Washburn Ichabods Week 10 Game Notes
Record: 20-19 (16-16 MIAA)

Game Notes

at Rockhurst Hawks (26-13)
Kansas City, Mo. • Loyola Park

Wednesday

04/25

at

Rockhurst

9 inn.

6:00 p.m.

at Northwest Missouri Bearcats (14-28, 13-19 MIAA)
Maryville, Mo. • Bearcat Field

Saturday	04/28	at	Northwest Missouri	7 inn.	1:00 p.m.	Live Stats
Saturday	04/28	at	Northwest Missouri	9 inn.	3:00 p.m.	Live Stats
Sunday	04/29	at	Northwest Missouri	7 inn.	12:00 p.m.	Live Stats
Sunday	04/29	at	Northwest Missouri	9 inn.	2:00 p.m.	Live Stats

Leading Off
The Ichabods will continue their 11-game road trip with five games this week. Wednesday they'll play a game at Rockhurst at 6 p.m. and then Saturday and Sunday they'll play four at Northwest Missouri. Saturday they will play a 1 p.m. doubleheader and Sunday they'll play a noon doubleheader.

Washburn was swept in four games at No. 6 Central Missouri last weekend to fall to 20-19 overall and move to sixth in the MIAA at 16-16. The Hawks swept Drury last weekend and are 26-13 overall with a seven-game winning streak. The Bearcats were swept in their MIAA series, dropping four straight at Pittsburg State and they're 14-28 overall and 13-19 in the league.

The Ichabods will be looking to gain some ground after falling from a tie for second coming into last weekend to sixth place. With eight MIAA games left, they hold on to the final spot in the conference standings that would make it into the MIAA tournament.

The Series Records
Rockhurst holds a slim 32-30 lead in the all-time series against Washburn after getting a 5-2 win earlier this year. The two first met in 1949 and they have played each other at least once a year since 1994. Washburn took two games last year and the previous two years they split four-game series.

The Ichabods and Bearcats are tied in their series record at 48 wins each. Washburn took three of four last year and the Bearcats did the same in 2010. The home team is 13-3 in the last four years.

Head Coach Steve Anson gets his 800th win at Washburn
Washburn head coach Steve Anson will enter the week with exactly 800 wins at Washburn after reaching the milestone April 14 against Lincoln in a 2-1, extra inning win. He coached his 1500th game at Washburn in the season finale last year and now in 2012, his 33rd season at Washburn, he reached the milestone. Anson, the winningest coach in the MIAA, is 800-736-3 (.517) in 33 seasons at Washburn and 823-758-3 (.521) in 34 seasons overall as a head coach.

Anson entered 2012 with the 10th highest win total among active NCAA Division II coaches with 803. That's the highest among MIAA coaches. Among coaches all-time, he's 27th in career wins.

Last Time Out For Washburn
WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Central Missouri scored two runs in the ninth inning in the second game Sunday against Washburn to complete a doubleheader sweep of the Ichabods. The Mules won the first game 5-1 and took the second game 6-5 to sweep the four-game MIAA series.

Down 4-2 in the seventh inning of game two, Marcus Peavler drove John Calhoun in with a double down the left field line. Tyler Bean later drove in Peavler and Boone Plager with a single up the middle to give the Ichabods a 5-4 lead.

Ichabods starter Trent Speaker shut the Mules out in the seventh and eighth and then gave up a leadoff single to Ben Cox in the bottom of the ninth. He stole second and then advanced to third on a fly ball. With one out, the Mules tried to bunt and Speaker fielded the ball and threw Cox out at the plate to make it two outs. With runners at first and second now, the Mules scored one on an error by Plager and then Bret Schwartz drove Jon Cotter in with a walk-off single through the right side of the infield.

Speaker (2-3) took the loss after the two unearned runs. He gave up four earned runs off nine hits and walked one with four strikeouts.

Calhoun and Peavler each went 3 for 5 and Connor Crimmins went 3 for 3 with a walk. Calhoun doubled to lead off the game and then scored after a sacrifice bunt and RBI single by Peavler. The Mules scored two in the bottom of the first and one more in the second before Washburn got one back in the third. Boone singled to start the inning and later scored on a hit by Bean. The Mules built a 4-2 lead with a run in the sixth before Washburn's comeback in the seventh.

The Ichabods had 15 hits in the second game Sunday after getting just four in the first game of the doubleheader and 13 total in the first three games. The Mules kept Washburn hitless until the fourth in the first game Sunday and had a 5-0 lead in the sixth, getting all the runs off Bean, Washburn's starter who fell to 3-3.

The Ichabods had just four hits in the game with two of them producing their only run in the seventh. Eric Graff doubled and then Eric Lammers replaced him on the base path. Blaine Matthews then drove him in with a double.

