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SENIOR DAY PROGRAM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team celebrates Senior Day with a home doubleheader on Sunday at 12 PM and 3 PM. The Fightin' Engineers will honor their five seniors,
Andy Krajecki,
Blake Deckard,
Ben Christiansen,
Brenden Harris, and
Sam Stieby prior to the start of the game.
ROSE-HULMAN SENIORS:
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Ben Christiansen has appeared in 56 games with 25 starts at Rose-Hulman, with career totals of 33 hits, 20 runs scored, and three home runs. He boasts a career .384 on-base percentage and ranks 11th in school history by being hit by a pitch 12 times this season. After graduation, Ben will be moving to Crane, Indiana to work as a Systems Engineers for the Naval Service Welfare Center. The mechanical engineering major from Auburn, Indiana also has a concentration in Advanced Transportation and minors in Entrepreneurial Studies and Electrical Engineering.
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Blake Deckard has appeared in 49 games with 29 starts at Rose-Hulman, with career totals of 23 hits, 20 runs scored, and one home run. The Biomedical Engineering major from Ellettsville, Indiana, and after graduation, he will be moving to Jackson, Wyoming to begin working as a Biomedical Engineer for Paustenbach and Associates.
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Brenden Harris is a Nashville, Tennessee native who has appeared in 7 career games as a Fightin' Engineer over his four-year career. After this season, Brenden will be returning to Rose-Hulman to finish his degree in Optical Engineering.
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Andy Krajecki has appeared in 97 games with 79 starts at Rose-Hulman, with career totals of 110 hits, 38 extra base hits, 11 home runs, and 62 RBIs. He currently ranks in the top-15 in school history in career slugging percentage at .542. After graduation, the Optical Engineering major from Hampshire, Illinois will move to Broadview, Illinois to begin working for G.C. Laser Systems.
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Sam Stieby has appeared on the mound in ten games for Rose-Hulman with 11.1 innings pitched and 6 strikeouts. After graduating, the computer science major from Hamilton, Ohio will begin working as an Associate Software Engineer for Fidelity Investments in Fort Worth, Texas.
ROSE-HULMAN GAME NOTES:
* The Fightin' Engineers come in to this weekend with a 18-18 record and at 10-8 in the HCAC.
* Rose-Hulman comes into this weekend after going just 1-3 against Anderson and Earlham last weekend.
* The Fightin' Engineers have dropped 11 of their last 14 games since their Easter weekend series with Hanover.
* Rose-Hulman currently sit in 4th place in the HCAC, tied with Manchester and one-game up on Anderson and Earlham.
* The team currently ranks 5th in school history in hit by pitches in a season with 54, tied with the 2006 and 2017 squads.
* They also rank 8th in school history in walks in a season with 167, tied with the 2018 squad.
* The team currently has the 8th highest ERA in school history for a single season.
* After playing Bluffton, the Fightin' Engineers will return home for Senior Day against the Manchester Spartans on May 7.
TEAM HITTING LEADERS (Min. of 76 ABs):
BATTING AVERAGE -
Andy Krajecki (.362)
ON BASE PERCENTAGE -
Andy Krajecki (.458)
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE -
Andy Krajecki (.579)
HITS -
Andy Krajecki (55)
DOUBLES -
Andy Krajecki (13)
TRIPLES -
Kade Kline (3)
HOME RUNS -
Andy Krajecki (6)
RBIs -
Colter Couillard-Rodak (31)
RUNS -
Kade Kline (46)
WALKS -
Dalton Busboom (29)
HIT BY PITCHES -
Ben Christiansen (12)
STEALS -
Kade Kline (20)
TEAM PITCHING LEADRS (Min. of 19 IP):
ERA -
Warren Goik (3.86)
WHIP -
Warren Goik (1.38)
WINS -
Ian Kline (4)
SAVES -
Jonathan Oliger (4)
OPPONENT BATTING AVERAGE -
Warren Goik (.228)
STRIKEOUTS -
Ian Kline (57)
INNINGS -
Ian Kline (55.2)
MANCHESTER NOTES:
* Manchester comes into the weekend at 19-16 on the season and 10-8 in the HCAC and are tied with the Fightin' Engineers for fourth place in the HCAC.
* The Spartans take on the Mount St. Joseph Lions in a doubleheader on Saturday.
* Joel Kennedy leads the team in hitting with a .391 batting average and a 1.143 OPS on the season.
* The Spartans have three players with at least 19 extra base hits including Kennedy, Aidan Stevens, and Harrison Pittsford.
* Ty Lawson leads the pitching staff with a .460 ERA on the season in nine starts.
* After facing Rose-Hulman, the Spartans will compete in the HCAC Baseball Tournament in Kokomo, Indiana next week.
SERIES HISTORY:
* Rose-Hulman leads the all-time series 40-39 over Manchester.
* The Fightin' Engineers lead the Spartans 5-3 dating back to the 2019 season including a sweep last year.
* Rose-Hulman is 23-13 all-time at home against the Spartans.
* Manchester has only won one game in Terre Haute since the 2016 season.
ROSE-HULMAN CAREER RECORDS:
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Dalton Busboom - 10th in school history with a .984 career fielding percentage
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Ian Kline - 13th in school history with 129 strikeouts
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Kade Kline - T-10th in school history with 26 stolen bases
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Andy Krajecki - 14th in school history with a .544 slugging percentage
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Jonathan Oliger - T-14th in school history with 4 single-season saves
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Schuyler Wilcox - T-6th in school history with 6 career saves
ROSE-HULMAN SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS:
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Dalton Busboom - 5th in school history with 29 walks, 8th with 300 fielding chances, and 8th with 277 putouts
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Ben Christiansen - T-11th in school history with 12 times being hit by a pitch
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Colter Couillard-Rodak - T-12th in school history with 26 walks
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Kade Kline - T-3rd in school history with 20 stolen bases, and 13th with an 87% stolen base percentage
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Jonathan Oliger - T-10th in school history with 4 single-season saves
HCAC STANDINGS:
1. Franklin (16-4) - clinched #1 seed
T2. Transylvania (13-7) - clinched
T2. Bluffton (13-7) - clinched
4. Manchester (12-8)
5. Rose-Hulman (11-9)
6. Earlham (10-10)
7. Anderson (10-10)
8. Hanover (9-11)
9. Mount St. Joseph (5-15) - eliminated
10. Defiance (1-19) - eliminated
