THIS WEEK
The University of Mary baseball team closes out their 2019 regular season schedule on the road with visits to St. Cloud, MN, and Aberdeen, SD. The week opened with a Northern Sun doubleheader against St. Cloud State University on Wednesday, May 1. First pitch is scheduled for 1:30 pm. The Marauders then take on the Wolves of Northern State University on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4. Friday's doubleheader begins at 1:30 pm while Saturday's twin bill begins at 12 noon. Both games against the Wolves on Friday and the first on Saturday are Northern Sun contests while the last game of the series is a non-conference meeting.
 
RECORDS
The Marauders are 16-27 overall and 12-18 in the NSIC (9^th place)… St. Cloud State is 34-9 and 22-7 in the NSIC (3^rd). The Huskies rank second in the NCAA Central Region rankings and are 10^th in one national poll and 14^th in another… Northern State is 22-21 overall and 17-15 in the NSIC standings (7^th place) midway through the Wolves midweek matchup with Southwest Minnesota State.
 
THE CHASE
After winning four of five games last week, the Marauders moved from 11^th to ninth in the Northern Sun standings with a 12-18 record with five remaining league games. The top eight teams qualify for the postseason conference tournament. Winona State – who UMary swept in a midweek doubleheader earlier this season – is in eighth place with a 13-14 record and also five games to play. While the Marauders can catch the Warriors, UMary will need help from Winona State opponents Concordia-St. Paul and Minnesota State.
 
SENIOR SENDOFF
UMary honored its 13 seniors on Saturday, April 27, on Senior Day and they came to play. Twelve of the 13 seniors played in the Marauders 6-4 win over Southwest Minnesota State and combined for four runs, nine hits and 4.2 scoreless innings of relief. The lone senior who didn't appear in the game was Charles Bielejeski, who had pitched in both gamed the previous day and earned a save after two innings of relief in game two.
 
SENIOR SALUTE
Darius Barlas, Charles Bielejeski, Alec DeMaria, Connor Doll, Ian Fisher, Colin Gudereit, Travis Holte, Nick McCann, Jesus Payan, Daulton Sauce, Chris Scott, Travis Stevens and Dylan Thomas all are in their final season with the Marauders. Barlas, Bielejeski, DeMaria, Doll, McCann, Sauce, Scott and Stevens each played four seasons for the Marauder.  
 
 
 
LEADOFF SPARK
Jaxon Ford has hit in 12 of his last 13 games, including seven multi-hit games. In the past two weeks he is 16-for-44 with 7 runs scored and four RBIs. The junior leadoff hitter and center fielder is now hitting .287/.364/.357. The Bismarck, ND, is second on the team in doubles (9) and in runs scored (25) and is third in steals (10).  
 
BLAST OFF
Darius Barlas has a team-high nine homers this season to equal Andy Leer and Tyler Liffrig's 2010 total for the most by a UMary player since Liffrig hit 11 in 2009. For the year Barlas is hitting .297/.373/.543 with seven doubles, nine home runs, 33 RBIs and 26 runs scored. Barlas also had been hit a team-high nine times. Despite moving from third base to second base and now to shortstop, Barlas has just five errors on the season.
 
BLAST OFF II
Entering the 2019 season Darius Barlas had homered just once in his career. He has nine this season.
 
CRUSH
Jesus Payan is on a tear, posting hits in 14 of his last 16 games. In his last 11 games he is 15-of-36 with three runs scored, 10 RBIs, five doubles and a home run. He is now hitting .369/.438/.553 for the season with 11 doubles, three triples, three home runs and 29 RBIs with 20 runs scored. His career .351 average is currently sixth all-time at UMary.
 
SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Senior Connor Doll has played all across the diamond for the Marauders. While settling into third base this season, he has also saw some time behind the plate. Hitting second in the lineup, the Hazen, ND, native is batting .271/.358/.350 with 23 runs scored, six doubles, a triple and home run with 14 RBIs. He leads the team with 12 steals in 14 attempts. In the Marauders five game home stand last weekend, Doll was 7-for-15 with six runs scored, four RBIs and two doubles.
 
AGGRESSIVE
The Marauders have 69 steals this season to establish an NCAA era team mark. The school record is 108 in 1997. UMary is fifth in the NSIC in steals this season.
 
K-POW
The Marauders pitching staff averages 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings this season. That rate currently the program's best over the last 13 years. Last season UMary averaged 5.32 strikeouts per nine innings.
 
LET IT FLY
Senior reliever Charles Bielejeski leads the Marauders in ERA with a mark of 1.52. In 16 appearances covering 23.2 innings he has allowed 16 hits and struck out 22, picking up a win and three saves this season.
 