Washburn falls to sixth in MIAA standings
The Ichabods fell from a tie for third to sixth in the MIAA standings after last week's action. Washburn went 0-4, getting swept by first-place Central Missouri.

The top six teams in the league will earn spots in the MIAA tournament, May 10-13 in Kansas City, Kan., at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.

Ash throwing strong in junior year as Ichabods top starter
Junior pitcher Brett Ash has been Washburn's starter in game one of every four-game series this year but one. He's 4-4 overall with two shutouts and seven complete games. His complete game total is seventh in the nation. He has a 3.32 ERA and has allowed 21 earned runs off 57 hits in 57 innings. He's struck out 49 while walking just 13.

Ash had gone 4-1 in four straight starts with a 1.50 ERA before facing Central Missouri last Saturday. He had struck out 33 and walked just three in those five starts. He was named the MIAA pitcher of the week after he threw a shutout March 16 at Truman. He gave up six hits with eight strikeouts in the nine-inning game.

Calhoun stays above .400 and keeps MIAA batting lead
Senior John Calhoun had a slow start Saturday against No. 6 Central Missouri but went 4 for 6 on Sunday to keep his season batting average above .400, now with a .409 percentage. He remains the top batter in the MIAA and he's 37th in the nation. Calhoun is second in the league with a .698 slugging percentage and seventh with a .477 on-base percentage. He leads the MIAA with 17 doubles and he's in the top nine in hits, runs scored, RBI, home runs and total bases.

Calhoun leads Washburn with 20 multi-hit games and he's tied for the team lead with eight multi-RBI games. He also had a team-high 12-game hitting streak that started the second game of the year and saw his average climb as high as .533 and end at .490.

Journeyman Calhoun makes Washburn last stop on 4-team college career
Kansas City, Mo., native John Calhoun graduated from Rockhurst High School in 2008 and went on the play a year at Central Missouri in 2009. He then went to Johnson County CC and then on to Cleveland State last year as a junior. Cleveland State dropped its baseball program and he transferred to Washburn this year to play his senior year.

Calhoun batted .219 with 16 hits in 73 at-bats as a freshman at UCM. He had 12 RBI and a home run. He hit .368 with seven homers at JCCC and then hit .254 at Cleveland State and finished third in the Horizon League with 20 stolen bases.
Ichabods showing power at the plate

Washburn has 31 home runs through 39 games this year. Last year the Ichabods hit 24 homers in 50 games. Washburn has a .457 slugging percentage this year after slugging .375 last year.

John Calhoun leads Washburn with eight home runs. He's slugging .698 on the year. Tyler Bean is second with seven home runs and Brad Alberts is second with a .594 slugging percentage.

Calhoun and Ichabods running wild on the base path
When John Calhoun isn't driving himself in with home runs, he's getting on base and then putting himself into scoring position with stolen bases. He has 20 steals this year and has been caught stealing five times. He has three games this year with two steals. He's second in the MIAA in steals and steal attempts. He already has the most steals as an Ichabod since Kyle Peter stole 27 in 2007.

As a team, Washburn is 56 of 69 stealing bases. The Ichabods have stolen safely in 17 of their last 19 attempts dating back to their series at Missouri Western starting March 31. Blaine Matthews, Marcus Peavler and Boone Plager are a combined 20 of 21 on the base paths.

Washburn catcher Richard Swan has thrown out 13 would-be base stealers in 38 stolen base attempts and the Washburn catchers are allowing opponents just 68 percent success on the base paths while Washburn is 81 percent on the bags.

Ichabods picked sixth in MIAA preseason poll
The Ichabods were picked to finish sixth in the MIAA preseason coaches poll released Thursday by the conference office. Washburn finished sixth in last year's conference standings to earn a trip to the postseason tournament.

The Ichabods went 22-28 last year and 20-23 in the conference. Central Missouri and Emporia State shared the MIAA regular season title with 37-7 records and UCM was picked first this year with 99 points and nine first-place votes. ESU got two first-place votes and 92 points. The Ichabods earned 56 points and trailed No. 5 Missouri Southern (63 points), No. 4 Fort Hays State (73 points) and No. 3 Missouri Western (74 points).

About the Rockhurst Hawks
Rockhurst is 26-13 overall and second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division with a 17-9 record. Pitcher Mark Sappington, who gave up just two hits to Washburn in a win back on February 29, is 7-2 with a 1.80 ERA. He's struck out 71 with 19 walks and batters hit .197 against him. At the plate, Patrick Chandler leads the team with a .371 batting average and Ryan Porter provides the power with a .579 slugging percentage and team highs of six home runs and 39 RBI.

