WAVERLY, Iowa-- Wartburg (6-6) hosts Concordia University Chicago (5-6) in a doubleheader (two nine-inning games) Sunday at noon.

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The Series
The Cougars hold the narrow lead at 7-6; although the Knights won the last two meetings, including last year's 10-7 upset win in Florida. The Cougars then were ranked No. 9.

Wartburg
Junior Blake Mahoney (Des Moines) is the team's leading hitter (.426). Seniors Jacob Thumann (DeWitt) and Samuel Van Fleet (St. Paul) co-lead the team with nine RBIs.
Senior Taylor Gilson (Oelwein) leads the starting pitchers with his 3.00 ERA and is 3-1 in 20 innings pitched with 23 strikeouts.

Concordia Chicago
The Cougars look to end a four-game losing streak.

Bryan VanDuser leads the team at the plate (.405) which includes four doubles and a triple. Keaton Conner leads the starting pitchers with a 0.45 ERA and is 2-1 with 18 strikeouts on the mound.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 14 NCAA stat categories.
The Knights rank 23^rd in walks allowed per nine innings (2.50), 25^th in strikeout-to-walk-ratio (2.87), 35^th in sacrifice flies (4), 43^rd in WHIP (1.30), 46^th in stolen bases (13), 50^th in stolen bases per game (2.17), 51^st in home runs (3), 60^th in fielding percentage (0.961), 65^th in home runs per game (0.50), 82^nd in hits (61), 88^th in hit by pitch (6), 89^th in hits allowed per nine innings (9.17), 93^rd in base on balls (23), and 97^th in (4.50).

Individually, four Knights rank in the top 100 of three different categories. Junior Chris Tomkins (Dubuque, Iowa) ranks 1^st in earned run average (0.00). Senior Jacob Thumann (DeWitt, Iowa) ranks 28^th in home runs (2).

Senior Max Langheinrich (Minnetonka, Minn) ranks 1^st in walks allowed per nine innings (0.00). Junior Tanner Eckhart (Monticello, Minn) ranks 1^st in walks allowed per nine innings (0.00).