Leading Off
FARGO, N.D. - Omaha baseball (19-27, 12-15 Summit League) hits the road for its final regular season series at North Dakota State (16-31, 12-15 Summit League) as it is set to play three games ahead of postseason play next week.
Around the Horn
- The Mavericks clinched a berth to the 2025 Summit League Baseball Championship, which will be held in Omaha, Neb., during last week's series with South Dakota State.
- Omaha enters the series with the conference's second-best team batting average (.282).
- Henry Zipay still sits atop the Summit League's leaderboard in average (.397) and on-base percentage (0.488) in the regular season's final week of play.
- Zipay is on a 29-game on-base streak and is accompanied by Jackson Trout's 19-game hit streak, that were both extended on Tuesday night against Creighton.
- Also, the leader in triples in 2025, Zipay hit one in the first inning against the Bluejays on Tuesday evening.
- Zipay (69) and Trout (66) sit third and fourth in the league's hit leaders, respectively.
- Tyler Bishop is two away from 50 RBIs this season; only two hitters in the conference have 50 or more.
- Ben Weber is one away from earning his 20th strikeout by a batter looking. He enters the series sitting with the fourth-most.
Scouting North Dakota State
- Nolan Johnson (69) and Logan Knight (62) sit in third and fourth, respectively, for the most strikeouts by Summit League pitchers in 2025.
- Jake Schaffner sits behind Zipay for the second-best average in the league (.385).
- Schaffner also leads the Summit League with 77 hits.
