Saturday, April 19, 2014

Opposition Research - Emporia State


Opposition Research - Emporia State

Emporia State Hornets (26-14, 19-13 MIAA) 
vs. 
Northwest Missouri Bearcats (21-17, 15-14 MIAA)
Friday, April 18 at 2:00 p.m. • Glennen Field/Trusler Sports Complex • Emporia, Kan.
Saturday, April 19 at 1:00 p.m. • Glennen Field/Trusler Sports Complex • Emporia, Kan.
Radio: KFFX 14.9FM (First Game Saturday only) Audio Webcast: www.kvoe.com (First Game Saturday only)
Series Record: ESU leads 50-32  Last Meeting: at ESU 10, NWMSU 6 (4/14/13)
Up Next: vs. Newman • Tuesday, April 22 at 5:00 p.m.
Glennen Field/Trusler Sports Complex • Emporia, Kan.
Live StatsComplete Notes in pdf


 
LAST HOME SERIES
Emporia State returns to the Trusler Sports Complex for their final MIAA regular season series of the season against Northwest Missouri. The Hornets are battling for a top four finish and home field in the MIAA Tournament's Opening
Round. They enter this series tied for fourth with Southwest Baptist with both teams one game in front of Neb.-Kearney.

LAST AT BAT
Dean Long had the game winning RBI and started the game ending double play for Emporia State in a 7-6 win over Washburn on Tuesday in Topeka. With the score tied Jordan Hodges pinch hit to lead off the top of the ninth for Emporia State and singled up the middle.  Levi Parker sacrificed him to second and Long drove him home with a single to left for a 7-6 lead. Justin Harris went three for four with four RBI for the Hornets while Parker went one for three with two runs scored.  Brenton Higgins faced the minimum over the last 2.0 innings to pick up the win, allowing no hits with a walk and a strikeout.
 
ABOUT THE HORNETS    
Emporia State is 26-14 overall and 19-13 in the MIAA. The Hornets have won seven straight games and scored at least ten runs in six of them. As a team they are batting .302, have a 4.68 ERA and a .961 team fielding percentage. 

SCOUTING THE BEARCATS 
Northwest Missouri is 21-17 on the year and 15-14 in the MIAA. They lead the MIAA with a .967 fielding percentage but are ninth in the MIAA with a 5.24 team ERA and a .289 team batting average.

THE SERIES 
Friday's first game will be the 84th meeting between the two teams with Emporia State holding a 50-32 overall advantage. The Hornets have won 20 of the last 23 meetings between the two teams.

LAST TIME VS. NWMSU  
Emporia State pounded out 18 hits including 12 for extra bases in a 10-6 series clinching win over Northwest Missouri. Jordan Slade was four of five with two RBI, three runs, two triples and a double.  Like Slade, Eric Dawson was a homer short of the cycle going four for five with an RBI, two doubles and a triple.  Aaron Rea went two for five with three RBI, a run scored and a home run. Garrett Bane went 3.1 innings and allowed one run on no hits with six strike outs to pick up the win.

ESU Head Coach Bob Fornelli -

Bob Fornelli is in his tenth year as head coach at Emporia State and has won nearly 700 games entering his 17th year of coaching at the NCAA Division II level.

The Emporia State alum is 377-153 as he begins his tenth year with the Hornets and 683-266 overall in 16 years as a head coach at the four year level.

He has re-established Emporia State as a baseball power in the Midwest with eight trips to the NCAA Tournament, two World Series appearances and a national runner-up finish in his nine years with the Hornets.

Last season the Hornets advanced to the MIAA Tournament, however missed out on a trip to the NCAA Tournament for the first time under Fornelli.

Emporia State was 43-12 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the eighth straight year

in 2011.
The Hornets followed the national runner-up finish with a 42-16 in 2010 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh straight year.

In 2009 the Hornets made their deepest run in the NCAA tournament ever, making the national championship game in Cary, N.C. before falling to Lynn 2-1. The Hornets won their second straight MIAA Championship and won their second NCAA Regional Championship. Conner Crumbliss earned All-American honors and was named the MIAA Player of the Year.

