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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will face Franklin College in an elimination game of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament on Saturday at 11:30 am.  The winner will advance to play Earlham in the championship round 45 minutes after the completion of Saturday's first game.  Rose-Hulman would need to defeat Franklin once and Earlham twice to claim the 2022 HCAC Baseball Tournament Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.

HCAC TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS:
Thursday May 12: 
12:30 pm - Game #1: Anderson 6, Hanover 2 - BOX SCORE
4 pm - Game #2: Earlham 5, Rose-Hulman 3 - BOX SCORE
7 pm - Game #3: Franklin 7, Anderson 3 - BOX SCORE
Friday May 13:
12:30 pm - Game #4: Rose-Hulman 14, Hanover 6 - BOX SCORE
4:20 pm - Game #5: Earlham 9, Franklin 8 - BOX SCORE
8:20 pm - Game #6:  Rose-Hulman 8, Anderson 5 - BOX SCORE
Saturday May 14:   
11:30 am - Game #7:  Rose-Hulman 9, Franklin 6 - Top 6th - Resuming after a rain delay at 6 pm
7:30 pm - Game #8: Earlham vs. Winner Game # 7  
Sunday May 15:      
12:30 pm - Game #9: Winner Game #5 vs. Winner Game #7 (if game 7 winner wins game 8)

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ROSE-HULMAN BASEBALL ENTERING THE HCAC TOURNAMENT:
* First-year head coach Adam Rosen came to Rose-Hulman after spending the last six seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis.  Rosen was part of a team that won 34 games and finished 4th at the NCAA Division III World Series in 2021.
* Josh Mesenbrink has set a new single-season home run record at Rose-Hulman in 2022.  Mesenbrink has 14 home runs and enters the HCAC Tournament as the team leader in batting average (.388), runs scored (44), RBIs (48) and slugging (.827).
* Manuel Lopez leads the team in doubles (15) and triples (5) while batting .367 with 40 hits, 27 runs scored and 26 RBIs.
* Colter Coulliard-Rodak is the third Fightin' Engineer with double-figure douibles (13) and has added 43 hits.
* Brett Tuttle has shown versatile power with 6 doubles, 4 triples and 6 home runs to go along with a .331 batting average.
* Mesenbrink, Tuttle and Ian Kline have each been named HCAC Player of the Week and earned a spot on the D3baseball.com National Team of the Week at some point during the 2022 season.
* Ian Kline has led the pitching staff with a 7-2 record, a 2.67 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 60.2 innings of work.
* The starting pitching rotation has also included Brett Borcherding (2-1, 38 K, 37 IP), Matthew Rouse (3-4, 3.03, 40 K in 32.2 IP) and Josh Erpenbeck (3-1, 34 K, 42 IP).
* Adam Taylor and Schuyler Wilcox lead the bullpen with 3 saves each.  Korey Marlow (3-0, 1.13 ERA, 24 IP), Jonathan Oliger (1-0, 2.03), Paul Durell (1-0, 3.00) and Michael Yager (2-0, 5.40) have also thrown double digit innings this year.
* Rose-Hulman has made the NCAA Division III Tournament field 7 times, most recently with a trip to the NCAA Division III Central Regional Championship Game in 2016.