Earlier this year against Rockhurst
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Both pitching staffs combined for 25 strikeouts but the Ichabods fell 5-2 February 29 to Rockhurst in their home opener at Falley Field.

Mark Biesma had a solid outing in his first career start for Washburn. He gave up three runs, two earned, off three hits over five innings. He gave up a walk and then an RBI triple to open the game and Rockhurst led 2-0 after an inning. The Hawks scored an unearned run in the second before Washburn got on the board in the bottom of the third. Tyler Bailey reached on a two-base throwing error by the shortstop and then he scored when Blaine Matthews singled up the middle.

That was the only run Rockhurst starter Mark Sappington gave up. He struck out 11 through six innings and gave up two hits and walked none.

Brett Ash relieved Biesma in the sixth inning and gave up a run in the seventh. Washburn got it back on an RBI groundout from Brent Matile that scored John Calhoun. The Hawks got another run in the eighth and shut Washburn out the final two innings. The Ichabods had the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth after Bean walked and Matile singled but the Ichabods couldn't convert.

Ash recorded six strikeouts in four innings of relief. Biesma took the loss (0-1) and Sappington got the win (2-0). Josh Tols pitched the final three innings for Rockhurst to earn a save, his second of the year.

Washburn had left just two runners on base until the final inning. The Hawks stranded seven runners in the game. Rockhurst finished with eight hits as a team and its two pitchers combined for 15 strikeouts. Washburn had five hits and 10 strikeouts.

Calhoun ended up with two hits for Washburn and the Hawks got a pair of hits from T.J. Dailey and Anthony Davis.

About the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats
Northwest Missouri was swept last weekend at Pittsburg State and sits at 14-28 overall and 13-19 in the MIAA. Ryan Abernathy is three points behind Washburn's John Calhoun for the MIAA lead with a .405 batting average. Eric Swain leads the Bearcats with nine homers and a .610 slugging percentage. Chase Anderson leads the pitching staff with four wins (4-6) and Chris Green (2-4) leads with a 5.51 ERA.

Season Flashbacks: Don't Forget...
Done in a jiffy: The Ichabods set a school record since single-game statistics were first archived in 1999 by playing a 57-minute game April 6 against Missouri Southern. WU starter Brett Ash threw 58 pitches and gave up three hits and no walks in the 3-0 win. MSSU starter Cody Griebling threw 58 pitches in the loss. Both threw complete games. There were three double plays and only three runners left on base between the two teams.
Ichabods get first four-game sweep since 2009: The Ichabods took all four games March 24-25 against Southwest Baptist for their first four-game sweep since 2009. The Ichabods also went on a six-game winning streak and it was their biggest streak since winning seven straight in 2006. Washburn's last four-game sweep was March 20 and 21 at home against Northwest Missouri.
Schachenmeyer earns MIAA pitcher of the week honor: Washburn senior pitcher Kerry Schachenmeyer was named the MIAA pitcher of the week after throwing a shutout March 24 against SBU. Schachenmeyer shared the pitching award with Fort Hays State's Shawn Lewick. Schachenmeyer pitched a com­plete-game shutout as Washburn won 11-0 against Southwest Baptist as part of a four-game sweep. He allowed just three hits and struck out four. In the fourth inning, he allowed a single and then walked two to load the bases. He got the next batter to fly out to end the inning and leave all three on base. He allowed just one batter the final three innings with a hit-by-pitch.
Shutout leads Ash to MIAA pitcher of the week honor: Junior pitcher Brett Ash threw a complete game shutout March 16 in Washburn's series opener at Truman to earn him MIAA pitcher of the week honor. Ash went nine innings against the Bulldogs and allowed six hits and a walk while striking out eight. He pitched out of a two-hit inning in the second and then in the fourth he allowed the bases to get loaded and got out of the inning with a strikeout. He pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn the complete game and shutout.
Ichabods update record books with offensive explosion: The Ichabods scored 17 runs and had 21 hits March 12 in the third game of their series at Pittsburg State. Since single-game records were kept in 1999, that's the sixth-highest hit total and the second-highest in an MIAA game. The Ichabods had 24 hits at Southwest Baptist on April 14, 2000. The six home runs Washburn hit was tied for the highest in school history. Washburn also hit six homers at SBU on April 14, 2006. John Calhoun had six hits, tied for the second most in school history. He and Richard Swan became the first pair of Ichabods to each hit two homers in the same game since single-game records were kept in 1999.

Up Next For The Ichabods
The Ichabods will finish their 11-game road trip with a doubleheader in Emporia on May 4 and then play two in Topeka on May 5 in what will be Senior Day for Washburn and the regular season finale.