 | ||
| Hutchins | 2 | 2. | Knapschaefer | 2.16 | 2. | Lawrence | 24 | |||
| Duncan | 2 | 3. | Pitko | 5.16 | 3. | Truax | 20 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Oberlin by a 37-3 margin, including 16-3 on the road … ONU has won each of the last four meetings.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 218-163 record, a winning percentage of .572.