Baseball: Otterbein (15-8 Overall, 4-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (11-13 Overall, 2-4 OAC)

Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues its Ohio Athletic Conference schedule on Tuesday with a home doubleheader against Otterbein beginning at 1 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off dropping both games of a doubleheader to John Carroll on Sunday … Northern fell 8-6 in 10 innings in Game 1 and 4-1 in Game 2 … Junior Jacob Wenning had two hits, including a home run, and three RBIs in Game 1, and junior Nate Webb added a pair of doubles and an RBI … Wenning was 4-for-5 with an RBI in Game 2 … Junior Tim Knapschaefer got the pitching start for ONU in Game 2 and tallied a career-high eight strikeouts over six innings … ONU finished with 11 hits in Game 1 and 10 in Game 2 … Through 24 games, Wenning leads the team in batting average (.411), hits (37) and RBIs (20) … Wenning ranks seventh in the OAC in batting average and tied for ninth in hits … Senior Corey McMann ranks second on the team in batting average (.386) and is tied with Wenning and Webb with a team-high 18 runs scored … Freshman Ethan Spears leads the team with four home runs, and Wenning, Webb and sophomore Logan Stevens have three each … Freshman Joey Kennedy has a team-high nine stolen bases … McMann has nine doubles this season, which is tied for eighth in the OAC, and ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 39 career doubles … McMann ranks 25th in program history with 144 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 Knapschaefer ranks second with a 2.61 ERA … Knapschaefer has a team-high 34 strikeouts and ranks eighth among qualified pitchers in the OAC in ERA … Otterbein enters Tuesday's doubleheader at 15-8 overall coming off Sunday's doubleheader split with Mount Union … Otterbein won 12-8 in Game 1 and lost 10-6 in Game 2 … Through 23 games, Brayden Carter (.432), Sam Edgell (.389) and Luke Barber (.363) lead the Cardinals in batting average … Carter ranks second in the OAC in batting average, tied for third in hits (41) and doubles (11) and sixth in RBIs (29) … Edgell is tied for fourth in the OAC with five home runs … The OU pitching staff is led by Logan Weber (4-0, 5.46 ERA, 25 strikeouts), Nicky Zorne (3-1, 2.83 ERA, 27 strikeouts), Travis Engard (2-0, 2.08 ERA, 18 strikeouts) and Travis Burson (1-0, 3.98 ERA, 29 strikeouts).

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Otterbein by a 61-67 margin but is 31-30 against OU at home … ONU has won five of the past seven meetings … The teams met four times in the 2021 season with ONU 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 219-166 record, a winning percentage of .569.