Washburn (11-16, 11-12 MIAA) vs Fort Hays State (15-15, 12-12 MIAA)
Date: April 12
Time: 2 p.m.
Rankings: Washburn (none); Fort Hays State (none)
Location: Topeka, Kan.
Field: Falley Field (800)
Live Stats: www.wusports.com

Complete weekly notes

Leading Off
Washburn (11-16, 11-12 MIAA) returns home to host Fort Hays State (15-15, 12-12 MIAA) for an MIAA doubleheader on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

The Series
Washburn and Fort Hays State have met 143 times with the Tigers holding an 83-60 advantage in the series. The teams split last season's four games with each team sweeping the doubleheader at their home stadium. Washburn is 40-65 against Fort Hays State under Steve Anson.

Washburn
The Ichabods took three out of four games from Lincoln over the weekend to move into sixth place in the MIAA standings, just 1/2 game behind Fort Hays State for fifth.
Washburn won game one 11-2 and game two 11-5 before falling in game three 4-2. The 'Bods took the finale 13-4 on Sunday.
Tyler Bean had a spectacular series against the Blue Tigers batting .615 with four home runs, 13 RBI and eight runs scored. He is now batting .319 on the season and leads the team with six home runs and nine doubles. Andy Petz leads WU with a .352 average and 29 RBI. Marcus Peavler is batting .350 with six doubles and has knocked in 12.
Freshman Derek Fogel is 2-3 with a team-low 4.58 ERA, he has struck out 32 batters in 39.1 innings. Brett Ash leads the pitching staff with three wins and has won his last two decisions.

Fort Hays State
The Tigers enter the week at 15-15 overall and 12-12 in MIAA play. FHSU is in fifth place, 1/2 game ahead of Washburn. The Tigers took three out of four games from Truman over the weekend winning the last three.
Sloan Soulia, last week's MIAA Hitter of the Week, leads the team batting .355 with 13 doubles and five home runs, he also has 20 RBI. In all, seven Tigers are hitting .300 or better. Kyle Stacken leads the team with 24 runs batted in, while Brandon Hoefler has three triples, three home runs and 22 RBI.
Brett Macari has a team-low 3.80 ERA in 11 appearances. Connor Beer and David Geiger are tied for the team lead with four wins each. Andy Lewton leads the staff with 42 K's in 52.1 innings. The team ERA is 6.47 and opponents hits .293.

Fort Hays State coach Steve Johnson
Tiger head coach Steve Johnson is in his first season as the head coach. The Tigers are 15-15 under Johnson in his first year. He came to Fort Hays State after spending seven years as the head coach at Butler Community College. Johnson was 235-155 in seven season at the junior college level.

Anson 10th on All-time wins list
Steve Anson has 792 career wins in his 33rd season as a head coach, including 769 wins in his 32 seasons at Washburn. That victory total places him 10th on the all-time NCAA-II list. Anson has the most wins among active MIAA coaches.

FHSU and other schedule changes
Washburn's mid-week doubleheader against Fort Hays State originally scheduled for March 29 has been postponed to April 26.
Because of the series being moved to April 26, the single nine-inning game with Rockhurst originally scheduled for April 26 has been pushed back a day to April 27 at 6 p.m.