POWER BALL
Sr. RHP Chris Scott averages nearly two strikeouts per inning in his closer role. Scott has 14 strikeouts in 7.1 innings over 10 outings. He has allowed just four hits and has three saves. Scott's primary role is starting left fielder for the Marauders. A 2018 Gold Glove winner, Scott has made several sparking defensive plays again for UMary this season.
 
POWER GAME
Three UMary hurlers average more than a strikeout per inning (minimum 13 innings pitched). Soph. RHP Andrew Brooks has 38 strikeouts in 34.1 innings covering ten appearances, including eight starts. Freshman reliever Brandon Gill has 23 strikeouts with ten walks in 20 innings. Quentin Evers, also a freshman reliever, has 23 strikeouts in 19.2 innings. He also has a save.
 
CONTROL
A pair of freshmen own two of the Marauders best strikeout-to-walk ratios. Jonathan Draheim has struck out 43 hitters and walked 15. In eight starts, he leads the team in wins (three), innings pitched (51) and complete games (2). Draheim has a 3.53 ERA… Daniel Turner has 24 strikeouts and six walks in 27.1 innings. A recent addition to the starting rotation, Turner has allowed just 23 hits covering seven appearances and four starts.
 
CONTROL PART 2
Marauders pitched went 24 straight innings last week without allowing a walk, including all 17 innings pitched in the doubleheader sweep over Bemidji State where the staff allowed one run on the day.
 
DIRTY DOZEN
Jonathan Draheim struck out a career-high 12 hitters in a 1-0 extra inning loss to Southwest Minnesota State University. He allowed only an unearned run, five hits and one walk in 8.2 innings.
 
TURNER TIME
In just his fourth career start, freshman Daniel Turner posted a complete game shutout in the Marauders 4-0 whitewashing of Bemidji State. It was the first complete game win for a Marauders pitcher since Michael Vollmer turned the trick against Apprentice School in March 2014. Turner allowed six hits and no walks to earn his first collegiate win.
 
BULLPEN ON TARGET
In 12.1 innings of work last week, the Marauders bullpen didn't allow a run over five games. Particularly impressive was the effort in a 6-4 win over SMSU when six relievers combined to throw seven shutout innings as the Marauders rallied for the win.
 
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THIS WEEK
The University of Mary baseball team closes out their 2019 regular season schedule on the road with visits to St. Cloud, MN, and Aberdeen, SD. The week opened with a Northern Sun doubleheader against St. Cloud State University on Wednesday, May 1. First pitch is scheduled for 1:30 pm. The Marauders then take on the Wolves of Northern State University on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4. Friday's doubleheader begins at 1:30 pm while Saturday's twin bill begins at 12 noon. Both games against the Wolves on Friday and the first on Saturday are Northern Sun contests while the last game of the series is a non-conference meeting.
 
RECORDS
The Marauders are 16-27 overall and 12-18 in the NSIC (9^th place)… St. Cloud State is 34-9 and 22-7 in the NSIC (3^rd). The Huskies rank second in the NCAA Central Region rankings and are 10^th in one national poll and 14^th in another… Northern State is 22-21 overall and 17-15 in the NSIC standings (7^th place) midway through the Wolves midweek matchup with Southwest Minnesota State.
 
THE CHASE
After winning four of five games last week, the Marauders moved from 11^th to ninth in the Northern Sun standings with a 12-18 record with five remaining league games. The top eight teams qualify for the postseason conference tournament. Winona State – who UMary swept in a midweek doubleheader earlier this season – is in eighth place with a 13-14 record and also five games to play. While the Marauders can catch the Warriors, UMary will need help from Winona State opponents Concordia-St. Paul and Minnesota State.
 
SENIOR SENDOFF
UMary honored its 13 seniors on Saturday, April 27, on Senior Day and they came to play. Twelve of the 13 seniors played in the Marauders 6-4 win over Southwest Minnesota State and combined for four runs, nine hits and 4.2 scoreless innings of relief. The lone senior who didn't appear in the game was Charles Bielejeski, who had pitched in both gamed the previous day and earned a save after two innings of relief in game two.
 
SENIOR SALUTE
Darius Barlas, Charles Bielejeski, Alec DeMaria, Connor Doll, Ian Fisher, Colin Gudereit, Travis Holte, Nick McCann, Jesus Payan, Daulton Sauce, Chris Scott, Travis Stevens and Dylan Thomas all are in their final season with the Marauders. Barlas, Bielejeski, DeMaria, Doll, McCann, Sauce, Scott and Stevens each played four seasons for the Marauder.  

