Thursday, May 16
Athens, Ohio
4:00 PM
University of Akron
at
Ohio University
Baseball Battles Ohio to Conclude the 2024 Season
May 15 | Baseball
AKRON, Ohio – Akron concludes the 2024 season with a trip to Athens, Ohio., to battle the Ohio Bobcats for a conference series starting on Thursday, May 16.
HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
GM 1: Stats | Video
GM 2: Stats | Video
GM 3: Stats | Video
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Ohio Leads 70-49
SCOUTING REPORT
The Bobcats are 16-31 overall, 11-16 in MAC play and 10-8 at home this season.
Ohio recently fell to Marshall 13-11 to conclude the Bobcats non-conference schedule. The Bobcats scored 11 runs on 10 hits while three players had three hits. Caleb Karll had five RBI with a grand slam.
Gideon Antle leads the Bobcats with a .360 batting average. He also leads the squad with 67 hits, 17 doubles, 10 home runs and 47 RBI.
JR Nelson and AJ Rausch both are hitting .319. Nelson has 60 hits, 10 doubles, one home run, 13 RBI and a team-best 12 stolen bases. Rausch has 46 hits, six doubles, six home runs and 26 RBI.
Blake Gaskey leads the Bobcat starters with a 6.68 ERA in 13 starts. He's thrown a team-high 62 innings and struck out 53. Zach Weber leads the bullpen with a 3.99 ERA in 13 appearances. He's gone 4-3 on the season with one save and 28 strikeouts. Tyler Peack and Luke Olson are tied for the lead in saves with three each.
ZIPS AT A GLANCE
Akron is coming into the final series of the season with a 14-37 overall record, a 9-18 record in the MAC and an 8-20 record on the road.
The Zips recently fell to Michigan 14-4 on Tuesday. Jack Poist recorded his 200th career hit when he hit a home run in the seventh inning.
Max Bowman leads the Zips in batting average (.328), hits (61), triples (4), home runs (7) and RBI (44). Sam Seeker joins Bowman with a batting average above .300 with a .307 average this season. He has 50 hits, 14 doubles, five home runs, 30 RBI and eight stolen bases.
Poist is tied with Seeker with 14 doubles and had 46 hits, two triples, three home runs, 28 RBI and a team-best 19 stolen bases.
Jared Schaeffer leads the pitching staff with a 3.77 ERA in 12 starts. He's thrown one complete game, 76.1 innings and struck out 57. Sean Perkins has a 4.86 ERA out of the pen in 20 appearances. He had 43 strikeouts in 37 innings of work. Jack Kelley has 51 strikeouts over 18 appearances and seven starts while Spencer Atkins had 43 strikeouts in 11 starts and 15 appearances.
COMMON OPPONENTS WITH OHIO (NON-MAC SCHOOLS)
Youngstown State (HORIZON), Dayton (ATLANTIC 10)
MR. 200
Jack Poist recorded his 200th career hit when he sent a home run over the right field fence in the 7th inning at Michigan.
GOING THE DISTANCE
Jared Schaeffer was named the Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Week on April 22.
Throwing his first career complete game, Schaeffer helped lead the Akron Zips to a 7-2 victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday, April 20.
The Sophomore righty went the full nine innings where he allowed just two unearned runs, none earned, walking none, allowing nine hits while tying his season-high for strikeouts with six k's against the Eagles.
PERKS OF THE JOB
Sean Perkins was named the MAC Pitcher of the Week on March 4 after picking up a win over No. 10/12 Duke.
Coming in down 2-1 against Duke in the second game of the series, Perkins pitched five innings of near-spotless baseball as the Zips defeated the No. 10/12 Blue Devils 4-3 on March 2. Throwing the final five innings, Perkins held his own with just two hits allowed along with one run and two strikeouts to earn the win. He sent Duke three-up-three down in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings and ended the ninth with a strikeout. Perkins also held Duke's hitters to a combined .118 batting average over the five innings of work.