In 2008 Fornelli had three players earn All-American honors and Keith Hernandez was named the National Player of the Year. In 2007 the Hornets advanced to the NCAA Central Regional by defeating Central Missouri to win the MIAA post-season tournament.

The Hornets finished the 2006 campaign by winning the MIAA Regular Season Championship and NCAA Central Region Championship on their way to Emporia State University's first NCAA Division II World Series appearance. Fornelli had nine players selected to the All-MIAA teams in 2006 which included 1st Team All-American and NCAA Division II "Pitcher of the Year" Gabe Medina. Medina along with catcher John Martin were selected in the 15th and 24th rounds of the 2006 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Prior to coming to Emporia State, he coached for seven years at Ft. Hays State and averaged 44 wins year during his time with the Tigers.

Fornelli, a 1991 graduate of ESU, spent seven years at FHSU where he compiled a 306-113 record. In his last year with the Tigers, they won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season and postseason tournament titles. They also hosted the NCAA Division II West Region tournament. Ft. Hays ended the season ranked 15th in D-II, the sixth year Fornelli had the Tigers in the final Top 30 poll. He is the winningest coach in FHSU history and led the Tigers to the RMAC championship four times in his seven years. Fornelli led FHSU to the NCAA Division II national championship game in 2000 and was in the NCAA regional tournament six times. Eight of Fornelli’s players have been selected in the Major League Baseball draft, including current Florida Marlin relief pitcher Nate Field.

Prior to his time in Hays, Fornelli was the pitching coach at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kan., from 1991 until 1996. During his tenure the Grizzlies were 195-86 and finished third in the NJCAA World Series in 1994.


2014 ESU Statistics -


Player  avg gp-gs ab 2b 3b hr rbi tb slg% bb hbp so gdp ob% sf sh sb-att po fld% 
Jacobs,Price  .383 34-32 120 22 46 19 67 .558 18 .423 5-6 32 1.000 
Cornejo,Toby  .341 40-40 135 30 46 15 30 66 .489 20 14 .427 3-5 69 87 13 .923 
Harris,Justin  .340 39-39 150 37 51 33 71 .473 29 .379 31-38 73 .987 
Gile,Aaron  .333 30-28 90 24 30 21 57 .633 14 18 .435 3-4 192 11 .971 
Parker,Levi  .329 40-40 152 41 50 21 69 .454 23 25 .430 25-28 75 103 .957 
Hanna,Wade  .318 36-34 110 25 35 22 49 .445 11 18 .419 9-10 47 .963 
Hodges,Jordan  .298 27-18 57 12 17 21 .368 11 10 .420 0-1 27 .818 
Long,Dean  .296 40-39 135 34 40 10 40 83 .615 28 32 .432 10-14 119 49 .949 
Bell,Tory  .242 35-29 91 16 22 24 46 .505 19 .343 0-0 105 1.000 
Stucky,Zach  .214 29-16 56 15 12 18 .321 12 12 .362 2-2 1.000 
Schultz,Todd  .182 30-19 55 10 10 15 .273 10 .258 1-1 140 14 .981 
Fischer,Mason  .149 24-16 47 10 13 .277 12 10 .359 4-8 32 1.000 
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Sager,Cory  1.000 5-0 1.000 .500 0-0 1.000 
Lorenzen,Daniel  .400 11-1 10 .700 .500 0-0 1.000 
x-Richards,David  .333 9-6 24 11 .458 .370 1-2 1.000 
Beebe,Tyler  .100 16-3 10 .100 .250 0-1 37 .976 
Piecukonis,Dalton  .000 14-0 11 .000 .214 1-1 .000 
Huth,Ryan  .000 5-0 .000 .200 0-0 1.000 
Higgins,Brenton  .000 18-0 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
McEwin,Dylan  .000 14-0 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
Miller,Jarrod  .000 9-9 .000 .000 0-0 11 .923 
Bane,Garrett  .000 8-3 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
Hinkley,Matt  .000 14-0 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
Talkington,Shawn  .000 11-9 .000 .000 0-0 14 1.000 
Shaffer,Kevin  .000 10-6 .000 .000 0-0 10 .933 
Sjolander,Connor  .000 4-0 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
Hendry,Travis  .000 11-4 .000 .000 0-0 1.000 
McKaskie,Dakota  .000 9-9 .000 .000 0-0 15 .941 
McDaniel,Parker  .000 8-0 .000 .000 0-0 .000 
Totals  .302 40-40 1258 281 380 71 15 38 251 595 .473 161 47 230 25 .398 11 30 95-121 957 391 54 .961 
Opponents  .283 40-40 1277 195 361 57 35 180 537 .421 96 38 274 16 .349 31 19-33 932 416 70 .951 

