Morris – The Minnesota Morris baseball team will be back at home this week (Apr. 17, 21 and 22) for the first time since last Tuesday (Apr. 10). The Cougars will be hosting NAIA school Mayville state tomorrow (Apr. 17) and conference opponent Northland (Apr. 21 and 22).

The Cougars are coming off being swept by Northwestern over the weekend, they lost all three game by a combined score of four runs. Morris will try to get back in the playoff hunt against Northland.  The Cougars and Comets will play a doubleheader tomorrow (Apr. 17) starting at 2:00 p.m. Morris and Northland will play a doubleheader on Saturday (Apr. 21) starting at 1:00 and on Sunday (Apr. 22) will play one game starting at 1:00 p.m.

Overall Morris is 4-20 on the season.

Home sweet home: The Cougars are 4-1 on the season, compared to 0-11 away from Cougar Diamond field.

Last season: The Cougars and Comets did not play last season, but did play in 2009 with Mayville State winning both meetings, 6-0, 8-2 respectively. Morris took all three games from Northland last season (7-5, 2-0, 8-5).

About the Cougars:  Nick Perrotte  leads team in batting average (.347), on-base percentage (.437), hits (26), total plate appearance (88), games played (24), at-bats (75), walks (11), and second in runs scored (13)…Mike McGill currently is in the middle of a seven game hitting streak, first on the team in slugging percentage (.466), doubles (7), runs batted in (15), games played (24), total bases (34), triples (1), second in batting average (.342), on base percentage (.422), hits (25)… Eric Terres leads the team in stolen bases (17), stolen base attempts (19), walks (11), runs scored (17), games played (24), third on the team in batting average (.319), on-base percentage (.419), hits (23), and fourth on the team with 23 total bases…Dustin Sauter is fifth in batting average (.253), second in slugging percentage (.413), second in total bases (31), first in doubles (7), fourth in hits (19), and has the team's only home run…Jake Johnson is leading the team in era (3.02), opposing batting average (.291), wins (2), innings pitched (41.2), strike outs (28), appearances (8), games started (6), batters struck out looking (5).

About the Comets: 20-10 overall and 18-6 on the road…Ricky Alvernaz is leading the team in batting average (.427), at-bats (96), second on the team in runs, first in hits (41), doubles (10), third in doubles (2),second in home runs (2), first in runs batted in (35), first in total bases (61), third in slugging percentage (.635), third in hit by pitches (12), and hast started in 29 games…Dillon Lundin second on the team in batting average (.406), fourth in at-bats (69), third in hits (28), fourth in doubles (5), first in triples (3), second in home runs (2), third in total bases (45), second in slugging percentage (.652)…Duell Higbe leads the team in era (1.04), fourth in games played (7), leads in the team in saves (4)..Victor Sokolofsky leads the team in innings pitched (32), second on the team in strikeouts (24)…

About the Lumberjacks: 9-18 overall and 2-3 on the road…Petere Aerts leads the team in batting average (.392), runs (30), hits (38), total bases (48), on-base percentage (.500), stolen bases with 12, slugging percentage (.495), second in walks (18), at-bats (97), and third in doubles (6)…Cody Leland is second in batting average (.373), started all 27 games, third in runs (16), fourth in hits (28), fifth in doubles (3), fourth in total bases (31), third in slugging percentage (.413), fourth in walks (12)…Dan Romano leads the team in era (2.25), appearances (12)…Brandon Bodart is tied for the team lead in wins (2), leads the team in innings pitched (43.1).



 

Category	Morris	Mayville State	Northland
Batting Average	.255	.302	.288
Runs	80	180	154
Hits	163	254	231
Homeruns	1	14	2
Walks	62	100	114
Strikeouts	143	171	172
Stolen Bases	26	47	51
ERA	8.28	4.54	7.54
Complete Games	10	4	5
Hits Allowed	281	223	273
Runs Allowed	194	139	234
Earned Runs	146	108	150
Walks Allowed	77	92	125
Strikeouts	84	190	105