The Basics
Games #31-33
Oral Roberts (18-12, 6-4) vs. Northern Colorado (10-21, 3-9)
Dates: April 11^th | April 12^th | April 13^th | 3:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. (Central Time)
Location: Nottingham Field (Greeley, Colorado)
Watch: Summit League Network | LiveStats: Sidearm LiveStats
 
Greeley, Colo. – The Oral Roberts baseball team opens up their first meeting with Northern Colorado on Friday afternoon in Greeley as they resume Summit League play.
 
The Golden Eagles come into the weekend off of an impressive victory, 10-6 over the Oklahoma State Cowboys, where they recorded 15 hits and Conner Johnson struck out a career high seven batters in just three innings. 
 
Will Edmunson also stayed hot on Tuesday night and enters the weekend as one of the league's hottest hitters going 11-for-20 over his last four games driving in three runs and extending his hit streak to 10 games. 
  
Pitching Matchup: 
RHP Easton Teel (2-1, 2.45) v. TBD
RHP Nathan Love (4-4, 3.07) v. TBD
RHP Brendan Asher (1-0, 5.79) v. TBD 
 
 
Inside the Series:
Oral Roberts leads the all-time series 13-0-1 over the Bears winning the last five matchups.  The two teams tied a game due to the Sunday curfew rule on April 7^th, 2024 ending in a 5-5 score.  The Golden Eagles average 11.8 runs per game against UNC, scoring 26 runs in their first-ever meeting in 2022.  The last time the two met was in the Summit League Tournament Championship game in Tulsa where ORU won 11-4. 
 
Quick Hits: 
-            ORU has won three straight since going on their longest losing streak of the year
-            Will Edmunson is 11 for his last 20 at the plate as one of the hottest hitters in the Summit
-            Easton Teel and Nathan Love continue to be the one-two punch for the Golden Eagle starting rotation going a combined 13.0 innings giving up three runs and striking out 15.
 
Scouting the Opponent:
 Northern Colorado comes into this weekend's matchup at 10-21 fresh off of a win over the United States Air Force Academy Wednesday night by a final of 8-7.  However, they've struggled as of late in Summit League play dropping eight of their last nine league games.  The Bears come into the weekend in fifth in the conference with wins over North Dakota State and South Dakota State.
 
UNC is led offensively by Kai Wagner who leads the team with five homers and 32 RBIs in 2025 to go along with a .317 average.  On top of his averages, Wagner is a tough out overall, walking 28 times to just 19 strikeouts, posting one of the best walk-to-strikeout ratios in the Summit.  Jake King follows him up with an average of .318 which leads the team of those who have started all 31 games this season.  As a unit, the Bears hit .280, 146^th nationally, and have only hit 14 homers, ranking 280^th in division one. 
 
On the bump, Murphy Gienger leads the way for the Bears with a 1-2 record and 5.61 ERA in 43.1 innings of work walking only 14 batters to 48 strikeouts.  Geinger is in a three-way tie with a pair of Bison for the most punchouts in conference play at 25.  Right-hander Dylan Smith who sports a 1-5 record and 6.75 ERA along with righty Jake Storey who is 0-2 with an 8.70 ERA round out UNC's weekend rotation. The Bears as a staff have struggled with a team ERA of 8.09 ranking 255^th in the country and allowing their opponents to hit .280.
 
Defensively is where the Bears have struggled the most with a fielding percentage of just .951 ranking 284^th nationally, the lowest of any Golden Eagle opponent.  In addition, they have committed 57 errors which is the highest total for an ORU opponent in 2025 averaging 1.8 per game.  UNC has committed at least one error in the last 12 games and five of those have been multi-error contests.

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