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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team continues their 2024 spring trip on Wednesday afternoon as they take on Moravian at 1 PM.

ROSE-HULMAN GAME NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman baseball continues their eight game spring trip with four games in Orlando in the next four days.
* The Fightin' Engineers finished their season opening series with Emory with a 1-2 overall record. Rose-Hulman won the first game on Saturday by a score of 11-9, but they fell 11-6 and 16-4 in the final two games.
* Rose-Hulman picked up a win in the first game of their RussMatt invitational on Tuesday with a 6-5 comeback win over Dubuque.
* The Fightin' Engineers will continue their Southern trip in Orlando, Florida with games in the 2024 RussMatt Invitational against Grove City (DH on Mar. 1) and Houghton (Mar. 2).
* Rose-Hulman opens their third season under head coach Adam Rosen as the Fightin' Engineers look to bounce back from a 23-21 season in 2023 that included a 13-9 record in the HCAC.
* Connor O'Connell leads the team in batting this year with a .438 batting average and 7 hits. He also recorded the team's only triple and has the most extra base hits on the team with 2.
* Kade Kline has a .500 on-base percentage this season, and he has ridden his 2-home run and 5 RBI game in the season opener to a team-best .714 slugging percentage.
* Josh Erpenbeck completed the Rose-Hulman comeback on Tuesday with a two-out, two-RBI double in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Fightin' Engineers their first and last lead of the game.
* On the mound, the Fightin' Engineers have ridden their bullpen as no starter has made it out of the fifth inning thus far this season.
* Jonathan Oliger is one of four pitchers with a 0.000 ERA this season, and the closer leads the team with a 0.182 opponent batting average this year in his two saves.
*Rose-Hulman was selected fourth overall in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason poll. The Fightin' Engineers received 62 poll points.
* After their spring trip, the Fightin' Engineers return to action with a three-game series against Calvin on March 15 and 16.

DUBUQUE NOTES:
* Moravian enters Wednesday's game at 3-0 overall to open the 2024 season.
* The Greyhounds picked up a win over Kean (3-2) in the season opener, and they swept FDU-Florham in a doubleheader with wins of 10-2 and 10-9.
* Moravian is set to compete in the RussMatt Invitational with nine games over the next six games. After playing Rose-Hulman, the Greyhounds will tkae on Wartburg, Gordon-MA (DH), Marymount-VA (DH), Illinois College, Siena Heights-MI, and Penn State-Abington.
* As a team, the Spartans have struggled at the plate with a slash line of .250 / .423 / .405, but they are averaging 8 runs and 7 hits per game.
* The Greyhounds have been running wild in their first three games with nearly 5 stolen bases per game to start the season.
* Nick Henry leads the Greyhounds this season with 4 hits, 2 doubles, and a home runfor a 1.583 OPS through three games.
* Paul Hamilton leads Moravian in RBIs this season with 5, and he joins Henry as the only two players with home runs on the year.
* David Olsakowski leads the team with 4 stolen bases, and he boasts a very impressive .462 on-base percentage.
* On the mound, the Greyhounds have been up and down through their first three games. They have only allowed 13 runs with 9 of those coming from just two players.
* David Ciaccio is the top starter on the squad after tossing 7 innings with just 5 hits and 1 run allowed.
* Five Greyhounds relief pitchers have a perfect 0.00 ERA this season as they have combined for 7 innings pitched and just 2 hits allowed.
* The entire Greyhounds pitching staff has been very pitch to contact this season as they have only struck out 16 batters in three games.
* Moravian has only made one error through three games to boast an impressive .990 fielding percentage.
* Moravian will return to the field on Thursday as they take on the Wartburg Knights at the Lake Myrtle Complex.

2024 TEAM HITTING LEADERS (Min. 1.5 AB/Game):
BATTING AVERAGE - Connor O'Connell (0.438)
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE - Kade Kline (0.500)
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE - Kade Kline (0.714)
HITS - Connor O'Connell (7)
DOUBLES - Josh Erpenbeck / Ryland Hixon / Connor O'Connell / Peter Rogers (1)
TRIPLES - Connor O'Connell (1)
HOME RUNS - Kade Kline (2)
RUNS - Colton Brown (6)
EXTRA BASE HITS - Kade Kline / Connor O'Connell (2)
RBI - Kade Kline (6)
STOLEN BASES - Colter Couillard-Rodak (4)
WALKS - Colter Couillard-Rodak / Kade Kline (4)
HIT BY PITCHES - Josh Erpenbeck / Kade Kline (1)
LONGEST ACTIVE HIT STREAK - Connor O'Connell / Jonathan Oliger (3 games) 
LONGEST ACTIVE ON-BASE STREAK - Dalton Busboom (31 games)

TEAM PITCHING LEADERS (Min. 0.5 IP/Game)
GAMES - Zacheus Carr / Jonathan Oliger / Tyler Orr (2)
STARTS - Brett Borcherding / Ian Kline / Alec Lewandowski / Michael Yager (1)
INNINGS - Ian Kline (4.2)
WINS - Zacheus Carr / Schuyler Wilcox (1)
ERA - Brad Nardi / Jonathan Oliger (0.00)
WHIP - Jonathan Oliger (1.00)
SAVES - Jonathan Oliger (2)
STRIKEOUTS - Ian Kline / Michael Yager (6)
K/BB - Tyler Orr / Brady Strawmyer (Infinity)
K/9 - Michael Yager (12.46)
BB/9 - Tyler Orr / Brady Strawmyer (0.00)
OBA - Jonathan Oliger (0.182)

SERIES HISTORY:
* This will be the first-ever meeting between the Fightin' Engineers and the Greyhounds.

ROSE-HULMAN CAREER RECORDS:
* Schuyler Wilcox - T-6th in school history with 6 career saves

HCAC STANDINGS / NEXT GAME:
Transylvania - 0-0 (3-0) - Mar. 2 vs. DePauw (DH)
Anderson - 0-0 (4-2) - Mar. 2 vs. Knox (DH)
Earlham - 0-0 (2-1) - Mar. 2 vs. Kalamazoo (DH)
Manchester - 0-0 (1-1) - Mar. 2 vs. Keystone
Hanover - 0-0 (2-2) - Feb. 28 vs. Methodist
Rose-Hulman - 0-0 (2-2) - Feb. 28 vs. Moravian
Franklin - 0-0 (1-2) - Mar. 1 vs. Hope
Mount St. Joseph - 0-0 (1-2) - Mar. 2 vs. Ohio Wesleyan (DH)
Bluffton - 0-0 (0-0) - Mar. 3 vs. Baldwin Wallace
Defiance - 0-0 (0-0) - Mar. 4 vs. Alvernia