Baseball drops tight matchup at No. 1-ranked Denison 5-4

GRANVILLE — The Ohio Northern baseball team fell in another tight battle at No. 1-ranked Denison 5-4 on Sunday afternoon.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (24-12 Overall), #1 Denison (33-1).
• Venue: Big Red Field - Granville, Ohio.

Game Recap

• Sophomore Keegan Campbell started for Ohio Northern and threw 7.0 innings on the day while only allowing a single earned run.
• Denison jumped to an early 3-0 lead through the fourth inning.
• Junior Kyler Lapp (Hall, Ill.) got ONU on the board with a 2 RBI double
• Senior Robbie Reed (Goshen, Ky./Trinity) tied the game with an RBI single in the sixth.
• With 2 outs in the bottom of the eighth Denison scored the lead taking run on a RBI single.
• Reed reached on his third hit of the game in the ninth and Lapp then loaded the bases to mark his 4th hit of the game.
• With the bases loaded senior Chase Armstrong (Lousiville, Ky./Trinity) was hit by a pitch to tie the game a 4-4.
• The Big Red walked the game off with an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth.
• Lapp led the Polar Bear offense going 4-5 with 2 RBI.
• Reed also was 3-4 with an RBI and a 2 runs scored. 

Notables

• Ohio Northern now trails the all-time series with Denison 13-9.
• Through 36 games this season, Lapp leads the Polar Bears in batting with a .352 average.
• Senior Chase Armstrong (Lousiville, Ky./Trinity) is ONU's all-time leader in home runs with 29. He is also second all-time in ONU history in walks (101), is 3rd in RBIs (141), is fifth in doubles (42) and is fourth in runs scored (132).
• Fifth-year senior Andrew Stechschulte (Findlay) (169), Reed (154), Armstrong (149), Lapp (145), and junior Evan Russ (Westfield, Ind.) (117) are all members of ONU's 100-Hit Club. 
• Stechschulte is also fourth in ONU history with 43 career doubles and is now sixth with 112 RBI.
• Ohio Northern is in its 121st season of baseball. The Polar Bears are 1519-1181-20 all-time, a winning percentage of .562.
• 15th-year head coach Gene Stechschulte is now 331-232 at Ohio Northern for a winning percentage of .589.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will look to wrap up their Ohio Athletic Conference regular season play when they host Heidelberg at home on Saturday.