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Win streak up to nine for Baseball squad after 14-3 rain-shortened victory at Defiance

Win streak up to nine for Baseball squad after 14-3 rain-shortened victory at Defiance
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May 2, 2024

DEFIANCE — The Ohio Northern baseball team ran its winning streak to nine games with a rain-shortened 14-3 non-conference victory at Defiance on Thursday.

The Basics

  • Records: Ohio Northern (23-14 overall), Defiance (6-27 overall).
  • Venue: Rutter Field - Defiance, Ohio.

Game Highlights

  • Ohio Northern scored six runs in the top of the first inning and cruised to the win.
  • Northern added two runs in the second, three in the third and three more in the fifth inning to lead 14-1.
  • Defiance scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to get within 14-3, but the game was called with two outs in the bottom of the inning due to rain.
  • Junior Sam Sells (Lewis Center/Olentangy Orange) went 4-for-4 with four RBI and freshman Evan Russ (Westfield, Ind.) was 2-for-5 with a home run and 5 RBI to lead the ONU offense.
  • Junior Joe Tootle (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) allowed only four hits and one run while striking out four in 5.0 innings to earn the win on the bump and improve to 5-0 on the season.
  • ONU out-hit DC 13-4.

Notables

  • Northern is in a third place tie with Marietta in the OAC regular season standings with 10-6 records.
  • ONU will clinch a spot in the 4-team OAC Tournament with one win in its regular season-ending double header at home with Heidelberg on Saturday.
  • Sells and Andrew Stechschulte (Findlay) and freshman Kyler Lapp (Hall, Ill.) lead the team in hitting through 36 games with averages of .374, .329 and .327, respectively.
  • Stechschulte leads the team with 48 hits.
  • Sophomore Chase Armstrong (Louisville, Ky./Trinity) leads the squad with 15 doubles, seven home runs, 44 RBI and a .613 slugging percentage. His 44 RBI is the fifth-most at ONU in single-season.
  • Ohio Northern is now 42-28-1 all-time against Defiance, including a 15-19 mark iat Defiance.
  • Ohio Northern is in its 119th season of baseball. The Polar Bears are 1464-1151 all-time, a winning percentage of .560.
  • 13th-year head coach Gene Stechschulte is now 276-203 at Ohio Northern for a winning percentage of .576.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will wrap up the OAC portion of their schedule on Saturday when they celebrate Senior Day with a 1 pm double header against Heidelberg at Wander Field.