Washburn (12-17, 12-13 MIAA) vs No. 2 Central Missouri (27-5, 22-4 MIAA)
Date: April 16-17
Time: 1 p.m. both days
Rankings: Washburn (none); Central Missouri (No. 2, Collegiate Baseball; No. 6, NCBWA)
Location: Topeka, Kan.
Field: Falley Field (800)
Live Stats: www.wusports.com

Complete weekly notes

Leading Off
Washburn (12-17, 12-13 MIAA) continues its five game home stand hosting the No. 2-ranked Central Missouri Mules (27-5, 22-4 MIAA) in a four-game MIAA series. Doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday will start at 1 p.m. both days. Washburn split a doubleheader with Fort Hays State on Tuesday winning the opener 1-0 before falling 5-4 in the nightcap.

The Series
Washburn and Central Missouri have met 81 times on the diamond with the Mules holding a 65-16 advantage in the series. The Mules took three out of four games from Washburn in Warrensburg last season. Washburn is 16-65 against Central Missouri under Steve Anson.

Washburn
The Ichabods split a mid-week doubleheader with Fort Hays State on Tuesday. Washburn won game one 1-0 behind a pitching gem from freshman Derek Fogel, before falling short in a comeback bid, 5-4 in game two.
Marcus Peavler leads WU with a .345 average. Four players are batting .300 or better for the 'Bods. Andy Petz has the only three triples on the team and leads the squad with 29 RBIs. Tyler Bean is batting .321 with 10 doubles, six home runs and 22 runs batted in.
Fogel is 3-3 with a team-low 3.88 ERA, he has struck out 38 batters in 46.1 innings. Brett Ashis tied with Fogel for the team lead with three wins and has won his last two decisions.

Central Missouri
The Mules enter the weekend at 27-5 overall, 22-4 in MIAA play and ranked No. 2 in the nation by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. UCM took three of four from UNO last weekend in Omaha and the Mules have won 11 of their last 12 games.
Seven Mules are hitting .300 or better led by Nick DeBiasse, who is hitting .478 and leads the team with 16 doubles, eight home runs and 38 RBIs. UCM has 100 extra-base hits compared to 58 for opponents, including 60 doubles and 32 home runs. Mules pitchers have given up just seven long balls all year.
Don Lisi leads the staff with a 7-0 record and a 3.30 ERA. Matt Curtis is 6-0 in eight starts and sports a 3.98 earned run average. The team ERA stands at 4.30 and the staff has struck out 197 batters in 249 innings.

Central Missouri head coach Tom Myers
Mules head coach Tom Myers is in his fourth season leading the UCM program. His school and career record stands at 170-48. Myers was an assistant at Central Missouri from 2001-03 and then an assistant at Kansas State for four years before returning to Warrensburg. Myers played at Pittsburg State.

Anson 10th on All-time wins list
Steve Anson has 793 career wins in his 33rd season as a head coach, including 770 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.

Tyler Bean named MIAA Hitter of the Week
Junior third baseman Tyler Bean was named MIAA Hitter of the Week for his performance in five games last week. Bean hit .632 with three doubles, four home runs, 17 RBIs and 10 runs scored as the 'Bods went 3-2 on the week. This is the first Player of the Week award for Bean.

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 12, 2011 - TOPEKA, Kan. -- Derek Fogel tossed a complete game two-hitter to lead the Washburn Ichabods to a 1-0 win in the opening game of an MIAA doubleheader with Fort Hays State on Tuesday afternoon at Falley Field. The Tigers rebounded to win game two 5-4. Washburn is back in action this Saturday and Sunday when Central Missouri comes to town.
Fogel (3-3) tossed a gem in the first game retiring the last 16 batters he faced and 20 of the final 21 hitters. He walked one and struck out six.
Washburn (12-17, 12-13 MIAA) pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the fifth inning. Boone Plager led off with a walk and went to second on Blake Boling's sacrifice bunt. He went to third on a flyout to right by Travis Cruz and scored on an infield single by Marcus Peavler.
Chase Schippers (0-2) was the tough luck loser for the Tigers (16-16, 13-13 MIAA) allowed the one run on four hits in six innings. He walked one and fanned four.
Fort Hays State jumped in front 1-0 in the top of the first in game two. Sloan Soulia had a sacrifice fly that scored Brandon Hoefler. JC Ochoa singled home Nash Smith in the third to make it 2-0 in favor of FHSU. A sacrifice fly by Brett Macari in the fourth made it 3-0 Tigers.
Washburn got on the board with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth. Blake Boling had an RBI groundout to plate the first run and Travis Cruz singled home Plager, but the Ichabods stranded two runners in scoring position.
JC Ochoa had a sacrifice fly in the fifth to put the Tigers back in front by a pair at 4-2. Chris Santoscoy scored on a double play ball in the seventh and Fort Hays State led 5-2.
Washburn pulled to within a run in the bottom of the seventh when David Wade belted his fourth home run of the season, a two-run shot, to make it 5-4 FHSU, but again the 'Bods stranded a pair of runners.
Tyler Bean doubled with one out in the eigth to put the potential tying run in scoring position, but a strikeout and lineout ended the threat and the game.
Joey Hinckley (0-1) took the loss for Washburn allowing four runs on seven hits in five innings. Mitchell List allowed one run on two hits in one inning and Kerry Schachenmeyer tossed three scoreless innings in relief.
David Geiger (5-2) earned the win for the Tigers throwing 1.1 innings of scoreless relief.

