WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg baseball team (24-11 overall) will be the No. 2 seed for the Iowa Conference Tournament this weekend. The Knights will face the winner of No. 3 Coe/No. 6 Buena Vista at 2 p.m. Thursday.

NEW schedule for 2018
Double-Elimination Format Schedule
Thursday, May 10
Game 1 11 a.m. #5 Luther 7, #4 Loras 0
Game 2 11 a.m. #3 Coe 4, #6 Buena Vista 3
Game 3 2 p.m. #2 Wartburg 5, #3 Coe 0
Game 4 5 p.m. #5 Luther vs. #1 Dubuque
Game 5 8 p.m. #4 Loras vs. #6 Buena Vista

Friday, May 11
Game 6 12 p.m. #2 Wartburg  vs. Game 4 Winner
Game 7 3 p.m. Game 5 Winner vs. Lower Seeded Loser of Games 3 & 4
Game 8 6 p.m. Game 7 Winner vs. Higher Seeded Loser of Games 3 & 4
(Exception: If one of the Game 3 or 4 Losers already has had a bye, that team will play in Game 7,
regardless of seed.)

Saturday, May 12
Game 9 10 a.m. Game 8 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser
Game 10 1 p.m. Game 6 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner
Game 11 4 p.m. Game 6 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner (if necessary)
[Sunday is a permissible rain date.]
 
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Wartburg
The Orange and Black are 60-30 all-time in the tournament. The Knights have qualified for the tournament every season and this is the first time they are the No. 2 seed since 2014.

Wartburg
Senior Zach Hovick (Roland) leads the team with his .333 average. Classmate Cody Hyler (Des Moines) joins him above .300 at .314. Hovick and senior David Fitzgerald (Dubuque) have team-high 25 RBIs.

Freshman JoJo McNair (Joliet, Ill.) and senior Eric Willis (Waverly) co-lead the team with 18 stolen bases.

Senior Tanner Eckhart (Monticello, Minn.) leads the starting pitchers with a 1.32 ERA, is 6-2 with 64 strikeouts in 68.0 innings pitched.

Career Record Watch
Senior Blake Mahoney (Des Moines) is now sixth in stolen bases (57). Classmate Clay Henning (Plymouth, Wis.) is now third in assists (365). Hovick is sixth in putouts (652) and Fitzgerald is 10th (532).

Senior Austin Bohling (Letts) is tied for first with 14 saves and Eckhart is now tied for eighth in strikeouts (183).

Single Season Record
Bohling continues to extend his margin as the single season leader in saves.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 12 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 1^st in fielding percentage (.979), 17^th in shutouts (5), 23^rd in walks allowed per nine innings (2.84), 30^th in WHIP (1.23), 38^th in strikeout-to-walk radio (2.44), 44^th in earned run average (3.61), 53^rd in win-loss percentage (.686), 60^th in hits allowed per nine innings (8.79), 63^rd in stolen bases per game (1.94), 75^th in Double Plays Per Game (.80), 81^st in stolen bases (68) and 97^th in Sacrifice Bunts (24).
 
Individually, three Knights rank in the top 100 of six statistical categories: Bohling ranks 3^rd in saves (11), Eckhart ranks 16^th in earned run average (1.32), 20^th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (8.00), 36^th in walks allowed per nine innings (1.06) and 42^nd in WHIP (.99). McNair ranks 50^th in stolen bases per game (.62).