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Tuesday, March 15
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Tuesday Trip to Omaha on Tap for Cats
Mar 14, 2022 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State takes its four-game winning streak to Omaha Tuesday night, as the Wildcats take on the Omaha Mavericks at Tal Anderson Field for a 6 p.m. midweek tilt.
K-State (7-7) completed a 4-0 week that included a home victory over Nebraska and a three-game sweep of Central Connecticut State over the weekend.
The Wildcats will send right-hander Griffin Hassall to the hill for his second straight midweek start. Hassall will make his 12th career start after he earned the win against the Cornhuskers last Tuesday, throwing four innings of one-hit ball with five strikeouts.
The Cats and Mavericks (5-10) will meet for the first time since 2019, while K-State owns a 14-2 edge in the all-time series. K-State swept the home-and-home series in 2019 and has won the last five meetings overall.
Tuesday's game can be streamed at OMavs.com with radio coverage on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM). Live streaming audio is also available at K-StateSports.com/watch and on the K-State Sports app.
GAME #15
K-STATE (7-7) at OMAHA (5-9)
Tuesday, March 15 // 6 p.m. // Tal Anderson Field (1,500) // Omaha, Neb.
Projected Starters: RHP Griffin Hassall (1-2, 2.38 ERA) vs. RHP Jackson Gordon (0-1, 4.05 ERA)
Watch: OMavs.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State makes a Tuesday trip to Omaha to take on the Omaha Mavericks at Tal Anderson Field at 6 p.m. ... The Wildcats finished a 4-0 week after a home sweep of Central Connecticut State over the weekend ... Winning seven of their last nine games, the Cats have climbed back to .500 after beginning the season 0-5 ... In the series with the Blue Devils, K-State won the opener on Saturday 6-3 before sweeping a Sunday doubleheader with scores of 5-3 and 5-2, respectively ... Cole Johnson and Dominic Johnson each hit .500 (6-for-12) to pace the K-State offense ... Dominic Johnson homered twice in the series while Cole Johnson hit his first home run of the year Sunday as part of a career-high four-hit day ... In total, the Wildcats launched six home runs in three games and have homered in seven straight contests overall ... Jeff Heinrich, Justin Mitchell and Josh Nicoloff also homered over the weekend ... On the mound, Blake Adams turned in his third straight quality start Saturday after six innings and two earned runs allowed ... Adams struck out seven and has reached at least seven strikeouts in all four outings this year ... Connor McCullough picked up his second win of the year after his six inning of work Sunday, scattering six hits with three runs against him ... In three games, the K-State bullpen went 2-0 and 2-for-2 in save opportunities while posting a 1.64 ERA (2 ER, 11 IP) ... Blake Corsentino and German Fajardo each picked up the first saves of their respective careers while Landry Jurecka and Ty Ruhl picked up their first victories.
SCOUTING OMAHA
Omaha has won two of its last three games after trading walk-off wins with in-state rival Nebraska Sunday and Monday in a home-and-home series ... UNO began the season 2-8 and currently sit at 5-10 ... Earlier this season, UNO picked up a midweek road victory over No. 21 UCLA 9-4 ... The Mavs' offense is led by Mike Boeve who owns a .411 average with a team-leading nine doubles, three homers and four stolen bases ... Devin Hurdle has two homers and leads the team with 16 runs batted in ... Joey Machado leads his squad in ERA at 1.33 in five appearances with one start (3 ER, 20.1 IP).
INSIDE THE SERIES
K-State leads the all-time series with Omaha 14-2, dating back to 1976 ... Tuesday's meeting will be the first since 2019 after COVID-19 impacted the team's schedules each of the last two years ... The Wildcats and Mavericks had met for eight straight seasons prior to 2020 (2012-19) ... K-State has won each of the last five meetings and seven of the last eight overall ... The Cats are 3-1 on the road in the series, winning in 2018 (6-5 in 11 innings) and in 2019 (9-2) ... All-time, K-State is 87-43 against teams from The Summit League.
THE IDES OF MARCH
After a 1-5 February, K-State has won six of eight games in the month of March and is on a season-long four-game winning streak after sweeping Central Connecticut State ... The Wildcat offense is hitting at a .342 clip in the month and averaging 6.9 runs a game with 12 hits a game ... In February, the Cats hit just .223 as a team with 3.5 runs per game on 7.5 hits a contest ... Additionally, K-State is hitting .100 points higher with two outs in March than it did in February (.333 to .233) ... Seven Cats are hitting north of .300 in the month of March, with three over the .420 mark ... Dominic Johnson has a team-leading .457 batting average while Cole Johnson is hitting .438 and Kaelen Culpepper sits at .421 ... Dominic Johnson and Josh Nicoloff have both homered twice over this month, as K-State has 10 homers in that stretch compared to three last month.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
K-State's outfield duo of Dominic Johnson and Cole Johnson spearheaded the Wildcat offense in its sweep of Central Connecticut State last weekend ... Each player hit a team-high .500, going 6-for-12 ... Cole Johnson turned in K-State's first four-hit effort of the season in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader, including a go-ahead solo homer, and finished the weekend with three extra-base hits ... Dominic Johnson homered twice in the series with the Blue Devils, swiped two bases and scored four times ... Both are riding career-long hitting streaks, as Dominic Johnson has hit safely in nine straight games - seven of which are multi-hit efforts ... Cole Johnson has recorded a hit in his last seven outings, with two three-hit games in addition to his four-hit day Sunday.
