Baseball: Ohio Northern (11-11 Overall, 2-2 OAC) at John Carroll (9-10 Overall, 3-1 OAC)

Sunday, April 10, 2022, 3 p.m. – Talty Field, Cleveland, Ohio

Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues its Ohio Athletic Conference schedule on Sunday with a doubleheader against John Carroll at Talty Field in Cleveland … The games were moved from Saturday at John Carroll's Schweickert Field due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions … The Polar Bears are coming off Thursday's 24-9 loss at Bluffton … Northern tallied 18 hits in the game and was led by junior Jacob Wenning, who finished with four hits and two RBIs … Sophomore Logan Stevens hit a solo home run, and junior Vinny Sclafani and freshmen Sam Sells and Ethan Spears notched two hits each … Through 22 games, senior Corey McMann leads the team in batting average (.395) and runs scored (17) and ranks second in hits (30) … Wenning ranks second on the team in batting average (.388) and has a team-high 31 hits … Freshman Joey Kennedy ranks third on the team in batting average (.318) and has a team-high nine stolen bases … Stevens and junior Nate Webb lead ONU in RBIs with 18 … McMann has nine doubles this season, which is tied for fifth in the OAC, and ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 39 career doubles … McMann is tied for 25th in program history with 142 career hits … Senior Chayten Overholt needs five hits to join the 100-Hit Club … 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 and ranks fifth among qualified pitchers in the OAC in ERA … John Carroll enters Sunday's doubleheader at 9-10 overall and has won five of its last six games coming off a doubleheader sweep of Wilmington last Saturday … JCU won 14-13 in Game 1 and 12-10 in Game 2 … Sophomore Joe Olsavsky led the way in Game 2 with five hits, including three home runs and a double, and six RBIs … The Blue Streaks hit six homers in the game overall … Olsavsky finished the two-game set with seven hits and nine RBIs … Senior Landen Glaser added five hits, including a homer and two doubles, and four RBIs, and senior Henry Haracz tallied five hits, including a homer and a double, and four RBIs … Through 19 games, Glaser (.364), Olsavsky (.361) and Haracz (.313) lead JCU in batting average … Olsavsky has a team-high 26 hits, seven doubles and 20 RBIs and is tied with Glaser for the team lead in home runs with four … Olsavsky ranks second in the OAC in steals (15) … On the mound, senior Mitchell Midea leads the Blue Streaks with 45 strikeouts, which ranks third in the OAC, and senior Garrett Siegel has a team-best 3.00 ERA over seven relief appearances.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with John Carroll by a 28-36-1 margin, including 11-21 on the road … ONU has won eight of the past 10 meetings … JCU has won three straight games in the series, but ONU has won six of the past 10 games … The teams met four times in the 2021 season with JCU going 3-1 in those games.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 219-164 record, a winning percentage of .572.