Baseball: Muskingum (11-13 Overall, 1-7 OAC) at Ohio Northern (11-15 Overall, 2-6 OAC)
Game 2
Game 2
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
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Muskingum | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 6 |
Ohio Northern | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 2 |
Game 1
Game 1
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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Muskingum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
Ohio Northern | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | X | 11 | 19 | 4 |
Team Stats
Game 2
Muskingum
Game 1
Muskingum
Friday, April 15, 2022, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio
Friday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues its Ohio Athletic Conference schedule on Friday with a home doubleheader against Muskingum beginning at 1 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off dropping both games of a doubleheader to Otterbein on Tuesday … Northern fell 6-3 in Game 1 and 10-4 in Game 2 and tallied a combined 19 hits in the two-game set … ONU got a double from senior Chayten Overholt and a triple from sophomore Dakota Durick in Game 1 and a double from senior Corey McMann and home runs from junior Jacob Wenning and freshman Ethan Spears in Game 2 … Through 26 games, Wenning leads the team in batting average (.392), hits (38), runs (20) and RBIs (22) … McMann ranks second on the team in batting average (.385) and hits (35) … Spears leads the team with five home runs, and Wenning is second with four … Freshman Joey Kennedy has a team-high nine stolen bases … McMann has 10 doubles this season, which is tied for sixth in the OAC, and is tied for third all-time at ONU with 40 career doubles … McMann is tied for 22nd in program history with 147 career hits … Overholt needs two 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 2.61 ERA … Knapschaefer has a team-high 34 strikeouts and ranks ninth among qualified pitchers in the OAC in ERA … Muskingum enters Friday's doubleheader at 11-13 overall and riding a four-game losing streak coming off Tuesday's doubleheader sweep at the hands of No. 1 Marietta, falling 19-8 and 10-8 … The Fighting Muskies tallied a combined 22 hits in the two-game set … MU got three hits from Devin Ryan and four RBIs from Gavin Hawk in Game 1 and was led by Dominic Gorence (3 hits, 5 RBIs) and Quinten Collins (3 hits, 2 RBIs) in Game 2 … Ryan leads MU in batting average (.396), hits (40), doubles (13), home runs (5) and RBIs (22) … Ryan ranks second in the OAC in doubles and is tied for fifth in homers and tied for 10th in hits … Jake Norris leads the MU pitching staff with a 1.89 ERA and 35 strikeouts, ranking third and 10th, respectively, in the OAC in those categories.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
Batting Ave. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
1. | Wenning | .392 | 1. | Wenning | 38 | 1. | Wenning | 20 | 1. | Wenning | 22 | |||
2. | McMann | .385 | 2. | McMann | 35 | 2. | Webb | 19 | 2. | Webb | 20 | |||
3. | Spears | .318 | 3. | Webb | 27 | 3. | McMann | 18 | 3. | Stevens | 19 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
Wins | ERA (Min. 6 Inn.) | Strikeouts | ||||||||
1. | Truax | 2 | 1. | Truax | 1.86 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 34 | ||
Hutchins | 2 | 2. | Knapschaefer | 2.61 | 2. | Lawrence | 26 | |||
Duncan | 2 | 3. | Ballas | 4.91 | 3. | Truax | 20 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Muskingum by a 45-33 margin, including a 22-16 mark at home … ONU has won five straight meetings and eight of the past nine … The teams met four times in the 2021 season with ONU going 4-0 in those games by a combined margin of 35-13.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 219-168 record, a winning percentage of .566.