Baseball: Ohio Northern (20-10 Overall, 8-4 OAC) at Capital (6-22 Overall, 0-12 OAC)
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Northern | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 2 |
| Capital | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Northern | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 2 |
| Capital | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
Team Stats
Ohio Northern
Capital
Capital
Sunday, April 23, 2023, 1 p.m. – Clowson Field, Columbus, Ohio
Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play with a doubleheader at Capital on Sunday … The games were rescheduled from Saturday due to inclement weather ... The Polar Bears are currently tied with John Carroll for third place in the conference standings behind Baldwin Wallace and Marietta … Northern swept a doubleheader with John Carroll earlier this season … ONU is coming off Wednesday's doubleheader split at Otterbein, falling 10-1 in Game 1 before winning 8-4 in Game 2 … Sophomore Blake Altaffer earned the win on the mound in Game 2, improving to 5-0 on the season … ONU tallied 13 hits in the game, getting two each from four different players … Through 30 games, freshman Chase Armstrong leads ONU with a .371 batting average followed by sophomore Joey Kennedy (.316) and fifth-year senior Corey McMann (.312) … Kennedy has a team-high 20 runs and is tied for fifth in the OAC with 13 steals … Junior Logan Stevens has a team-high 36 hits and 24 RBIs and is tied for fourth in the OAC with six home runs … McMann, Armstrong and senior Nate Webb have five homers each … Altaffer (1.62) and senior Jack Hutchins (2.52) rank second and seventh, respectively, in the OAC in ERA among qualified pitchers, and Altaffer is tied for fifth in wins … Senior Tim Knapschaefer ranks ninth in the OAC in strikeouts (41) … Sophomore Vaughn Duncan has an OAC-best seven saves … McMann is ONU's all-time career leader in hits (198) and doubles (47) … Wenning ranks 34th all-time at ONU with 133 career hits … Knapschaefer has 138 career strikeouts, which ranks 16th in program history … Capital is winless in OAC play and is coming off being swept 12-6, 12-2 by Wilmington in a doubleheader on Wednesday … Hunter Wilson (.327) and EJ Santana (.313) lead the Comets in batting average … Wilson has a team-high 32 hits and 10 steals … Santana has a team-best 20 RBIs … Christopher Rockwell leads the team with six home runs … On the mound, Curtis Clark is 1-4 with a 5.13 ERA and 22 strikeouts, and Tyler Sickles is 0-2 with a 5.21 ERA and 19 strikeouts.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Armstrong | .371 | 1. | Stevens | 36 | 1. | Kennedy | 20 | 1. | Stevens | 24 | |||
| 2. | Kennedy | .316 | 2. | McMann | 34 | 2. | Armstrong | 19 | 2. | Reed | 19 | |||
| 3. | McMann | .312 | 3. | Wenning | 31 | Wenning | 19 | 3. | Webb | 18 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders
| Wins | ERA | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Altaffer | 5 | 1. | Altaffer | 1.62 | 1. | Knapschaefer | 41 | ||
| 2. | Hutchins | 4 | 2. | Hutchins | 2.52 | 2. | Hutchins | 33 | ||
| 3. | Peterson | 3 | 3. | Duncan | 2.61 | 3. | Altaffer | 27 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Capital by a 72-33-1 margin, including a 35-15-1 mark in Columbus … Last season, the teams split a doubleheader in Ada, with CU winning 7-2 in Game 1 and ONU winning 12-5 in Game 2.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his 12th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern baseball team … He has a 247-184 record, a winning percentage of .573.