BGSU Hosts WMU On Senior Weekend At Steller Field

SENIOR WEEKEND
Seniors Greg Basalyga, Nick Glanzman, Tony Landi, Addison Rospert and C.J. Schildt will be playing their final weekend series at Steller Field this weekend. All five seniors will be recognized for their accomplishments at BGSU prior to Sunday's (May 14) first pitch.

Greg Basalyga: Has played in 183 career games … Has 15 career home runs … Hit a career-best .297 in 2015 … Leads the team this year in home runs (6) and slugging percentage (.482) … Hitting .277 as a senior with 11 doubles and 23 RBI.

Nick Glanzman: Has hit at least .270 in two of his seasons in the Orange and Brown … Has appeared in 171 games … Hit .270 in the 2013 MAC Championship team, and .277 on the 2015 team … Has 14 RBI this season, and leads the team with 115 putouts.

Tony Landi: Currently ranks tied for second all-time with 15 saves … Tied the single-season record as a junior with eight saves … Made 29 appearances last season, which ranks second all-time … Has three saves this season ... Has pitched in 82 games across his career.

Addison Rospert: Has been converted into a pitcher … In his last appearance at Ohio State on May 9, pitched a career-high 3.1 innings, allowing just one run while striking out a career-high four batters … Has appeared in 59 games as a Falcon.

C.J. Schildt: Pitched for BGSU during the 2016 season, and served as the Falcons' Friday starter … Made 11 starts, accumulating a 3-6 record while posting a 3.07 ERA in 2016 … Struck out 40 batters in 55.2 innings.

SCOUTING THE WMU BRONCOS
Western Michigan comes to Bowling Green this weekend with the top offense in the Mid-American Conference. The Broncos own a .308 batting average, and average 11.33 hits and 6.11 runs per ballgame. WMU has eight players hitting over .300, including junior Tanner Allison, who is a legit MAC Player of the Year Candidate. Allison is hitting a conference-high .387 with a MAC-best 60 RBI. The Broncos 5.61 team ERA ranks seventh in the league. WMU has no pitchers (with at least 15.0 innings) with an ERA below 3.50. Kyle Mallwitz is the top arm on the club. In 77.1 innings, he has 64 strikeouts and a 3.61 ERA. Western Michigan is 8-10 in the conference, and 19-23 overall. The Broncos have won each of their past two conference series, which includes triumphs over Eastern Michigan and Ohio.

SCHMITZ SAYS
"We have one MAC series remaining, and we are playing for our playoff lives. It's pretty simple, we need to win the series to have any sort of chance. I hope our guys attack this weekend with everything they have, and leave everything out on the field. We need to play for our seniors, and we need to play with some urgency and desperation. Western Michigan is a very talented team that leads the conference in a number of categories, so we will need to play our best series of the season to accomplishment what we need to accomplish."

THE BIGGEST SERIES OF THE YEAR
The Falcons play their final conference series of the season this weekend at Steller Field. Needing help regardless of the outcome this weekend, the Falcons need to win this weekend's series against Western Michigan to stay alive for another week. A series sweep will dramatically increase the club's chances of making it to the MAC Tournament. At this point, if the Falcons were to take the MAC Tournament, it's looking all but certain that the three team's they'd need to finish ahead of would be Miami (6-12 MAC), Toledo (7-11 MAC) and Western Michigan (8-10 MAC). Ohio and Buffalo are both 8-10 and in play, as is Northern Illinois, which is 9-9, but the Falcons own the head-to-head tiebreaker with the Huskies.

SCHMITZ MOVES INTO SECOND ON MAC'S ALL-TIME WINS LIST
With Bowling Green's 3-1 win over Miami on April 30, head coach Danny Schmitz picked up his 690th win at BGSU, moving him into second all-time by himself in wins as a MAC head coach. Joe Carbone earned 689 wins as Ohio's head coach from 1989-2012, while Fred Decker (WMU; 1976-2004) is the all-time leader in wins as a MAC head coach with 791. Schmitz's 360 MAC wins ranks third all-time, behind Carbone's 368 wins and Decker's 401 MAC victories.

MORE POP IN 2017
Bowling Green has had much more extra-base production in 2017. Last season, Bowling Green registered 55 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs. In 2017, with at least seven games to go, the Falcons have recorded 60 doubles, four triples and 19 home runs. BGSU's .315 slugging percentage is noticeably better than last year's .287 mark. Greg Basalyga and Randy Righter have led the power surge. Righter has a team-high 13 doubles and four home runs, while Basalyga has a team-best six home runs and 11 doubles.

SOUTHPAWS KEEP SPINNING IT
Junior Kody Brown and freshman Nathan Lohmeier, southpaw relief pitchers, have had dominant seasons in 2017. Over his last 8.1 innings, which covers his last four appearances, Lohmeier has not allowed a run, and he's worked at least 2.0 innings in all four of the appearances, while also racking up multiple strikeouts. Lohmeier, who has nine strikeouts in his last four outings, owns a team-low 2.83 ERA across 28.2 innings and 16 appearances. Brown has been insanely good as of late. Over his last 11 outings, which covers 16.2 innings and dates back to April 1, Brown has allowed just two runs and 10 hits. Brown has a 3.48 ERA for the season, and a 0.60 ERA across 15.0 MAC innings. For the season, opponents are hitting just .220 against Brown, who has racked up 31.0 innings in 24 appearances.

MR. RBI
Junior first baseman Randy Righter has begun to rack up the RBI near the end of his third season in the Orange and Brown. Righter has posted at least one RBI in each of the last four games, totaling 7 RBI across the four-game span. Righter crushed a two-run bomb in BG's middle game at Ohio last weekend, and in the team's extra-innings loss at Ohio State on Tuesday (May 9), he went 2-for-5 with three RBI and two doubles. Righter leads the Falcons with six multiple-RBI games, which includes two games with at least three RBI. The junior, who has five doubles in the last five games, has 20 RBI on the season and leads BGSU in runs (22), hits (47), doubles (13) and total bases (72).

THAT KID JAKE
Freshman Jake Wilson has played and started in 42 of Bowling Green's 43 games. Wilson, BGSU's centerfielder, has a .975 fielding percentage and leads the Falcons with 25 RBI. Wilson also has a team-high six steals, and 39 hits, which is tied for second on the team with Greg Basalyga. The lefty-swinging leadoff man has registered four doubles, one home run and 17 walks.

BG'S STRIKEOUT KING
Sophomore right-hander Chase Antle is having the opposite of a sophomore slump. Antle was in line for the victory last Sunday (May 7) before Ohio tied the game with two runs in the eighth inning. Antle went 5.0 innings, allowing three hits and two runs while striking out two batters and walking three. Over his last 15.0 innings, he's allowed just three runs while striking out 17 batters. With his effort at Ohio, he lowered his ERA to 3.96 on the season. Antle is 2-2 on the season, and in 38.2 innings, he's registered a team-high 44 strikeouts.

LANDI CHASING HISTORY
Senior closer Tony Landi earned the 15th save of his career at Northern Illinois on April 1. Landi, who was pitching about 45 minutes away from his hometown of Geneva, Illinois, had approximately 30 friends and family in attendance. With the save, the senior tied legendary righty Nick Bruns (2010-13) for second all-time on the program's career saves list. Landi now needs just three more saves to break the school record. Neil Schmitz racked up 17-career saves over his playing career from 2001-04. Last season, Landi tied the single-season record with eight saves, while making a total of 29 appearances. His 29 outings rank second-most all-time for a single season.

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