LOB - Team (294), Opp (298). DPs turned - Team (23), Opp (30). CI - Team (1), Schultz,T. 1. IBB - Team (8), Long,D. 5, Hodges,J. 2, Cornejo,T. 1. Picked off - Parker,L. 2, Gile,A. 1, Harris,J. 1.


Player  era w-l app-gs cg sho sv ip er bb so 2b 3b hr ab b/avg wp hbp bk sfa sha 
Higgins,Brenton  1.91 4-1 18-0 0/0 33.0 26 10 38 121 .215 
Miller,Jarrod  3.31 4-4 9-9 0/1 49.0 59 21 18 12 41 192 .307 
Hendry,Travis  3.82 1-0 11-4 0/0 30.2 31 14 13 27 116 .267 
Talkington,Shawn  3.86 5-2 9-9 0/1 51.1 51 24 22 49 10 190 .268 
Bane,Garrett  4.34 3-1 8-3 0/0 18.2 26 13 12 12 83 .313 
McKaskie,Dakota  4.91 5-2 9-9 0/0 51.1 61 39 28 31 14 216 .282 
McEwin,Dylan  4.97 2-0 14-0 0/0 12.2 13 10 12 55 .236 
Hinkley,Matt  5.40 1-1 14-0 0/1 18.1 22 12 11 17 73 .301 
Shaffer,Kevin  6.08 1-2 10-6 0/0 37.0 47 28 25 16 29 10 154 .305 
Sager,Cory  6.35 0-0 4-0 0/1 5.2 24 .292 
McDaniel,Parker  15.63 0-0 8-0 0/0 6.1 11 11 10 25 .240 
Sjolander,Connor  19.80 0-1 4-0 0/1 5.0 12 12 11 28 .429 
Totals  4.68 26-14 40-40 2/2 319.0 361 195 166 96 274 57 35 1277 .283 12 38 31 
Opponents  6.92 14-26 40-40 2/1 310.2 380 281 239 161 230 71 15 38 1258 .302 38 47 11 30 

PB - Team (6), Bell,T. 3, Schultz,T. 2, Beebe,T. 1, Opp (13). Pickoffs - Team (5), Shaffer,K. 3, Talkington,S 2, Opp (4). SBA/ATT - Schultz,T. (8-14), Bell,T. (5-9), Beebe,T. (5-7), Miller,J. (4-7), Hendry,T. (2-4), Talkington,S (2-4), McEwin,D. (1-3), McDaniel,P. (3-3), Shaffer,K. (2-3), McKaskie,D. (0-2), Higgins,B. (2-2), Bane,G. (1-2), Sager,C. (1-2), Hinkley,M. (1-1).


Northwest Missouri State University -

Player  avg gp-gs ab 2b 3b hr rbi tb slg% bb hbp so gdp ob% sf sh sb-att po fld% 
Pablo,Nikko  .417 5-4 12 .583 .500 1-1 11 14 1.000 
Singleton,Alex  .400 13-2 10 .400 .571 0-0 1.000 
Pomatto,Jon  .336 40-40 131 43 44 22 60 .458 26 24 .447 5-6 91 .970 
Johnson,Paul  .333 32-32 114 27 38 10 10 55 .482 15 10 .449 5-9 49 64 10 .919 
Ferreira,Zack  .306 40-39 134 16 41 19 50 .373 14 23 .380 0-3 13 60 .961 
Abernathy,Ryan  .291 40-40 148 31 43 10 24 56 .378 18 18 .389 7-9 93 .942 
McGlauflin,Eric  .282 36-36 131 24 37 30 57 .435 15 20 .370 4-4 11 1.000 
Huske,Brandon  .269 38-38 145 23 39 24 49 .338 21 14 .374 1-1 52 115 .965 
Meyer,Derek  .265 16-11 34 12 .353 .350 1-1 46 1.000 
Wulff,Austin  .261 39-38 134 28 35 10 28 60 .448 13 24 .353 2-3 46 .941 
Garber,Steven  .259 37-36 116 19 30 22 39 .336 15 28 .358 0-0 291 31 .991 
Hardegree,Blake  .253 32-29 79 12 20 15 26 .329 21 .326 10 1-1 148 10 .988 
Holler,James  .211 12-4 19 .211 .375 0-1 36 .950 
Fort,Garrett  .182 21-9 33 10 .242 10 .300 1-1 14 19 .943 
Wilkinson,Luke  .167 10-2 12 .667 .286 0-0 1.000 
Douglas,Zachary  .000 6-0 .000 .000 0-0 13 .929 
Totals  .285 40-40 1254 249 357 76 16 217 495 .395 162 47 210 16 .383 13 33 28-40 944 405 44 .968 
Opponents  .296 40-40 1235 218 366 53 17 193 484 .392 145 35 204 22 .382 13 39 49-54 955 410 64 .955 