  
LEADOFF SPARK
Jaxon Ford has hit in 12 of his last 13 games, including seven multi-hit games. In the past two weeks he is 16-for-44 with 7 runs scored and four RBIs. The junior leadoff hitter and center fielder is now hitting .287/.364/.357. The Bismarck, ND, is second on the team in doubles (9) and in runs scored (25) and is third in steals (10).  
 
BLAST OFF
Darius Barlas has a team-high nine homers this season to equal Andy Leer and Tyler Liffrig's 2010 total for the most by a UMary player since Liffrig hit 11 in 2009. For the year Barlas is hitting .297/.373/.543 with seven doubles, nine home runs, 33 RBIs and 26 runs scored. Barlas also had been hit a team-high nine times. Despite moving from third base to second base and now to shortstop, Barlas has just five errors on the season.
 
BLAST OFF II
Entering the 2019 season Darius Barlas had homered just once in his career. He has nine this season.
 
CRUSH
Jesus Payan is on a tear, posting hits in 14 of his last 16 games. In his last 11 games he is 15-of-36 with three runs scored, 10 RBIs, five doubles and a home run. He is now hitting .369/.438/.553 for the season with 11 doubles, three triples, three home runs and 29 RBIs with 20 runs scored. His career .351 average is currently sixth all-time at UMary.
 
SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Senior Connor Doll has played all across the diamond for the Marauders. While settling into third base this season, he has also saw some time behind the plate. Hitting second in the lineup, the Hazen, ND, native is batting .271/.358/.350 with 23 runs scored, six doubles, a triple and home run with 14 RBIs. He leads the team with 12 steals in 14 attempts. In the Marauders five game home stand last weekend, Doll was 7-for-15 with six runs scored, four RBIs and two doubles.
 
AGGRESSIVE
The Marauders have 69 steals this season to establish an NCAA era team mark. The school record is 108 in 1997. UMary is fifth in the NSIC in steals this season.
 
K-POW
The Marauders pitching staff averages 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings this season. That rate currently the program's best over the last 13 years. Last season UMary averaged 5.32 strikeouts per nine innings.
 
LET IT FLY
Senior reliever Charles Bielejeski leads the Marauders in ERA with a mark of 1.52. In 16 appearances covering 23.2 innings he has allowed 16 hits and struck out 22, picking up a win and three saves this season.
 
POWER BALL
Sr. RHP Chris Scott averages nearly two strikeouts per inning in his closer role. Scott has 14 strikeouts in 7.1 innings over 10 outings. He has allowed just four hits and has three saves. Scott's primary role is starting left fielder for the Marauders. A 2018 Gold Glove winner, Scott has made several sparking defensive plays again for UMary this season.
 
POWER GAME
Three UMary hurlers average more than a strikeout per inning (minimum 13 innings pitched). Soph. RHP Andrew Brooks has 38 strikeouts in 34.1 innings covering ten appearances, including eight starts. Freshman reliever Brandon Gill has 23 strikeouts with ten walks in 20 innings. Quentin Evers, also a freshman reliever, has 23 strikeouts in 19.2 innings. He also has a save.
 
CONTROL
A pair of freshmen own two of the Marauders best strikeout-to-walk ratios. Jonathan Draheim has struck out 43 hitters and walked 15. In eight starts, he leads the team in wins (three), innings pitched (51) and complete games (2). Draheim has a 3.53 ERA… Daniel Turner has 24 strikeouts and six walks in 27.1 innings. A recent addition to the starting rotation, Turner has allowed just 23 hits covering seven appearances and four starts.
 
CONTROL PART 2
Marauders pitched went 24 straight innings last week without allowing a walk, including all 17 innings pitched in the doubleheader sweep over Bemidji State where the staff allowed one run on the day.
 
DIRTY DOZEN
Jonathan Draheim struck out a career-high 12 hitters in a 1-0 extra inning loss to Southwest Minnesota State University. He allowed only an unearned run, five hits and one walk in 8.2 innings.
 
TURNER TIME
In just his fourth career start, freshman Daniel Turner posted a complete game shutout in the Marauders 4-0 whitewashing of Bemidji State. It was the first complete game win for a Marauders pitcher since Michael Vollmer turned the trick against Apprentice School in March 2014. Turner allowed six hits and no walks to earn his first collegiate win.
 
BULLPEN ON TARGET
In 12.1 innings of work last week, the Marauders bullpen didn't allow a run over five games. Particularly impressive was the effort in a 6-4 win over SMSU when six relievers combined to throw seven shutout innings as the Marauders rallied for the win.
 
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