Opposition Research - Quincy University

Opposition Research - Quincy University

Maryville, Mo. - Your Northwest Missouri State Bearcats baseball team will hit the road for a single 9-inning contest against Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 3pm. Quincy University is 9-3 entering the match-up having played all but 2 games on the road or neutral sites. Quincy has yet to play a conference game. Quincy started their season much later than Northwest with their opening game being on February 26, 2016.

Entering the 2016 season, Quincy was pre-season pick #1 in their respective division of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (West Division) with 1 vote more than second place Drury University. Quincy was ranked #12 in the nation by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association entering the season. Quincy was also ranked #22 by College Baseball newspaper heading into the 2016 season. 

Quincy is coming off a terrific season in 2015 having advanced all the way to the NCAA Midwest Regional. Quincy earned their fourth 40-win season in their history in 2015 and finished with a record of 40-17. Quincy finished second in the GLVC Championship Tournament in 2015. 

Quincy Head Coach Josh Rabe - Josh Rabe is entering his sixth season as head coach of Quincy University's baseball program. Rabe was named the GLVC Coach of the Year after the 2015 season. Rabe was a two-time All American at Quincy University and played between 1998-2000

2016 Quincy Statistics - 

##	Player	avg	gp-gs	ab	r	h	2b	3b	hr	rbi	tb	slg%	bb	hbp	so	gdp	ob%	sf	sh	sb	sba	po	a	e	fld%
9	Jacob, David	.447	12-12	47	13	21	2	0	1	9	26	.553	6	1	4	0	.509	1	0	1	1	90	3	0	1.000
14	Snyder, Ryan	.432	12-12	44	15	19	7	2	4	23	42	.955	6	1	5	1	.500	1	0	2	3	34	0	2	.944
8	Blechle, Justin	.432	12-12	37	16	16	6	1	4	14	36	.973	7	2	3	0	.532	1	0	1	2	17	5	4	.846
35	Hayes, David	.406	10-9	32	7	13	1	0	0	6	14	.438	2	3	7	1	.486	0	0	0	0	55	6	0	1.000
12	Walters, Jake	.400	11-11	40	17	16	2	1	2	12	26	.650	5	4	9	0	.510	0	0	1	1	14	21	3	.921
7	Miles, Dominic	.373	12-12	51	19	19	4	0	5	20	38	.745	6	0	8	0	.439	0	0	3	4	26	1	0	1.000
45	Meyer, JP	.300	10-7	30	8	9	2	0	2	9	17	.567	0	1	10	0	.323	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1.000
34	Wehde, Troy	.267	5-4	15	2	4	0	0	0	2	4	.267	0	0	4	0	.267	0	0	0	0	21	1	1	.957
2	Martinez, Brynn	.255	11-11	47	13	12	2	0	0	4	14	.298	3	1	6	0	.314	0	1	3	3	17	30	5	.904
3	Stine, Shea	.200	5-4	15	1	3	1	0	0	3	4	.267	1	0	4	0	.235	1	0	0	0	3	7	2	.833
5	Purcell, Chandler	.182	4-2	11	1	2	1	0	0	2	3	.273	0	0	2	0	.182	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
25	Hilmes, Matt	.182	4-3	11	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	.182	2	0	2	0	.308	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000
31	Tamaccio, TJ	.154	7-6	26	1	4	0	0	0	1	4	.154	0	0	4	0	.154	0	0	0	0	4	6	3	.769
17	Ward, Chris	.000	3-3	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	1	0	7	0	.091	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	1.000
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11	Keller, Bobby	.000	2-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
20	Snyder, Nolan	.000	3-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.000
41	Diaz, Drew	.000	1-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	1	0	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
1	Naughton, Carter	.000	1-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000
16	Ormond, Tyler	.000	1-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000
44	Gainer, Jack	.000	2-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.000
	Totals	.333	12-12	421	114	140	28	4	18	106	230	.546	39	14	76	2	.404	4	1	11	15	293	93	22	.946
	Opponents	.260	12-12	385	56	100	16	2	6	46	138	.358	36	11	75	2	.336	6	6	8	11	288	93	18	.955