Last Time out for Washburn
April 10, 2011 - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods used the long ball to rout Lincoln 13-4 in the series finale on Sunday at the LU Baseball Field. Washburn returns home on Tuesday to host Fort Hays State in an MIAA doubleheader starting at 2 p.m.
Washburn (11-16, 11-12 MIAA) jumped in front 3-0 in the top of the first. Dane Simoneau started things off with a bases-loaded single scoring Blake Boling. Tyler Bean added a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0 and David Wade had an RBI groundout.
The Blue Tigers (9-18, 8-18 MIAA) got two runs back in the bottom of the inning. Cedric Belt had an RBI double and later scored on a single by Gus Durst to make ti 3-2 in favor of Washburn.
The 'Bods broke the game open in the top of the second with five runs to open an 8-2 lead. Marcus Peavler had a sacrifice fly that scored Boone Plager for the first run of the inning. Andy Petz had an RBI double to make it 5-1. After Simoneau was hit by a pitch, Bean launched his fifth home run of the season to center to give WU the six run advantage.
A single run in the fourth made it 9-2 Washburn. Petz drove in his second run of hte game and team-leading 27th of the season with an RBI single to center.
The Ichabods loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth, but were only able to push one run across on a Peavler fielder's choice to make it 10-2.
The Blue Tigers got a single run in the seventh when Kevin Norris drove in Adam Burcham with a sacrifice fly to centerfield. Washburn matched with a single run in the top of the eighth on a sacrifice fly from Blake Hageman to push the lead back to eight at 11-3. Lincoln notched another run in the bottom of the inning on a Chris Pfau solo home run to make it 11-4 in favor of the 'Bods.
Petz launched a solo home run to lead off the ninth and after a groundout Bean smacked his second homer of the game and fourth of the series to make it 13-4.
Bean finished the game 2-for-3 with a pair of home runs, five RBI and three runs scored, while Petz was 4-for-5 with a home run, three runs batted in and three runs scored.
Alex Coons (1-1) earned the complete game win allowing four runs on nine hits, while striking out five. It was the first complete game of Coons' career.
Darren Lasley (1-3) took the loss for Lincoln giving up nine runs on five hits in 3.1 innings. He walked three and struck out two.

Last Time out for Fort Hays State
FHSU Sports Info. - April 9, 2011 - The Fort Hays State baseball team swept Truman on Saturday (Apr. 9) in the final two games of the four-game series. The Tigers won by scores of 8-3 and 5-3 to improve to 15-15 overall and 12-12 in the MIAA.
Game 1: FHSU 8, Truman 3
The Tigers received a strong pitching effort from Connor Beer in the first game. He allowed just four hits and one run over the first five innings, allowing FHSU to build a 6-1 lead. He allowed single runs in the sixth and seventh, but two runs by FHSU in the top of the seventh allowed him to finish the game.
Beer scattered eight hits and did not allow a walk. He had three strikeouts and moved to 4-3 on the season with the win.
Sloan Soulia put the Tigers up 1-0 in the first inning with a RBI single. A two-RBI triple by Brandon Hoefler and two-run home run by Nash Smith in the fourth gave FHSU a 5-1 cushion after Truman tied the game in the second at 1-1. Chris Santoscoy reached home on an error off the bat of Hoefler in the sixth, and Kelton Rule had a RBI single in the seventh. The Tigers scored their final run on another fielding error by the Bulldogs.
Game 2: FHSU 5, Truman 3
The Tigers have struggled to find consistency on the mound in the fourth game of conference series' this year, but closer Brett Macari stopped that trend on Saturday by throwing a nine-inning complete game to give the Tigers a 3-1 series win.
After allowing two runs to the Bulldogs in the second, Macari buckled down to retire 10 of the next 11 batters he faced before running into his final snag in the sixth by allowing one run.
The Tiger offense picked up Macari in the third with three runs to take a 3-2 lead. Sheldon Howell delivered an RBI single and JC Ochoa followed with a two-RBI double. After the run by the Bulldogs in the sixth, the game stayed tied at 3-3 through the seventh.
Kyle Veazey was also tossing a fine game on the mound for Truman until the Tigers finally chased him from the game in the eighth. An error by the Truman third baseman allowed a Tiger runner to score and it ended Veazey's day on the mound with FHSU up 4-3.
The Tigers added an insurance run in the ninth when another error extended the inning and allowed Brandon Hoefler to drive home a run with a single.
Macari allowed just one runner to reach in each of the final three innings, but kept the Bulldogs off the board. He picked up his first win of the season, moving to 1-0, allowing seven hits and one walk with six strikeouts.

