WAVERLY, Iowa – Baseball is set to open American Rivers Conference play this weekend with a three-game series on the road against Simpson beginning with a game on Friday, Mar. 21 at 6 p.m. followed by a doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 22 beginning at 1 p.m.
 
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The Series

• Wartburg is 71-23 all-time against the Storm
• The Knights won two out of three games against Simpson a season ago
• Wartburg is 6-4 against Simpson in the last 10 matchups
  • Two of the last four matchups have gone to extra innings

 
Wartburg

• Wartburg enters conference play this weekend with an overall record of 6-5
  • Split a nonconference doubleheader against St. Olaf last weekend
  • First three game series of the season (have split all three doubleheaders played)
• Gehrig Turner, Keegan Schmitt and Will Armstrong all lead the Knights with 12 hits each through 11 games
  • Schmitt leads the Knights in extra base hits with five doubles, one triple and two home runs
• Wartburg averages 4.72 walks drawn per game, which leads all A-R-C teams
• The Knights have three pitchers with 15+ strikeouts this season in Joey Ciero (28), Emerson Alberhasky (19) and Nicholas Nin (15)
• Zach Walton (11) and Turner (10) lead the Knights in RBI
  • Walton leads the team in home runs with three
• Cael Funk leads the Knights' pitching staff in ERA so far this season (min. two appearances) with an ERA of 1.54 over 11.2 innings pitched
• Wartburg is batting .250 as a team and averaging 5.5 runs per game scored through 11 games
  • Allows 4.7 runs per game
• Alberhasky, Ciero, Funk and Nin all have one win on the mound this season
  • Nin leads the team with a 2-1 record

 
Simpson

• The Storm enter the weekend with an overall record of 5-8
  • This weekend is the first A-R-C action for Simpson as well
  • 3-3 in last six contests
• Eight different Storm hitters have driven in five or more runs this season
  • Ian Baldwin leads the team in RBI
• Trey Castile has the most time on the mound this season for Simpson with four games started and 16.1 innings pitched
  • Eli Feekin has pitched 16 innings over five total appearances
• Both Castile (24) and Feekin have over 20 strikeouts this season
• Baldwin, Will Carlock, Drew Carlson and Bryson Gibson all lead Simpson with 13 hits each so far this season
• As a team Simpson averages just over six runs per game and has a team batting average of .284