WAVERLY, Iowa – Baseball will continue American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) play this week with four games on the road beginning on Tuesday, Mar. 25 against Buena Vista University followed by a three-game series against Loras on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 28-29.
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The Series
- BVU
- Tuesday will mark the 100th matchup between these teams all time
- Wartburg leads the all-time series 50-49
- BVU is 8-2 over Wartburg in the last 10 matchups
- Wartburg is 14-17 on the road in this series
- Loras
- The Knights lead the all-time series 57-34
- Wartburg took two out of three games in last season's regular season series
- The Knights are 17-11 overall on the road against Loras
- Loras is 6-4 overall in its last 10 games against Wartburg
Wartburg
- Wartburg enters conference play this weekend with an overall record of 8-6 with an A-R-C record of 2-1
- Defeated Simpson in two out of three games last weekend in the week's only action
- Three Knights have 10 or more RBI this season:
- Emerson Alberhasky's last two starts on the mound combined for 15 innings pitched, 22 strikeouts, two wins, six hits allowed and zero earned runs (one total run)
- Was named A-R-C Pitcher of the Week this week
- Gehrig Turner, Keegan Schmitt, Griffin Troha, Eliot Jurgensen, Carter Stubitz and Will Armstrong all lead the Knights with 10+ hits each through 14 games
- Schmitt leads the Knights in both total hits with 14 as well as extra base hits with six doubles, one triple and two home runs
- Wartburg averages five walks drawn per game, which leads all A-R-C teams
- The Knights have two pitchers with 30+ strikeouts this season in Alberhasky (32) and Joey Ciero (30)
- Cael Funk leads the Knights' pitching staff in ERA so far this season (min. three appearances) with an ERA of 1.54 over 11.2 innings pitched
- Wartburg is batting .243 as a team and averaging 6.5 runs per game scored through 14 games
- Alberhasky and Nicholas Nin lead the team with two wins on the mound each this season
Buena Vista
- The Beavers enter the mid-week matchup with an overall record of 11-4 and an A-R-C record of 3-0
- Opened A-R-C play with a series sweep over Luther College
- Have won five of the last six games
- BVU averages 6.9 runs scored per game and allows 3.9 runs per game
- Have not been shutout this season
- Both Morgan Smith and Mark Eddie have pitched over 30 innings for the Beavers this season
- Eddie has 40 strikeouts and Smith has 39 strikeouts (ranks first and second in the A-R-C)
- Combined 5-1 in decisions this season
- Joel Garcia (12), Drew Taylor (11) and Kaden Struck (10) lead the team in RBI this season
- Garcia leads the team in homeruns (four) and Taylor leads the team in both hits and extra-base hits
- BVU leads the A-R-C in fielding percentage with a team mark of 97.4%
Loras
- Loras enters the weekend series with an overall record of 12-6 overall and 2-1 in A-R-C play
- Opened A-R-C play last weekend with a series win over Nebraska Wesleyan University
- Averaged 13 runs per game against Nebraska Wesleyan
- Colin Kissane is the A-R-C leader in RBI (29) and tied for the lead in home runs with five
- Cody Sunny leads the A-R-C in doubles this season with 14
- As a team, Loras leads the conference in hits (189), runs scored (158) and doubles (51) so far this season
- Five different Duahwks have recorded at least one home run so far this season
- Sheldon Austin leads the Loras pitching staff with four wins on the mound this season
- Daniel Giusto and Adam Williamson are the only other Duhawks with two or more wins
- Eight Loras pitchers have 10+ strikeouts