Last Time out for Central Missouri
UCM Sports Info. - April 10, 2011 - The No. 2 Central Missouri baseball Mules came back with 3-of-4 from an important series with the Mavericks of Nebraska Omaha on Friday and Saturday. The Mules took the first three games by scores of 6-1, 9-8 and 10-6, before falling in the finale 10-0.
The Mules (27-5, 22-4 MIAA) got a complete game from senior right-hander Don Lisi in the opener, as he gave up only one run in seven innings. He struck out three batters, and gave up only seven hits in the game, with no walks.
Offensively, the Mules jumped on 2010 MIAA Pitcher of the Year Joe Holtmeyer from the start, tallying three runs in the first inning thanks to four hits, including two bunt singles. UCM tallied two more in the fourth thanks to an error by the Mavs (20-9, 16-8 MIAA), and the final run in the seventh on an RBI single from senior Tyler Ruch. The Mavericks only run came in the fifth inning. Ruch led the UCM offense with two hits on the day.
In the nine-inning contest, Central Missouri jumped out early again with five runs in the third inning, but the Mavericks kept it within striking distance, tagging two in the bottom half. UCM scored three runs in the next two innings, but the Mavs tallied five, making it 8-7. Neither team's pitching could throw up zeros until the seventh after the Mavericks tied it at eight the inning before.
The difference came when sophomore right-hander Aaron Baker entered the game in the eighth. He threw up two scoreless innings, and thanks to a leadoff double by Nick DeBiasse in the top of the ninth, followed by a UNO error a couple batters later that allowed him to score, Baker grabbed the win. The teams combined for 26 hits in the game, with UCM generating 10.
The opener on day two saw the Mules offense put on a clinic, starting the game's first at-bat. Junior Bret Schwartz tripled, then DeBiasse knocked an RBI double to right center to score him. An RBI ground-out by Will Mulligan scored Ruch to make it 2-0 Mules.
The Mules made it 5-0 in the third, thanks to back-to-back homers from DeBiasse and Mulligan, but the Mavericks didn't give up, scoring two runs in each of the next three innings to come within a run at 7-6. Junior lefthander Travis Unthank came in to thwart the comeback though, tossing the final 2.2 innings to get the save. For good measure, the Mules put up three more runs in the top of the sixth on back-to-back doubles by Albert Selanders and Ruch, followed by another RBI from DeBiasse with a single.
DeBiasse went 3-of-4 with four RBI to lead the attack, while Matt Curtis got the win on the mound. The Mules pounded out 13 hits in the game while UNO had 11.
The series finale was all Mavericks though, as starter Matt Tew threw a gem, giving up only two hits and no runs through six innings. Meanwhile, the UNO offense got rolling in the fourth, tallying four runs off starter Kurtis Schuyler. They scored two more in the fifth, and from there the Mules couldn't keep them off the board, eventually falling to the 10-run rule in the seventh. The Mavericks out-hit UCM 13-4 in the game.

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. • Scored the winning run in 1-0 win over Fort Hays State
#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. • Tossed a complete game two-hitter in 1-0 win over Fort Hays State
#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. • 16-for-38 during current nine game hitting streak
#23 • Tyler Bean • IF • Jr. • Is 19-for-35 in his last 10 games
#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 eight runs on 18 hits in 13.1 innings pitched
#28 • Kerry Schachenmeyer • RHP • Jr. • Tossed three scoreless innings of relief against Fort Hays State
#29 • Vince Liberatore • C • So. • Is 0-for-1 at the plate so far this season
#30 • Marcus Peavler • OF • Jr. • Has three game-winning RBIs on the season
#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 6.23 ERA in seven 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 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. • Is second on the team with four home runs
#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 travel 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.
Washburn travels to Fort Hays State on April 26 for a make-up doubleheader with the Tigers before returning home the next day to host Rockhurst in a single nine-inning non-conference game.