WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg baseball team (14-7 overall, 5-0 IIAC) travels to face Luther (10-9, 3-5) in a conference weekend series. The Knights bring an overall winning streak of seven and a conference winning streak of five into the matchup.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 70-46. The Knights won three of the four regular-season meetings last year, but the Norse won the two games in the conference tournament.

Wartburg
Junior Blake Mahoney (Des Moines) has a team-best .407 batting average. Seven teammates join him above .300: junior Eric Willis (Waverly) at .402, classmate David Fitzgerald (Dubuque) at .358, senior Austin Lechtenberg (DeWitt) at .333, junior Cody Hyler (Des Moines) at .323, senior Jacob Thumann (DeWitt) at .321, and junior Clay Henning (Plymouth, Wis.) at .317.

Mahoney leads the team with 21 RBIs.

Senior Max Langheinrich (Minnetonka, Minn.) leads the starting pitchers with a 3.51 ERA and is 2-1 in 33.1 innings pitched with 27 strikeouts.

Career Record Watch
Thumann needs four home runs to become the program's all-time leader in that category. Gilson has entered the top 10 list at No. 9 in strikeouts (169).

Luther
Joe Silversmith and Mitch Bruggers co-lead the team (.371) and Joey Sullivan follows at .350. Cody Reimer leads the starting pitching staff with his 2.49 ERA and is 2-1 in 25.1 innings pitched with 21 strikeouts.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 13 NCAA stat categories.

The Knights rank 5^th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.44), 8^th in walks allowed per nine innings (2.18), 12^th in fielding percentage (0.974), 20^th in WHIP (1.24), 52^nd in home runs per game (0.63), 53^rd in batting average (0.318), 54^th in home runs (12), 63^rd in earned run average (3.80), 72^nd in stolen bases per game (1.89), 76^th in stolen bases (36), 79^th in hits allowed per nine innings (9.00), 88^th in W/L pct (0.632), and 96^th in strikeouts per nine innings (7.5).

Individually, one Knight ranks in the top 100 of two different categories. Senior Jake Thumann (Dewitt, Iowa) ranks 25th in home runs (5), and 30^th in home runs per game (0.26).