BGSU To Face Fighting Irish Tuesday, Host Golden Grizzlies Wednesday

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball team has a pair of midweek matchups, traveling to face Notre Dame on Tuesday (May 2) and hosting Oakland on Wednesday (May 3). The Falcons and Fighting Irish are scheduled for a 6 p.m. first pitch in South Bend on Tuesday before a 3 p.m. start against the Golden Grizzlies on Wednesday at home at Steller Field. Bowling Green enters the week with a 15-25 overall record while being 9-15 within the Mid-American Conference.

Current Weekend Schedule
Tuesday, May 2 | 6 p.m. | at Notre Dame
Wednesday, May 3 | 3 p.m. | vs. Oakland

Scouting Notre Dame
Notre Dame has won seven of their last nine games, including taking two of three from Florida State over the weekend, outscoring the Seminoles 26-13 over the course of the series. BGSU will be the second MAC team that Notre Dame has faced this season, picking up a 2-1 victory over Western Michigan on April 19.

Against The Fighting Irish All Time
Tuesday will mark the first meeting between Bowling Green and Notre Dame since the 2009 season, a game that the Fighting Irish won 11-6. All-time, the series favors Notre Dame at 36-22-1. The last win for the Falcons in the series came during the 2006 campaign, topping the Fighting Irish 11-8 in South Bend.

Scouting Oakland
Oakland is coming off a win against Wright State on Sunday (April 3) with a 6-3 win, snapping a three-game losing streak. Since the last meeting, Oakland has gone 5-3 with a win over Eastern Michigan and a sweep of Youngstown State. Ian Cleary leads the Golden Grizzlies with a .324 batting average with team-highs in hits (45), RBI (29) and doubles (14).

Against The Golden Grizzlies All Time
Wednesday's meeting will mark the 26th meeting all-time between Bowling Green and Oakland with the Orange and Brown holding a 19-6 advantage in the series. The two teams first met in 1979 with the Falcons sweeping a May 1 doubleheader at home. The Falcons went on to win the first seven meetings between the two. The last meeting came earlier this season on April 18 with BGSU taking a 16-4 final behind a program-record 15 walks.

What To Watch For

The last time Bowling Green topped Notre Dame was during the 2006 season with an 11-8 victory in South Bend, making the Falcons 1-1 in the last two meetings against Notre Dame.
The last time BGSU won back-to-back games against Oakland came during the 2007-08 season, capping a five-game winning streak against the Golden Grizzlies. This will be the sixth meeting since the streak ended.

Falcon Facts To Follow

As a team, the Orange and Brown are averaging 1.70 stolen bases per game which is 44th in the country.
The Falcons enter the week tied for 46th in the nation for sacrifice bunts with 25 this season, which is third in the Mid-American Conference.
Nathan Archer heads into the week tied for fourth in the nation for sacrifice flies with seven. Two players are tied at the top with nine and one has eight.
Over the weekend, Archer hit four home runs over the three-game series. All seven of Archer's home runs have come in the last nine games. He also is in the midst of a 13-game on-base streak. During the streak he is batting .313 (15-for-48) with 16 RBI, 13 runs scored, seven home runs, seven walks drawn and three doubles.
Nathan Rose now has 15 doubles on the season, a new career-high for his time as a Falcon and fifth in the MAC. Rose needs one more double to enter the top 10 all-time in the record book for doubles in a season. Rose also has a six-game on-base streak.
Sam Seidel has tallied six sacrifice bunts for BGSU this season, leading the team and tied for first in the conference.
Leighton Banjoff enters the week with a seven-game on-base streak, drawing nine walks over the span.
Kyle Gurney has a four-game hitting streak entering the week and has reached base in 24 of the last 25 games. Gurney is also four doubles away from entering the record book, needing 41 to tie Lee Morrison for 10th all-time. On the defensive side, Gurney has 731 putouts and needs 750 to enter the top 10 in the record book.
Ryan Johnston has put together a four-game hitting streak for the Falcons as well, tallying five RBI over the four games.
Logan Bell made his fourth appearance of the season over the weekend. On the year, Bell has tossed 2.2 innings over four appearances without allowing a run.
Gage Schenk enters the week tied with Burke Badenhop for 10th all-time in program history for career strikeouts with 177. Schenk needs 179 to tie Kyle Knoblauch for ninth, 183 to tie Jason Tippie for eighth, 184 for seventh with Keith Laughlin, 185 for sixth with Jason Kelley and 186 to match Andrew Abrahamowicz for fifth.

Last Time Out
Over the weekend, the Falcons took one game in the three-game series against the Ball State Cardinals with the weekend run differential being even, seeing both teams score 19 runs. Nathan Archer led the way for BGSU with four home runs over the three games while Sam Seidel added two of his own.

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