Softball: Baldwin Wallace (10-8 Overall, 2-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (9-9 Overall, 0-2 OAC)

Softball: Baldwin Wallace (10-8 Overall, 2-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (9-9 Overall, 0-2 OAC)
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April 3, 2023

Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 3 p.m. – ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Tuesday hosting a doubleheader against Baldwin Wallace … The Polar Bears are coming off Sunday's doubleheader at Marietta, falling 4-0 and 10-4 … Through 18 games this season, sophomore Callie Rosser leads the Polar Bears with a .367 batting average, followed by senior Annika Murray (.308) and fifth-year senior Abby Elliott (.298) … Rosser has a team-best 22 hits, 14 runs and 10 RBIs … Rosser is tied for sixth in the OAC in hits … Elliott ranks second on the team with 14 hits and 12 runs … In the pitching circle, sophomore Ashley Lenser is 5-4 with a 2.54 ERA and 29 strikeouts, and senior Allie Bican is 4-5 with a 3.81 ERA and 51 strikeouts … Lenser is tied for sixth in the OAC in wins, and Bican is tied for ninth … Bican is tied for fourth in the OAC in strikeouts … Lenser is 17-8 with a 1.84 ERA and 103 strikeouts in her ONU career, which is tied for 17th in program history … Bican has a career ERA of 3.18 and ranks seventh all-time at ONU in career strikeouts with 210 … Elliott has 132 career hits, which is ranks 19th all-time at ONU … Senior Sydney Motylinski has 86 career hits, including 12 home runs, which is two shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time at ONU in that category … Baldwin Wallace is coming off Sunday's doubleheader sweep of Wilmington by scores of 3-0 and 12-2 … Through 18 games, Emily Mau (.386) and Bridie Bricker (.342) lead the Yellow Jackets in batting average … Mau has a team-high 11 runs, 11 RBIs and eight steals and is tied with Macaira Fox and Steph Mraz for the team lead in hits with 17 … Fox has a team-high five doubles … Marisa Hall (7-3, 1.70 ERA, 52 strikeouts) and Hannah Welling (3-3, 5.14 ERA, 29 strikeouts) lead the BWU pitching staff … Hall ranks third in the OAC in strikeouts and seventh in ERA.

2023 Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:

  Batting Avg.       Hits       Runs       RBI  
1. Rosser .367   1. Rosser 22   1. Rosser 14   1. Rosser 10
2. Murray .308   2. Elliott 14   2.  Elliott 12   2.  Bican 9
3. Elliott .298     Griffin 14     Motylinski 12     Elliott 9
          Walls 14                

2023 Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:

  Wins       ERA       Strikeouts  
1. Lenser 5   1. Lenser 2.54   1. Bican 51
2.  Bican  4    2.  Bican 3.81   2. Lenser 29
                     

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 55-31 margin … Last season, ONU swept a home doubleheader with BWU by scores of 2-0 and 8-5.

Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her seventh year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She owns a career record of 144-84-1, a .631 winning percentage.