WAVERLY, Iowa – Baseball is at home for five-straight games over the next five days against the top two teams in the American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) in No. 16/18 Coe College and No. 27/RV Buena Vista University.
 
The Knights begin the homestand with a three-game series against No. 16/18 Coe College beginning on Friday, Apr. 18 at 6 p.m. followed by a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 19 beginning at 1 p.m. Wartburg will then host No. 27/RV Buena Vista University on Tuesday, Apr. 22 for a doubleheader beginning at 3:30 p.m.
 
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The Series

• Coe
  • Coe swept last season's regular season series
    • Have won five straight against the Knights
  • Wartburg is 3-3 at home against Coe since 2020
  • The Kohawks are 6-3 on the road this season
• Buena Vista
  • Buena Vista has won four-straight against Wartburg
    • 8-2 in the last 10 matchups
  • BVU won the earlier meeting this season 6-4 in Storm Lake, Iowa
  • The Beavers are 8-2 on the road this season

 
A-R-C Standings

School	A-R-C	A-R-C PCT.	ALL	ALL PCT.	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak
Coe	13-2	.867	23-5	.821	8-1	6-2	9-2	W6
Buena Vista	11-2	.846	22-6	.786	7-2	8-2	7-2	W4
Wartburg	9-7	.562	15-11	.577	6-2	5-6	4-3	W1
Luther	7-9	.438	11-18	.379	7-4	2-11	2-3	W1
Nebraska Wesleyan	5-8	.385	16-13	.552	9-5	2-7	5-1	W1
Simpson	5-8	.385	11-16	.407	3-9	4-3	4-4	L1
Loras	6-10	.375	16-15	.516	3-7	3-6	10-2	L2
Central	5-10	.333	14-15	.483	1-5	6-7	7-3	W1
Dubuque	5-10	.333	13-16	.448	7-3	3-9	3-4	L3

 
Wartburg

• The Knights enter the week with an overall record of 15-12 and an A-R-C record of 9-7
  • Seven of the last 10 games have been decided by three or less runs
• Carter Stubitz and Zach Walton lead the Knights in RBI with 26 and 24
  • Walton has seven multi-RBI games and Stubitz has four this season
• Both Emerson Alberhasky (53) and Joey Ciero (45) lead Wartburg's pitching staff in strikeouts
  • Alberhasky ranks fourth in the A-R-C in strikeouts entering the weekend
• Four Knights have hit five or more home runs this season
  • Zach Walton (eight), Stubitz (five), Keegan Schmitt (five) and Eliot Jurgensen (five)
• Walton ranks inside the top three in on-base percentage, OPS, home runs, slugging percentage, runs scored and walks among all A-R-C players
• Wartburg is averaging 6.85 runs per game this season and allowing an average of 6.07 runs per game
• Ciero and Conner Funk each lead the team with three wins each on the mound this season
• The Knights are tied for the home run lead in the conference with 30 hit as a team through 27 games
• Co. Funk (three), Kyle Thompson (one) and Will Armstrong (one) have all recorded a save on the mound this season

Coe

• The Kowhawks enter the weekend series in Waverly with an overall record of 23-6 overall and 13-2 in A-R-C play
  • Coe is nationally ranked in both the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll (16) and the ABCA Top 25 poll (18)
  • 10-2 in April with losses to Luther and Cornell
• Coe has shutout seven opponents this season
  • Conference-best average of 3.86 runs allowed per game
• Jack Welsh is 4-0 on the mound this season and has an A-R-C leading 0.86 ERA and a .145 opponent batting average allowed
  • Coe has four pitchers with multiples wins recorded and no losses
• Jake Brosius and Ryan Thoreson lead Coe's offense in RBI with 22 each
  • Thoreson leads the team in batting average at .380
• Coe is currently ninth in the conference in home runs hit as a team with 11 through 29 games
  • J. Brosius (three), Jack Allison (two) and Ryan Brosius (two) are the only Kohawks with multiple homers
• The Kohawks have the most batters hit by pitches (64) and fourth most walks drawn (120) among A-R-C teams

Buena Vista

• Buena Vista enters the weekend with an overall record of 22-6 and an A-R-C record of 11-2
  • Ranked No. 27 in the latest ABCA national poll and is receiving votes in the D3baseball.com Top 25 national poll
  • 8-1 in the month of April so far
  • Will face Simpson this weekend in a three-game series
• The Beavers are batting .294 as a team this season, which ranks third among A-R-C teams
  • Kaden Struck leads the A-R-C in batting average this season at .467 through 90 at bats
• Morgan Smith is the top pitcher for BVU this season with an overall record of 5-0, an ERA of 1.51, 56 strikeouts and 53.2 innings pitched
  • Ranks top three in the conference in all of those statistics
• BVU averages 7.86 runs per game as a team while allowing just 4.43 runs per game defensively
  • Six different Beavers have 15+ RBI this season, led by Struck with 33
• Mark Eddie leads the BVU pitching staff and A-R-C in strikeouts this season with 67
  • 5-1 record on the season with an ERA of 2.20 over 49 innings pitched
• The Beavers lead the A-R-C in stolen bases this season with 48
  • Three players rank inside the top 10 of the conference in individual steals