THE DOMINATOR
Dominic Johnson, who has hit leadoff and started in left field every game this season for the Wildcats, leads the team in average, on-base percentage, doubles, extra-base hits, stolen bases and runs batted in ... The Oklahoma State transfer has registered multiple hits in each of his last five games and is the team leader with nine multi-hit games and four multi-RBI efforts ... Over his nine-game hitting streak, the sophomore is hitting .450 (18-40) with four doubles, two home runs, nine RBI and seven runs scored ... He has been held hitless in just one game this season (0-for-4 at CSU Bakersfield on February 26) ... Johnson also leads the team in hitting with runners in scoring position at .615 (8-for-13) and is tied for the team lead with six two-out RBI.
STREAKS FOR WEEKS
Four Wildcats are currently riding hitting streaks of at least six games, including Dominic Johnson (9), Josh Nicoloff (8), Cole Johnson (7) and Justin Mitchell (6) ... Dominic Johnson and Nicoloff are also on nine-game on-base streaks ... As a team, K-State has homered in seven straight games and in nine of its last 11 overall after not hitting a home run in the season's' first three games at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown in Arlington, Texas.
TWO-HIT MITCH
K-State senior catcher Justin Mitchell has hit safely in six straight games and in 11 of his last 12 games overall ... Mitchell has produced six two-hit games this season, with five coming over his last nine outings ... During his six-game hitting streak, Mitchell is 9-for-20 (.450) with three doubles, a home run and three RBI ... Mitchell belted his second home run of the year Sunday against Central Connecticut State, equaling his career total over four years at Oklahoma ... Mitchell, voted one of four team captains before the season, posted a slash line of .261/.352/.348 with 15 doubles and two home runs in four seasons with the Sooners.
K-State (7-7) completed a 4-0 week that included a home victory over Nebraska and a three-game sweep of Central Connecticut State over the weekend.
The Wildcats will send right-hander Griffin Hassall to the hill for his second straight midweek start. Hassall will make his 12th career start after he earned the win against the Cornhuskers last Tuesday, throwing four innings of one-hit ball with five strikeouts.
The Cats and Mavericks (5-10) will meet for the first time since 2019, while K-State owns a 14-2 edge in the all-time series. K-State swept the home-and-home series in 2019 and has won the last five meetings overall.
Tuesday's game can be streamed at OMavs.com with radio coverage on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM). Live streaming audio is also available at K-StateSports.com/watch and on the K-State Sports app.
GAME #15
K-STATE (7-7) at OMAHA (5-9)
Tuesday, March 15 // 6 p.m. // Tal Anderson Field (1,500) // Omaha, Neb.
Projected Starters: RHP Griffin Hassall (1-2, 2.38 ERA) vs. RHP Jackson Gordon (0-1, 4.05 ERA)
Watch: OMavs.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/Watch // 1350KMAN.com
Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State makes a Tuesday trip to Omaha to take on the Omaha Mavericks at Tal Anderson Field at 6 p.m. ... The Wildcats finished a 4-0 week after a home sweep of Central Connecticut State over the weekend ... Winning seven of their last nine games, the Cats have climbed back to .500 after beginning the season 0-5 ... In the series with the Blue Devils, K-State won the opener on Saturday 6-3 before sweeping a Sunday doubleheader with scores of 5-3 and 5-2, respectively ... Cole Johnson and Dominic Johnson each hit .500 (6-for-12) to pace the K-State offense ... Dominic Johnson homered twice in the series while Cole Johnson hit his first home run of the year Sunday as part of a career-high four-hit day ... In total, the Wildcats launched six home runs in three games and have homered in seven straight contests overall ... Jeff Heinrich, Justin Mitchell and Josh Nicoloff also homered over the weekend ... On the mound, Blake Adams turned in his third straight quality start Saturday after six innings and two earned runs allowed ... Adams struck out seven and has reached at least seven strikeouts in all four outings this year ... Connor McCullough picked up his second win of the year after his six inning of work Sunday, scattering six hits with three runs against him ... In three games, the K-State bullpen went 2-0 and 2-for-2 in save opportunities while posting a 1.64 ERA (2 ER, 11 IP) ... Blake Corsentino and German Fajardo each picked up the first saves of their respective careers while Landry Jurecka and Ty Ruhl picked up their first victories.
