WAVERLY, Iowa – Baseball will continue American Rivers Conference play on the road this week with a single game on Tuesday, Mar. 26 at Loras and then a weekend series on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 29-30 against Dubuque.
 
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The Series

• Loras
  • The Knights lead the all-time series 85-61
  • Loras was 3-1 vs Wartburg last season
  • Wartburg's last win at Loras was during the 2019 season
• Dubuque
  • Wartburg leads the all-time series 97-42
  • UD won last year's series two games to one
  • The Knights are 4-6 in their last 10 matchups against the Spartans

 
Wartburg

• The Knights enter the weekend with an overall record of 9-5 overall and 0-2 in A-R-C play
• Keaton Gray leads the Knights in batting average (.400), runs scored (20) and hits (24)
• Eliot Jurgensen leads the team in triples (four), home runs (four) and RBI (19)
• Zach Walton and Gray both have reached base in every game so far this season (14)
  • Gray also has an active hitting streak of 12 games
• Wartburg is 22/27 on stolen base attempts this season
  • Gray, Jurgensen and Walton make up 16 of the 22 stolen bases
• The Knights offense has recorded 10+ hits eight times this season
  • 7-1 record in those games
• Cael Boehmer leads all pitchers with 23.2 innings pitched through five starts
• Joey Ciero leads all pitchers with 24 strikeouts over 20 innings pitched through four starts
• 10 Wartburg pitchers have appeared in at least three games this season
  • Will Armstrong leads all pitchers with six appearances (1-0 record and one save)

Loras

• The Duhawks enter the week 11-4 overall after going 7-2 at the RussMatt Invitational in Auburndale, FL
• Nick DiBenedetto leads the Duhawks in hits (22), doubles (eight) and tied for first in home runs (two)
• Daniel Rodgers leads the team in batting average (.429) and Cody Sunny leads the team in RBI (22)
• Three Duhawk players have 20+ hits and five or more doubles through 15 games
  • DiBenedetto, Rodgers and Max McCallum
• TJ Boyd leads the Duhawks on the mound with 24 strikeouts through 22.1 innings pitched
  • Boyd has a team high three wins on the year
• Andrew Krause, Danny Hiemer and Aiden O'Hara lead all pitchers in appearances with five a piece
  • All three have recorded one save so far this season
• Loras has stolen 22 bases on the year while only allowing 11 stolen bases to opponents
  • McCallum leads the team with 10 steals on 11 attempts
• The Duhawks have scored 10+ runs in five of their first 15 games this season

 
Dubuque

• UD enters the weekend 13-4 and 2-0 in conference play after taking two games from Luther in their A-R-C opener
• Jake Cekander leads the Spartans in batting average (.393) and doubles (eight)
• Colin Husko leads the team in hits with 27 through the first 17 games
• Aidan Elfering and JD Schaffer lead the Spartans with three home runs each
  • Elfering is first in RBI (19) and Schaffer is second in RBI (18)
• Three Spartan pitchers have three wins on the season
  • Johnny Blake, Charlie Jaeger, and Aidan Elfering
• Blake leads the Spartans with 45 strikeouts through 33 innings pitched along with two complete games
• Six Spartan pitchers have appeared in five or more games this season
• Dubuque leads the A-R-C in stolen bases with 37 steals on 40 attempts
  • Husko leads the Spartans with 11 stolen bases on 11 attempts