Ichabod Player Notes
#1 • Eric Schmid • RHP • R-Fr. • Has allowed three runs in 0.2 innings of relief
#2 • Blake Boling • OF • Sr. • Scored five runs and drove in five during the Lincoln series
#4 • Daren Parker • LHP • Jr. • Picked up his first career complete game in a 7-0 win over Truman State
#5 • Boone Plager • IF • Jr. • Batting .304 on the season with 11 RBI
#7 • Dane Simoneau • IF • Sr. • Batting .290 with four doubles, two home runs and 19 RBI in 26 games played
#8 • Cameron Kasel • C • Sr. • Is 3-for-32 in his last nine games
#9 • Alex Coons • RHP • Sr. • Picked up his first win of the season and his first career complete-game in win over Lincoln
#12 • Shawn Moore • RHP • Sr. • Has given up nine runs in 1.2 innings of work
#14 • Jeremy Heeke • RHP • Sr. • Has given up three runs on six hits in one inning of relief
#15 • Drew Mikkelson • RHP • Sr. • Has allowed nine runs on 12 hits in 4.2 innings of relief
#16 • Raul Guevara • RHP • Sr. • Tossed a complete game in win over Southwest Baptist
#18 • Derek Fogel • LHP • Fr. • Is 2-3 with a 4.58 ERA and a team-leading 32 strikeouts in 39.1 innings of work
#20 • Blake Hageman • IF • Jr. • Batting .215 with a pair of doubles and five RBI
#21 • Matt Raabe • IF • Sr. • Was 2-for-9 at the plate during the Lincoln series
#22 • Travis Cruz • OF • Sr. • Batting .273 on the season through 22 games played
#23 • Tyler Bean • IF • Jr. • Is 17-for-29 with five HR and 18 RBI during current eight-game hitting streak
#25 • Brian Gomez • IF • Sr. • Batting .273 with one double and two RBI in 15 games played
#26 • Seth Huninghake • RHP • Jr. • Has allowed one run on two hits in three innings of relief work
#27 • Joey Hinckley • RHP • Jr. • Has allowed four runs on 11 hits in 8.1 innings of relief
#28 • Kerry Schachenmeyer • RHP • Jr. • Earned the first save of his career in game one win over Missouri Southern
#29 • Vince Liberatore • C • So. • Is 0-for-1 at the plate so far this season
#30 • Marcus Peavler • OF • Jr. • Went 6-for-18 with three RBI in the Lincoln series
#32 • Xavier Lewis • LHP • Jr. • Allowed one run on four hits in one inning in first action of the season against Newman
#33 • Mitchell List • LHP • Sr. • Is 2-1 with a 5.87 ERA in six relief appearances
#34 • TJ Lorson • C/1B • Jr. • Junior from Topeka has appeared seven games with five plate appearances
#35 • Alex Mitts • IF • R-Fr. • Has scored two runs in 17 plate appearances so far this season
#36 • Andy Petz • C/1B • Sr. • Leads team with .353 average, three triples, and 29 RBI
#37 • Brett Ash • RHP • So. • Is 3-4 with a 5.13 ERA in six starts this season
#39 • Brent Matile • C • R-Fr. • Redshirt Freshman from Yates Center, Kan. has yet to see action this season
#40 • David Wade • IF • Sr. • Batting .237 with three home runs and seven RBI in 16 games
#41 • Ben Wilson • IF • Jr. • Hit his first career home run against Southwest Baptist
#42 • Wyatt Hall • IF/OF • Jr. • Was 1-for-7 with two RBI and a run scored in the Lincoln series

Up Next
The Ichabods will host Central Missouri in four-game MIAA series on April 16 and 17. The doubleheaders are scheduled to start at 1 p.m. both days.
WU travels to Rockhurst on April 19 for a non-conference game against the Hawks before returning home to host NW Missouri State on April 22 and 23 in a four-game MIAA series.