Offense pounds out 13 runs as Baseball bounces back with 13-2 victory over Suffolk (Mass.)

DAVENPORT, Fla. — The Ohio Northern baseball team bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 13-2 victory over Suffolk (Mass.) on Monday.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (7-1 Overall), Suffolk (Mass.) (0-4 Overall).
• Venue: NERP #1 - Davenport, Fla.

The Game

• Freshman Carson Stevens (Wyoming) led the way at the plate as he went 4-for-6 while scoring three runs with one RBI.
• Junior Evan Russ (Westfield, Ind.) knocked a 2 RBI single to kick things off for the Ohio Northern offense in the first.
• Stevens knocked his second hit of the day in the second inning to make it 3-0. Junior Kyler Lapp (Hall, Ill.) added one more on a sacrifice fly to wrap the inning up.
• Sophomore Aslyn Farinelli (Crown Point, Ind.) and senior Andrew Stechschulte (Findlay) each added RBIs in the third to make it 6-0.
• Sophomore Brock Kuhn (Shelbyville, Ind./Shelbyville) wrapped up ONU scoring with an RBI single in the ninth to make it 13-2.
• 11 Polar Bears recorded a hit in today's game and 9 hitters recorded an RBI.
• Brayden Windnagel (Etna/Watkins Memorial) pitched 6.0 innings on the day only allowing a single run on his way to pick up the win (1-0).

Notables

• The Polar Bears improve to 4-1 on their 12-game spring break trip.
• Ohio Northern now leads the series 1-0 all-time. 
• Senior Chase Armstrong (Boonville, Ind) is 5th all-time in ONU history in home runs (24) and doubles (38), 6th in RBIs (113), and is 8th in walks (80). 
• Armstrong (127), and Stechschulte (124), Reed (124) and Lapp (107) are all members of ONU's a00-Hit Club. 
• Ohio Northern is in its 121st season of baseball. The Polar Bears are 1499-1164-20 all-time, a winning percentage of .558.
• 15th-year head coach Gene Stechschulte is now 312-217 at Ohio Northern for a winning percentage of .585.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will continue play in the RussMatt invitational next when they take on Loras (Iowa) on Tuesday at 1:00 PM.