LOB - Team (305), Opp (305). DPs turned - Team (29), Opp (26). IBB - Team (1), Wulff,Austin 1, Opp (4). Picked off - Abernathy,Ry 4.


Player  era w-l app-gs cg sho sv ip er bb so 2b 3b hr ab b/avg wp hbp bk sfa sha 
Brady,Patrick  0.00 0-0 3-0 0/0 4.0 13 .154 
Smith,Tanner  3.46 0-0 11-0 0/0 13.0 10 12 11 44 .227 
Pomatto,Jon  3.86 0-1 5-0 0/0 4.2 14 .214 
Warren,Austin  3.96 2-4 9-9 0/0 50.0 59 30 22 14 21 194 .304 10 
Schmiedt,Brian  3.97 2-1 13-0 0/0 11.1 15 12 47 .319 
Fox, Ryker  4.02 6-2 11-10 0/0 62.2 60 32 28 33 44 11 234 .256 
Singleton,Alex  4.50 0-0 2-0 0/0 2.0 .250 
Reutter,Blane  4.55 3-1 15-0 0/0 27.2 33 17 14 16 111 .297 
Perry,Daulton  4.76 2-0 14-0 0/0 17.0 17 11 65 .262 
Trout,Andrew  5.02 1-0 12-1 0/0 14.1 13 12 13 15 53 .245 
Pearcy,Hondo  5.77 3-3 10-8 0/0 43.2 58 30 28 11 22 10 175 .331 
Pablo,Nikko  7.64 1-1 9-2 0/0 17.2 26 16 15 14 76 .342 
Henrichs,Rob  8.20 0-3 11-2 0/0 18.2 35 24 17 15 90 .389 
Klocko,Kole  8.75 1-3 10-8 0/0 23.2 26 24 23 19 19 94 .277 
Smith,Carson  13.50 0-0 1-0 0/0 0.2 .500 
Bruch,Taylor  14.73 0-0 4-0 0/0 3.2 15 .400 
Totals  5.26 21-19 40-40 0/0 314.2 366 218 184 145 204 53 17 1235 .296 24 35 13 39 
Opponents  5.46 19-21 40-40 3/3 318.1 357 249 193 162 210 76 16 1254 .285 34 47 13 33 

PB - Team (11), Hardegree,Bl 7, Meyer,Derek 4, Opp (8). Pickoffs - Team (10), Pearcy,Hondo 3, Fox, Ryker 2, Warren,Austi 2, Trout,Andrew 1, Perry,Daulto 1, Klocko,Kole 1, Opp (1). SBA/ATT - Hardegree,Bl (33-35), Meyer,Derek (13-14), Klocko,Kole (12-12), Pearcy,Hondo (7-7), Reutter,Blan (5-6), Trout,Andrew (5-5), Schmiedt,Bri (4-4), Warren,Austi (3-4), Douglas,Zach (3-3), Henrichs,Rob (3-3), Bruch,Taylor (2-3), Perry,Daulto (3-3), Pablo,Nikko (2-2), Fox, Ryker (1-2), Smith,Tanner (0-1), Smith,Carson (1-1), Pomatto,Jon (1-1).


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