SCOUTING OMAHA
Omaha has won two of its last three games after trading walk-off wins with in-state rival Nebraska Sunday and Monday in a home-and-home series ... UNO began the season 2-8 and currently sit at 5-10 ... Earlier this season, UNO picked up a midweek road victory over No. 21 UCLA 9-4 ... The Mavs' offense is led by Mike Boeve who owns a .411 average with a team-leading nine doubles, three homers and four stolen bases ... Devin Hurdle has two homers and leads the team with 16 runs batted in ... Joey Machado leads his squad in ERA at 1.33 in five appearances with one start (3 ER, 20.1 IP).
INSIDE THE SERIES
K-State leads the all-time series with Omaha 14-2, dating back to 1976 ... Tuesday's meeting will be the first since 2019 after COVID-19 impacted the team's schedules each of the last two years ... The Wildcats and Mavericks had met for eight straight seasons prior to 2020 (2012-19) ... K-State has won each of the last five meetings and seven of the last eight overall ... The Cats are 3-1 on the road in the series, winning in 2018 (6-5 in 11 innings) and in 2019 (9-2) ... All-time, K-State is 87-43 against teams from The Summit League.
THE IDES OF MARCH
After a 1-5 February, K-State has won six of eight games in the month of March and is on a season-long four-game winning streak after sweeping Central Connecticut State ... The Wildcat offense is hitting at a .342 clip in the month and averaging 6.9 runs a game with 12 hits a game ... In February, the Cats hit just .223 as a team with 3.5 runs per game on 7.5 hits a contest ... Additionally, K-State is hitting .100 points higher with two outs in March than it did in February (.333 to .233) ... Seven Cats are hitting north of .300 in the month of March, with three over the .420 mark ... Dominic Johnson has a team-leading .457 batting average while Cole Johnson is hitting .438 and Kaelen Culpepper sits at .421 ... Dominic Johnson and Josh Nicoloff have both homered twice over this month, as K-State has 10 homers in that stretch compared to three last month.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
K-State's outfield duo of Dominic Johnson and Cole Johnson spearheaded the Wildcat offense in its sweep of Central Connecticut State last weekend ... Each player hit a team-high .500, going 6-for-12 ... Cole Johnson turned in K-State's first four-hit effort of the season in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader, including a go-ahead solo homer, and finished the weekend with three extra-base hits ... Dominic Johnson homered twice in the series with the Blue Devils, swiped two bases and scored four times ... Both are riding career-long hitting streaks, as Dominic Johnson has hit safely in nine straight games - seven of which are multi-hit efforts ... Cole Johnson has recorded a hit in his last seven outings, with two three-hit games in addition to his four-hit day Sunday.
THE DOMINATOR
Dominic Johnson, who has hit leadoff and started in left field every game this season for the Wildcats, leads the team in average, on-base percentage, doubles, extra-base hits, stolen bases and runs batted in ... The Oklahoma State transfer has registered multiple hits in each of his last five games and is the team leader with nine multi-hit games and four multi-RBI efforts ... Over his nine-game hitting streak, the sophomore is hitting .450 (18-40) with four doubles, two home runs, nine RBI and seven runs scored ... He has been held hitless in just one game this season (0-for-4 at CSU Bakersfield on February 26) ... Johnson also leads the team in hitting with runners in scoring position at .615 (8-for-13) and is tied for the team lead with six two-out RBI.
STREAKS FOR WEEKS
Four Wildcats are currently riding hitting streaks of at least six games, including Dominic Johnson (9), Josh Nicoloff (8), Cole Johnson (7) and Justin Mitchell (6) ... Dominic Johnson and Nicoloff are also on nine-game on-base streaks ... As a team, K-State has homered in seven straight games and in nine of its last 11 overall after not hitting a home run in the season's' first three games at the State Farm College Baseball Showdown in Arlington, Texas.
TWO-HIT MITCH
K-State senior catcher Justin Mitchell has hit safely in six straight games and in 11 of his last 12 games overall ... Mitchell has produced six two-hit games this season, with five coming over his last nine outings ... During his six-game hitting streak, Mitchell is 9-for-20 (.450) with three doubles, a home run and three RBI ... Mitchell belted his second home run of the year Sunday against Central Connecticut State, equaling his career total over four years at Oklahoma ... Mitchell, voted one of four team captains before the season, posted a slash line of .261/.352/.348 with 15 doubles and two home runs in four seasons with the Sooners.
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