The Braves are on a six game winning streak after taking two from Bethel College on Monday afternoon at Alumni Park. In this two games against the Threshers, the Braves had a team batting average of .396. OU scored 14 runs, had a .585 slugging percentage, a .450 on base percentage, and was 4-for-4 in stolen base attempts. The Ottawa pitching staff held the Threshers to a .222 batting average, a 0.54 ERA, and struck out seven.
Ottawa is 19-4 overall, has a record of 4-0 in the KCAC, and is 7-3 on the road this season. In 23 games, the Braves have scored 147 runs, have a .322 batting average, a .398 on base percentage, a .491 slugging percentage, and OU has hit 18 home runs.
Katie Enneking leads OU in batting average (.419) and
Allison Kearney and
Madison Bunfill lead the Braves in RBI (23).
Ashlynn Mercer leads Ottawa in ERA (2.99) and strike outs (47).
Kansas Wesleyan University leads the series, 41-30, but the Braves have won five straight games against the Coyotes. OU took the double header last season against KWU 2-1 in nine innings in game one and 8-0 in six innings in game two on April 21, 2022 at Alumni Park. The first ever meeting between the two teams happened in 1996. Kansas Wesleyan University won that game. The Coyotes won the first nine meetings between the two teams. Ottawa won its first game against KWU in the KCAC Round Robin Tournament in Ottawa on April 3, 1998. OU won the game, 8-0. The Braves have won three straight games against the Coyotes in Salina.
Kansas Wesleyan University is 7-14 overall, 2-2 in the KCAC, are on a two game losing streak, and are 6-7 at home this season. Those two losses were last Saturday in Bartlesville, Okla. against Oklahoma Wesleyan University, 8-6, 3-1.
Through 21 games this season, the Coyotes have scored 69 runs, have a .233 batting average, a .325 on base percentage, a .364, and have hit 13 home runs.
Josie Buhr leads the team in batting average (.349), Mia Hernandez is KWU's leader in RBI (14), and Miranda Fogal is the team's leader in ERA (2.23) and strike outs (68).
