Baseball: Ohio Northern (11-1 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at Wilmington (3-11 Overall, 0-0 OAC)
Saturday, March 21, 2014, 1 pm, Tewksbury-Delaney Field, Wilmington, Ohio
Saturday's Doubleheader: Saturday's doubleheader marks the 2015 OAC opener for both schools ... ONU is riding a 10-game winning streak and is coming off a 17-7 victory over Albion (Mich.) in its home opener on Thursday at Wander Field ... Senior Dan Belliveau hit a pair of home runs and had 6 RBI to lead the ONU offense ... In two games this week, Belliveau is 5-8 with 3 home runs and 12 RBI ... Junior Ben Eckert (1-0) picked up the win on the mound, allowing only four hits and one earned run in 5.0 innings of relief. ... Through 13 games this season, junior Nick Eltzroth leads the team in batting with a .448 average ... Belliveau is second at .439 and freshman Jordan Bostater is third at .400 ... Belliveau leads the team in home runs (5), hits (18), runs scored (24) and RBIs (26) ... On the mound, Eltzroth is 3-0 with a 0.96 ERA ... Junior Alex Crabtree is 2-0 with a 0.64 ERA and Carr is 2-0 with a 1.20 ERA ... ONU is 19-2 over its last 21 games over the past two seasons ... The Quakers enter today’s game looking to snap a 9-game losing streak, which includes doubleheader sweeps at Earlham (Ind.) and Oberlin this week ... Saturday's game will be the 2015 home opener for WC ... The Quakers are led at the plate by junior Tyler Schrock with a .394 batting average and freshman Jake Robinson with a .357 average ... Junior Clay Cleaver is batting .352 with a team-high 15 RBI and is 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA on the mound.
Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBIs | |||||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | .448 | 1. | Belliveau |
18 | 1. | Belliveau | 24 | 1. | Belliveau | 26 |
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| 2. | Belliveau | .439 | 2. | LaMarca | 16 | 2. | LaMarca | 20 | 2. | LaMarca | 15 | |||
| 3. |
Bostater |
.400 |
3. | Eltzroth | 13 |
3. | Foley |
10 |
3. | Eltzroth | 13 | |||
| 4. | LaMarca | .372 |
4. |
Bostater | 12 |
3 Tied With |
6 | 4. | Bostater | 10 |
Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
||||||||
| 1. | Eltzroth | 3 |
1. | Kopicky | 0.00 |
1. | Eltzroth |
16 |
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| 2. | Crabtree | 2 | 2. | Crabtree |
0.64 | 2. |
Crabtree | 15 | ||
| Carr | 2 | 3. | Eltzroth |
0.96 |
3. | Kopicky | 14 | |||
| 4. | 4 Tied with |
1 | 4. | Carr | 1.20 |
Storer | 14 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the series between the two schools by a 24-20 margin ... ONU has won 6 straight games in the series, including a 4-2, 6-2 sweep last year in Ada.
Head Coach Gene Stechschulte: Stechschulte is in his third season as head coach of the Polar Bears. He has a career record of 71-57 (.555).