Baseball: Oberlin (7-24 Overall) at Ohio Northern (17-19 Overall)

Sunday, May 1, 2022, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern is hosting a non-conference game against Oberlin on Sunday … Northern won 13-3 at Oberlin earlier this season on April 4 … The Polar Bears have won 4 of their last 5 games and are coming off Saturday's doubleheader split at Heidelberg, falling 6-3 in Game 1 and winning 4-2 in Game 2 … Senior Chayten Overholt was a combined 6-for-8 at the plate with a double and a triple in the games … Senior Corey McMann hit a home run in Game 1, and junior Nate Webb added a triple in Game 2 … Junior Tim Knapschaefer got the win on the mound in Game 2, improving to 4-4 on the season after striking out a career-high 13 batters and allowing 1 run on 3 hits and 3 walks over 7 innings … Freshman Kyle Lawrence earned a save after pitching two innings of relief … Through 36 games, freshman Ethan Spears leads the team in batting average (.410) and home runs (8) … Spears is tied for fifth in the OAC in home runs and ranks sixth in batting average … Junior Jacob Wenning leads the team in hits (52) and RBIs (29) and is second in batting average (.361) … Overholt has a team-high 32 runs scored … McMann ranks third on the team in batting average (.353) and second in hits (48) … Freshman Joey Kennedy has a team-high 10 stolen bases … McMann has 14 doubles this season and ranks third all-time at ONU with 44 career doubles … McMann is just 2 doubles shy of tying the program record for doubles in a career, which is shared by Luke Klinehoffer and Scott Bush … McMann ranks 13th in program history with 160 career hits, and Overholt has 117 career hits, which is tied for 48th all-time … Knapschaefer has a team-best 61 strikeouts to go with a 3.19 ERA … Knapschaefer ranks fourth in the OAC in ERA and fifth in strikeouts … Oberlin enters Sunday's game coming off dropping both games of a doubleheader at Kenyon on Saturday, falling 3-2 and 6-5 … Jake Blozy (.379), Max Anastasio (.339) and Alex Vaughan (.320) are batting above .300 on the season for the Yeomen … Anastasio has a team-high 40 hits and 5 home runs … Max Cairo leads the team in RBIs with 26 … Blozy has a team-high 11 stolen bases … On the mound, Alexander Norris has a team-best 3.74 ERA, and Vince Dolcemaschio has a team-leading 40 strikeouts to go with a 3.79 ERA.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Oberlin by a 38-3 margin, including a 21-0 mark at home… The teams last met earlier this season on April 4 with ONU getting a 13-3 road win for its sixth straight victory in the series.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 225-172 record, a winning percentage of .567.