WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg baseball team (14-8 overall, 5-3 IIAC) hosts Simpson (3-19, 2-9) Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Luther (16-7, 6-5) in a weekend series.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the series lead at 89-50 against Simpson and have won the last 11-straight, which includes the doubleheader in Indianola last week. The Knights lead 84-59 against the Norse. Luther claimed the series last year as it won two of the three games.

Wartburg
Senior Zach Hovick (Roland) leads the team with his .313 average, three doubles, one triple, and 20 RBIs. Freshman JoJo McNair (Joliet, Ill.) joins him above .300 at .310.
and senior Eric Willis (Waverly) has a team-best 14 stolen bases and McNair follows with 13.

Senior Tanner Eckhart (Monticello, Minn.) leads the starting pitchers with a 1.02 ERA, is 4-1 with 44 strikeouts in 44.1 innings pitched.

Career Record Watch
Senior Blake Mahoney (Des Moines) is seventh in stolen bases (53). Classmate Clay Henning (Plymouth, Wis.) is fourth in assists (338).

Simpson
Scott Meier leads the team with his .356 average and Trey Kehoe follows at .317.

Luther
The Norse have three guys over .300: Trent Athmann at .384, Derek McCready at .329, and Bryce Hingst at .316.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of ten statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 2^nd in fielding percentage (.98), 22^nd in shutouts (3), 33^rd in WHIP (1.27), 39^th in walks allowed per nine innings (2.98), 49^th in stolen bases per game (2.18), 52^nd in earned run average (3.51), 57^th in stolen bases (48), 57^th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.4), 63^rd in hits allowed per nine innings (8.48), and 90^th in won-lost percentage (.636).
 
Individually, four Knights rank in the top 100 of six statistical categories: Eckhart ranks 21^st in earned run average (1.02), 32^nd in strikeout-to-walk ratio (8.8), and 41^st in WHIP (.9); senior Austin Bohling (Letts) ranks 32^nd in saves (4); Willis ranks 50^th in stolen bases (14); and McNair ranks 30^th in stolen bases per game (.76).