##	Player	era	w-l	app-gs	cg	sho	sv	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	2b	3b	hr	ab	b/avg	wp	hbp	bk	sfa	sha
32	Peterson, Jake	1.23	2-1	3-3	1	1-0	0	22.0	20	6	3	3	20	3	0	0	89	.225	0	0	0	0	0
22	Crawford, Cole	1.80	1-1	5-0	0	0-0	0	5.0	4	1	1	3	3	0	0	0	17	.235	3	0	0	0	1
10	Niebrugge, Mark	3.60	1-1	3-2	0	0-0	0	15.0	15	6	6	6	5	1	0	0	57	.263	0	0	0	1	2
39	Best, Brock	3.60	1-0	2-1	0	0-0	0	5.0	8	2	2	0	6	0	0	0	22	.364	1	0	0	0	0
15	Shull, Braden	4.00	2-0	2-2	0	0-0	0	9.0	7	4	4	7	8	0	0	2	33	.212	3	2	0	0	0
46	Hirsch, Karl	4.50	1-0	6-0	0	0-0	0	6.0	6	5	3	2	7	1	0	0	25	.240	3	1	0	0	0
27	Ley, Brandon	4.70	0-0	5-0	0	0-0	0	7.2	9	4	4	2	4	3	0	1	27	.333	0	2	0	3	2
30	Spraker, Graham	7.71	1-0	3-3	0	0-0	0	14.0	19	18	12	7	13	5	2	2	62	.306	4	2	1	1	0
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29	Gielow, Kraig	0.00	0-0	1-0	0	0-0	0	0.2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0
26	Hemphill, Jake	0.00	0-0	2-0	0	0-0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	0	3	0	0	0
4	Rule, Teddy	0.00	0-0	4-0	0	0-0	1	4.0	3	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	17	.176	0	0	0	0	0
28	Wehde, Jake	0.00	0-0	1-0	0	0-0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	0	0	0	0	0
36	Troy, Shaun	4.50	0-0	2-0	0	0-0	0	2.0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	.333	0	0	0	1	1
47	Overstreet, Dalton	8.10	0-0	1-1	0	0-0	0	3.1	5	6	3	2	3	2	0	0	15	.333	1	1	0	0	0
38	Perez, Nate	18.00	0-0	1-0	0	0-0	0	1.0	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	1	5	.400	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	3.78	9-3	41-12	1	1	1	97.2	100	56	41	36	75	16	2	6	385	.260	15	11	1	6	6
	Opponents	9.47	3-9	37-12	1	0	0	96.0	140	114	101	39	76	28	4	18	421	.333	11	14	1	4	1

Northwest Missouri State University - Northwest enters the mid-week contest with Quincy University with a 10-8, 5-4 MIAA, having lost 2 of 3 this past weekend at Washburn University. The Washburn series was Northwest's first losing MIAA Conference series in 2016.

2016 NWMSU Statistics - 

Player

avg

gp-gs

ab

r

h

2b

3b

hr

rbi

tb

slg%

bb

hbp

so

gdp

ob%

sf

sh

sb-att

po

a

e

fld%

Appel,Dane  .333 3-0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 .333 0 1 0 0 .500 0 0 0-0 2 0 0 1.000 

Greenslade,Kolby  .323 18-18 65 13 21 4 1 0 6 27 .415 2 0 11 1 .343 0 2 6-8 22 1 2 .920 

Handzlik,Kevin  .306 13-11 36 1 11 3 0 0 5 14 .389 3 1 7 0 .375 0 0 0-0 6 12 2 .900 

Meyer,Derek  .294 14-10 34 2 10 2 0 0 3 12 .353 4 1 9 3 .385 0 1 0-0 64 7 1 .986 

Gotta,Nick  .274 18-18 62 6 17 4 1 1 18 26 .419 19 0 5 0 .429 3 1 4-7 25 58 4 .954 

Hrdlicka,Jay  .250 18-18 64 8 16 4 0 0 11 20 .313 13 0 13 2 .372 1 0 2-2 34 4 1 .974 

Fort, Garrett  .246 18-18 65 15 16 1 1 0 6 19 .292 14 5 13 4 .417 0 0 6-7 32 1 0 1.000 

Barratt,Aaron  .243 13-9 37 9 9 2 0 1 3 14 .378 1 1 5 1 .275 1 1 2-2 18 0 1 .947 

Lewis,Jake  .241 17-17 54 10 13 4 0 1 7 20 .370 4 1 7 0 .305 0 0 2-5 93 4 0 1.000 

Adams,Ozzie  .232 18-18 69 14 16 1 0 0 6 17 .246 8 4 9 2 .346 0 3 2-3 33 59 2 .979 

Howard,Nick  .206 15-7 34 4 7 1 0 0 4 8 .235 4 1 11 0 .300 1 1 0-0 6 13 1 .950 

Holler,James  .156 16-6 32 2 5 1 0 0 2 6 .188 1 0 8 0 .182 0 0 0-0 76 4 0 1.000 

Wulff,Austin  .143 15-8 35 3 5 2 0 0 2 7 .200 4 2 10 1 .262 1 0 0-0 24 0 0 1.000 

Douglas,Zachary  .091 8-3 11 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 .091 2 3 6 0 .375 0 0 0-0 32 5 2 .949 

Wilkinson,Luke  .000 1-1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 1 .000 0 0 0-0 0 1 0 1.000 

Pablo,Nikko  .000 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0-0 1 6 1 .875 Totals  

 NWMSU            .245 18-18 604 88 148 29 3 3 75 192 .318 79 20 115 15 .348 7 9 24-34 472 201 18 .974 

Opponents          .242 18-18 575 83 139 18 1 6 68 177 .308 60 18 125 7 .329 6 15 28-31 486 231 29 .961 

