Baseball: Wilmington (20-18 Overall, 7-9 OAC) at Ohio Northern (18-20 Overall, 6-10 OAC)

Sunday, May 8, 2022, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio

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Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern is hosting a doubleheader with Ohio Athletic Conference foe Wilmington on Sunday to close out its 2022 regular-season schedule … The Polar Bears are coming off Wednesday's 6-2 loss at Defiance … Junior Nate Webb and sophomore Logan Stevens both hit a solo home run in the game … Senior Tom Pitko got the pitching start for Northern and allowed just 1 run on 3 hits and 1 walk while striking out 5 over 6 innings … Through 38 games, freshman Ethan Spears leads the team in batting average (.396) and is tied with Webb for the team lead in home runs (8) … Spears and Webb are tied for sixth in the OAC in home runs, and Spears ranks 10th in batting average … Junior Jacob Wenning leads the team in hits (54) and is second in RBIs (31) and batting average (.358) … Webb has a team-best 33 RBIs … Senior Chayten Overholt has a team-high 32 runs scored … Senior Corey McMann ranks third on the team in batting average (.336) and second in hits (48) … Spears and freshman Joey Kennedy have 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 119 career hits, which is tied for 46th all-time … On the mound, junior Tim Knapschaefer has a team-best 61 strikeouts to go with a 3.19 ERA … Knapschaefer ranks fourth in the OAC in ERA and seventh in strikeouts … Wilmington is coming off Thursday's 6-3 home win over Miami-Hamilton … Jared Lammert had 3 hits, including a double, and an RBI to go with 2 hits and 2 RBIs from Zach Christensen to lead the Quakers' offense in the win … Kaleb Stines pitched all 7 innings and tallied 6 strikeouts … Caleb Scott (.405) and Lammert (.403) lead the Quakers in batting average, which ranks sixth and seventh, respectively, in the OAC … Scott has a team-high 14 doubles and 49 RBIs … Scott ranks third in the OAC in RBIs … Aaron Burns leads the team in home runs with 6 … Tyler Shaneyfelt has an OAC-high 28 stolen bases … On the mound, Shaneyfelt is 2-1 with 3.38 ERA, and Aaron Boster is 4-4 with a 5.54 ERA and ranks third in the OAC with 69 strikeouts.

Ohio Northern Batting Leaders

Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wilmington by a 33-25 margin, including a 21-10 mark at home … The teams met four times in 2021, and ONU went 3-1 in those matchups.

Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 11th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 226-173 record, a winning percentage of .566.