Northwestern (2-10) will play its first home games of the 2022 season on Sunday, hosting St. John’s University. Thomas Tommies in Evanston for a doubleheader. The two-game series will be the first matchup between the two programs.
adversary
St. Thomas (2-Eight) is playing his first season of baseball as a member of Division I this spring, making an unprecedented jump from Division III last fall. With the promotion, UST became the second Division I school in the state of Minnesota, joining the Large Ten University of Minnesota. Last season, Tommies went 37-10 and finished second in the NCAA Division III baseball tournament. Over the past 25 years, the program has won two national championships and 19 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles.
This year, St. Thomas flourished on the mound, but struggled at the plate. The pitching staff has a strength of Three.80 and has compiled 113 strikeouts in 87.2 innings through the team’s first ten games. However, the UST batteries topped .190 collectively without a home run. In Tommies’ final game against Creighton on March 6, four pitchers combined to take out 23 Bluejays in a 15-round marathon, but the offense left 18 runners on base and St. Thomas lost three-2.
Junior catcher Charlie Bartholomew leads the team in batting average, on-base percentage and running percentage, reaching base safely in eight of ten games. Left-hander Graham Laubscher, a second-team Division One All-American a season ago, had 29 hits in 17 1/3 innings per mound.
Program
Cold temperatures in Evanston forced the cancellation of Friday’s game and Saturday’s doubleheader between the two teams. Northwest and St. Thomas will now play two games on Sunday.
Match 1: Sunday, March 13, 11:00 a.m. (seven-day match)
Match 2: Sunday March 13, 40 minutes after Match 1 (nine rounds)
Pitcher Pitchers Designed
St Thomas:
LZ Graham Laubscher (Partido 1): Zero-2, 5.71 ERA, 17.1 IP, 29Okay, 11BB
RHP Walker Retz (Partido 2): 1-1, 2.12 ERA, 17 IP, 24 Okay, 7 BB
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RHP Devon Schewe (Partido 2): Zero-Zero, 1.42 ERA, 12.2 IP, 20 Okay, Three BB
Northwest:
LD Mike Doherty (Partido 1): Zero-2, 11.57 ERA, 14 IP, 9 Okay, 7 BB
LZ Sean Sullivan (Partido 2): 1-Zero, 2.57 ERA, 14 IP, 22 Okay, 5 BB
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“Cats to watch
Second outfielder Ethan O’Donnell currently has a .317/.391/.952 slash line and is tied for second in the Large Ten doubles (7) 12 games this season. The All-Large Ten honored freshman had a great series against Santa Clara, going Eight-16 with three doubles between February 25-27.
On the Wildcats’ mound, Sean Sullivan currently ranks Eight in the Large Ten with 22, despite having the fewest top-ten innings in the conference. In his last outing, Sullivan turned 5 three-run innings while getting 7 hits and 1 against Cincinnati on March 4.
Another player to watch out for is freshman Andrew Pinkston. The Smyrna, Georgia native started the year well, hitting .364 in eight games.
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