WAVERLY, Iowa – Wartburg baseball will begin postseason play on Thursday, May 8 with an American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) Tournament matchup against Simpson College at Veterans Memorial Stadium beginning at 11 a.m.
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Ticket Information
Day Pass: $10 (Adult), $6 (High School / A-R-C Student & Seniors 62+)
Tournament Pass: $20 (Adult), $12 (High School / A-R-C Student & Seniors 62+)
A-R-C Tournament Schedule
Thursday, May 8:
Game 1: 11:00 am - No. 3 Luther vs. No. 6 Nebraska Wesleyan at Mount Mercy
Game 2: 11:00 am - No. 4 Wartburg vs. No. 5 Simpson at Veterans Memorial
Game 3: 2:00 pm - Game 2 Winner vs. No. 1 Buena Vista at Veterans Memorial
Game 5: 3:00 pm - Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser at Mount Mercy
Game 4: 5:00 pm - Game 1 Winner vs. No. 2 Coe at Veterans Memorial Stadium
Friday, May 9 - All Games at Veterans Memorial Stadium:
Game 6: 12:00 pm - Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner
Game 7: 3:00 pm - Game 5 Winner vs. Lower Seeded Loser of Games 3 & 4
Game 8: 6:00 pm - 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 10 - All Games at Veterans Memorial Stadium:
Game 9: 11:00 am - Game 8 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser
Game 10: 2:00 pm - Game 6 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner
Game 11: 5:00 pm - Game 6 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner (if necessary)
The Series/A-R-C Tournament History
- Wartburg won two out of three games against Simpson this season
- The Knights are 5-5 in the last 10 matchups against Simpson
- First A-R-C Tournament matchup between these teams since 2014
- In the A-R-C Tournament, Wartburg is 11-5 against Simpson
- Wartburg is 66-40 all-time in the A-R-C Tournament
- Wartburg's 30th appearance is most among conference teams
- The Knights have won 10 A-R-C Tournament titles
- 2017 is the most recent championship
- Wartburg has entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed in the past three seasons
- Advanced to A-R-C title game in 2022 as six seed
- This marks the 20th A-R-C Tournament hosted at Veterans Memorial Stadium
Wartburg
- The Knights enter the conference tournament as the fourth seed with an overall record of 20-18 and an A-R-C record of 12-12
- Won four A-R-C series this regular season (Defeated Simpson, UD, Loras and Central), taking two out of three games in each
- Eliot Jurgensen leads Wartburg in batting average (.333) and hits this season (45)
- Has reached base in 25-straight games
- Wartburg's 37 home runs leads the A-R-C
- Four Knights have hit seven or more home runs as well as recorded 25 or more RBI so far this season
- Walton (32) and Stubitz (31) lead the A-R-C in walks drawn this season
- Wartburg has drawn 169 walks this season as well as been hit by 60 pitches (both rank second among A-R-C teams)
- Joey Ciero leads the team with five wins on the mound this season (5-3)
- Both Emerson Alberhasky (67) and Joey Ciero (60) lead Wartburg's pitching staff in strikeouts
- Alberhasky ranks sixth and Ciero ranks seventh in the A-R-C in strikeouts
- Six different Knights have hit a triple this season
- Wartburg is averaging 8.63 hits per game along with 6.63 runs per game
- Allowing 8.92 hits per game along with 5.84 runs per game
- The Knights rank eighth overall in stolen bases as a team with 40 stolen on 56 attempts
Simpson
- The Storm enter the A-R-C Tournament as the No. 5 seed with an overall record of 17-21 and an A-R-C record of 11-13
- Simpson is 6-3 in its last nine games played
- Simpson has the second least amount of strikeouts at the plate in the conference, but are ninth overall in team batting average at .261
- Has grounded into 25 double plays this season (leads A-R-C)
- Trenten Kingrey has a team-high 13 doubles this season (fifth in A-R-C) and Nate Cagley ranks 11th in the A-R-C in both batting average (.339) and RBI (33)
- Simpson has allowed just 16 home runs through 37 games as a pitching staff (tied for A-R-C best)
- Also has allowed 24 triples this season (most in A-R-C)
- Trey Castile is the Storm's top starting pitcher this season with top-10 statistics in ERA (3.70, seventh), strikeouts (83, third) and innings pitched (65.2, fifth) among all A-R-C pitchers
- Kingrey (six), Drew Carlson (five) and Jacob Roberts (four) have hit 15 of Simpson's 23 home runs this season
- Simpson has stolen just 17 bases this season (least amount in A-R-C) on 20 total attempts
