Baseball: #19 Marietta (14-6 Overall, 1-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (12-7 Overall, 1-1 OAC)
Sunday, April 2, 2023, 1 p.m. – Wander Field, Ada, Ohio
Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Sunday hosting a doubleheader against Marietta … The games were postponed from Saturday due to inclement weather … The Polar Bears are coming off Thursday's 9-6 loss to Bluffton … Junior Logan Stevens and senior Nate Webb paced the ONU offense in the game, finishing with two hits, including a home run, and two RBIs each … Fifth-year senior Corey McMann added two RBIs … Through 19 games this season, sophomore Joey Kennedy leads ONU with a .400 batting average followed by Webb (.323) and Stevens (.306) … Kennedy is tied for fifth in the OAC in batting average and ranks third in stolen bases (11) while leading the team with 15 runs … Stevens has a team-best 22 hits, followed by McMann (21), Kennedy (20) and Webb (20) … Stevens and Webb have a team-best four home runs each, which is tied for seventh in the OAC … Stevens has a team-high 16 RBIs … Sophomore Blake Altaffer (1.40) and senior Jack Hutchins (1.48) rank second and third, respectively, in the OAC among qualified pitchers in ERA … Senior Tim Knapschaefer is tied for eighth in the OAC in strikeouts (25) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan has an OAC-best six saves … Knapschaefer has 122 career strikeouts, which is tied for 20th in program history … McMann ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 185 career hits and is a career .327 hitter … McMann ranks third all-time at ONU with 45 career doubles, which is one shy of the program record of 46 shared by Luke Klinehoffer and Scott Bush … Senior Jacob Wenning is tied for 47th all-time at ONU with 119 career hits and is a career .325 hitter … Marietta is ranked No. 19 nationally D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll … The Pioneers are coming off Wednesday's 18-5 win at Wittenberg … Ty Davis (.393) and Nick Bonnizzio (.392) rank seventh and eighth, respectively, in the OAC in batting average … Brett Carson is tied for the OAC lead in home runs (6) and is tied for second in RBIs (25) … Kail Hill (4-0, 2.20 ERA, 33 strikeouts) and Trent Valentine (2-0, 3.54 ERA, 23 strikeouts) lead the MC pitching staff.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Kennedy | .400 | 1. | Stevens | 22 | 1. | Kennedy | 15 | 1. | Stevens | 16 | |||
| 2. | Webb | .323 | 2. | McMann | 21 | 2. | Reed | 13 | 2. | Webb | 14 | |||
| 3. | McMann | .306 | 3. | Kennedy | 20 | Webb | 12 | 3. | Wenning | 11 | ||||
| Webb | 20 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
| Wins | ERA (Min. 10 Inn.) | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Hutchins | 3 | 1. | Altaffer | 1.40 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 25 | ||
| 2. | Altaffer | 2 | 2. | Duncan | 1.42 | 2. | Hutchins | 22 | ||
| Peterson | 2 | 3. | Hutchins | 1.48 | 3. | Altaffer | 19 | |||
| Peterson | 19 |
All-Time Series: Marietta leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by an 84-24 margin, including a 33-14 mark in Ada … Last season, the teams split a doubleheader in Marietta, as ONU won 3-2 and MC won 8-0.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 239-181 record, a winning percentage of .569.