ONE TO REMEMBER
Head coach Bryan Faulds collected his first win leading the Akron Zips in the second game of a doubleheader against Illinois on February 14. Down 4-2 heading to the bottom of the seventh, Akron battled to force extra-innings when Max Bowman sent a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to give the Zips a 5-4 victory.
HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
GM 1: Stats | Video
GM 2: Stats | Video
GM 3: Stats | Video
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
Ohio Leads 70-49
SCOUTING REPORT
The Bobcats are 16-31 overall, 11-16 in MAC play and 10-8 at home this season.
Ohio recently fell to Marshall 13-11 to conclude the Bobcats non-conference schedule. The Bobcats scored 11 runs on 10 hits while three players had three hits. Caleb Karll had five RBI with a grand slam.
Gideon Antle leads the Bobcats with a .360 batting average. He also leads the squad with 67 hits, 17 doubles, 10 home runs and 47 RBI.
JR Nelson and AJ Rausch both are hitting .319. Nelson has 60 hits, 10 doubles, one home run, 13 RBI and a team-best 12 stolen bases. Rausch has 46 hits, six doubles, six home runs and 26 RBI.
Blake Gaskey leads the Bobcat starters with a 6.68 ERA in 13 starts. He's thrown a team-high 62 innings and struck out 53. Zach Weber leads the bullpen with a 3.99 ERA in 13 appearances. He's gone 4-3 on the season with one save and 28 strikeouts. Tyler Peack and Luke Olson are tied for the lead in saves with three each.
ZIPS AT A GLANCE
Akron is coming into the final series of the season with a 14-37 overall record, a 9-18 record in the MAC and an 8-20 record on the road.
The Zips recently fell to Michigan 14-4 on Tuesday. Jack Poist recorded his 200th career hit when he hit a home run in the seventh inning.
Max Bowman leads the Zips in batting average (.328), hits (61), triples (4), home runs (7) and RBI (44). Sam Seeker joins Bowman with a batting average above .300 with a .307 average this season. He has 50 hits, 14 doubles, five home runs, 30 RBI and eight stolen bases.
Poist is tied with Seeker with 14 doubles and had 46 hits, two triples, three home runs, 28 RBI and a team-best 19 stolen bases.
Jared Schaeffer leads the pitching staff with a 3.77 ERA in 12 starts. He's thrown one complete game, 76.1 innings and struck out 57. Sean Perkins has a 4.86 ERA out of the pen in 20 appearances. He had 43 strikeouts in 37 innings of work. Jack Kelley has 51 strikeouts over 18 appearances and seven starts while Spencer Atkins had 43 strikeouts in 11 starts and 15 appearances.
COMMON OPPONENTS WITH OHIO (NON-MAC SCHOOLS)
Youngstown State (HORIZON), Dayton (ATLANTIC 10)
MR. 200
Jack Poist recorded his 200th career hit when he sent a home run over the right field fence in the 7th inning at Michigan.
GOING THE DISTANCE
Jared Schaeffer was named the Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Week on April 22.
Throwing his first career complete game, Schaeffer helped lead the Akron Zips to a 7-2 victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday, April 20.
The Sophomore righty went the full nine innings where he allowed just two unearned runs, none earned, walking none, allowing nine hits while tying his season-high for strikeouts with six k's against the Eagles.
PERKS OF THE JOB
Sean Perkins was named the MAC Pitcher of the Week on March 4 after picking up a win over No. 10/12 Duke.
Coming in down 2-1 against Duke in the second game of the series, Perkins pitched five innings of near-spotless baseball as the Zips defeated the No. 10/12 Blue Devils 4-3 on March 2. Throwing the final five innings, Perkins held his own with just two hits allowed along with one run and two strikeouts to earn the win. He sent Duke three-up-three down in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings and ended the ninth with a strikeout. Perkins also held Duke's hitters to a combined .118 batting average over the five innings of work.
ONE TO REMEMBER
Head coach Bryan Faulds collected his first win leading the Akron Zips in the second game of a doubleheader against Illinois on February 14. Down 4-2 heading to the bottom of the seventh, Akron battled to force extra-innings when Max Bowman sent a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to give the Zips a 5-4 victory.