Player

era

w-l

app-gs

cg

sho

sv

ip

h

r

er

bb

so

2b

3b

hr

ab

b/avg

wp

hbp

bk

sfa

sha

Osborne,John  0.00 0-0 2-0 0 0/0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 .333 0 1 0 0 1 

McElwain,Jimmy  0.00 0-0 1-0 0 0/0 0 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 .000 0 0 0 0 0 

Smith,Carson  1.50 2-1 9-0 0/1 2 12.0 11 4 2 2 7 1 0 0 46 .239 1 4 0 1 0 

Hietpas,Joseph  2.91 3-0 6-0 0/0 0 34.0 22 16 11 16 28 4 0 1 120 .183 3 3 0 0 3 

Pearcy,Hondo  3.38 0-0 3-0 0 0/0 0 5.1 3 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 17 .176 0 1 0 0 1 

Caenepeel,Anthony  3.47 1-4 6-6 0 0/0 0 36.1 35 19 14 7 34 3 0 1 140 .250 1 2 2 3 0 

Shea,Bryce  3.86 2-0 9-0 0 0/0 0 14.0 8 7 6 7 14 1 0 0 49 .163 0 0 0 0 0 

Wagner,Jacob  3.86 0-0 3-0 0 0/0 0 2.1 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 8 .375 0 1 0 0 0 

Pablo,Nikko  4.34 0-0 9-0 0 0/1 0 18.2 16 12 9 10 17 0 1 2 63 .254 5 4 0 1 4 

Roberts,Brad  5.06 1-2 6-6 0 0/1 0 26.2 36 16 15 10 14 9 0 2 106 .340 0 1 0 1 5 

Battaglia,Austin  7.50 1-1 5-0 0 0/0 0 6.0 4 6 5 6 5 0 0 0 20 .200 0 1 0 0 1 

Totals  3.72 10-8 18-18 0 1/1 2 157.1 139 83 65 60 125 18 1 6 575 .242 10 18 2 6 15 

Opponents  3.50 8-10 18-18 0 2/2 3 162.0 148 88 63 79 115 29 3 3 604 .245 13 20 1 7 9 

B2R Analysis - Your Northwest Missouri State Bearcats continue their impressive streak playing NCAA play-off caliber non-conference opponents in 2016. Statistically speaking, the two teams cancel each other out in pitching with QU throwing a 3.78 team ERA and NW throwing a 3.72 team ERA. Defensively, QU is struggling with a team fielding percentage of .946 while NW comes in at .974. Offensively, QU is very explosive with a team batting average of .333, team slugging .546, and team on-base of .404. NW has a team batting average of .245, team slugging of .318, and a team on-base of .348.

The B2R is extremely excited to see which pitcher will get the starting nod for the mid-week game. The three pitchers that come to mind are as follows:

(1) Hondo Pearcy with his 3.38 ERA, 3 appearances, 5.1 innings pitched, 3 hits, 2 runs (both earned), 1 walk, 2 strike-outs, and opposing batting average of .176;

(2) Nikko Pablo, 4.34 ERA, 9 appearances, 18.2 innings pitched, allowed 16 hits, 12 runs (9 earned), 10 walks, 17 strike-outs, and opposing batting average of .254;

(3) Austin Battaglia, 7.50 ERA, 1-1 W-L record, 5 appearances, 6 innings pitched, allowed 4 hits, 6 runs (5 earned), 6 walks, 5 strike-outs, and opposing batting average of .200.

Completely just thinking out loud here: The B2R wonders if Brad Roberts gets the mid-week start since he did not go very deep this past Sunday. But, that would put him on the mound in just 3 days rest when he is used to 7 days between games. It would also give him only 5 days rest for his next scheduled start against Lincoln University on Sunday, March 20, 2016. This means he would pitch twice on short rest compared to what his body is used to resting. The B2R thinks it is probably a long shot that Brad gets the start but it is an interesting discussion.

Regardless of who starts, the discussion worth having is whether whomever the Bearcat pitcher is given the opportunity to pitch, whether he can take advantage of the opportunity, shut down a very talented offense, and make a case for a weekend 3 starter position. Kudos to Coach Darin Loe for giving guys multiple opportunities to earn their way to more playing time. I can't wait to see how the Bearcat pitchers do against Quincy. Who will step up? Who will take advantage of the opportunity? Stay tuned.

Keys to victory for Northwest is (1) guys on base (walks or knocks); (2) execute defensively to limit pitch count (no extra outs); (3) base-running (force QU into defensive errors); and (4) Starting pitcher get into the 6th inning with 3 runs or less.

VIDEO FEED AVAILABLE FOR THIS GAME - You can watch this game via internet video by clicking on this link: http://quhawks.com/watch/?Live=318

Live Stats Available - You can follow live stats of this game via the internet by clicking on this link and going to the Events section: http://www.bearcatsports.com/index.aspx?path=baseball

Go Cats!!

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