ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Oakland baseball team enters the 2019 Horizon League Tournament as the No. 5 seed and will face No. 4 seed Northern Kentucky on Wed., May 22 at noon. The game will be broadcast live from Nischwitz Stadium located on the campus of No. 1 seed Wright State on ESPN+.
 
Oakland Projected Starter:
RHP #33 Nick Parr
 
Northern Kentucky Projected Starter:
LHP #37 Sam Williams
 
Notes:
- Beau Keathley earned All-Horizon League First Team honors, Mario Camilletti was named to the Second Team while Andrew Hoffmann and Cherokee LeBeau were All-Freshmen Team selections as voted on the by league's head coaches and announced by the league office on Tuesday.
 
- Matt DiLeo, Ryan Fitzgerald, Ronnie Krsolovic and Myles Zilinsky were among four student-athletes named to the 2019 Horizon League Baseball All-Academic Team announced by the league office on last week. This marks the second consecutive season Oakland has placed the league's highest amount of selections on the team
 
- Oakland is 2-7 all time in Horizon League Tournament play. Last season, the No. 4 seed Golden Grizzlies fell to No. 5 YSU in the opening round to end the season. During the 2017 season, Oakland went 2-2 marking the second time in the Division I era the Golden Grizzlies won multiple conference tournament games since 2000 as members of the Summit League
 
A look at the Norse:
- NKU earned the No. 4 seed finishing fourth in the conference standings at 12-18 with a 14-40 overall mark.
 
NKU Season Series Rewind:
- May 4-5: Oakland was swept at NKU after losing in heartbreaking fashion in the series opener, 11-10, despite Mike McGee and Blake Griffith each connecting on a three-run homer. With the Golden Grizzlies leading 10-7 in the top of the ninth inning with two outs, NKU was able to load the based with a walk and a pair of singles. Andrew Bacon then hit a deep fly ball off the left center field wall and was able to round the bases and score on a rare inside the park grand slam home run giving the Norse a 11-10 lead they would not relinquish.
 
- Jace Matkin, Matt DiLeo, Blake Griffith and Mario Camilletti each hit a home run as Oakland dropped a doubleheader at NKU, 12-3, 14-3. On the day, Camilletti hit 4-for-7 coming a triple short of the cycle in the second game with a two-run home run, double and single. Matkin, Griffith and DiLeo each recorded two hits with a RBI and run. Austin Tangney, Mike McGee, Cherokee LeBeau and Myles Zilinsky also accounted for a hit each.
 
- March 29-31: Drew Demumbrum swung a hot bat hitting .455 (5-for-11) with two doubles, a triple and five RBI with a .818 slugging percentage to lead Oakland to its second straight series win at NKU. In the opener, he was a home run away from hitting for the cycle going 3-for-3 with a triple, double and single with three RBI in the Golden Grizzlies 8-5 win. In the 3-2 setback, he accounted for both of Oakland's runs going 2-for-3 with an RBI double.
 
- Nick Parr went 6.0 innings allowing only three hits with three runs and five strikeouts to pick up his first win of the season at NKU with Austin Sherry also picking up his first save of the season
 
- Beau Keathley picked up his second consecutive win going 6.0 innings with eight strikeouts allowing no runs and only three scattered hits in Oakland's 4-0 win at NKU which secured the team's second straight league series
 
Last time out in league play:
- Oakland was swept by regular season league champion and No. 1 seed Wright State. Myles Zilinsky went a combined 5-for-7 with a home run, double, RBI and three runs scored for a staggering 1.286 slugging percentage while Mario Camilletti went 4-for-7 with four runs and two RBI as Oakland fell 28-10 and 4-3 in doubleheader action to open the series. Defensively, catcher Mike McGee was the star of the second game as he threw out four runners caught stealing.
 
Camilletti hit 2-for-4, recording two RBI and walking once while Ronnie Krsolovic also registered two hits and scored two runs in the Golden Grizzlies 11-3 setback in the series finale on senior day.
 
Behind the plate:
- Matt DiLeo has reached base in 36 consecutive games and leads the team hitting (.323), hits (52), runs scored (33), home runs (6), triples (2 - 8th Horizon League), slugging percentage (.478) and total bases (72). He ranks second stolen bases (11 – 9th HL) and on base percentage (.442 – 9th HL) and third in walks (27), RBI (26).
 
- He is also second with a team-best 12 multi-hit games with four 3-hit games.
 
- Mario Camilletti leads the team in walks (46 – 3rd HL, 24th nationally and 15th nationally in base-on balls per game at 0.98), doubles (10) and on-base percentage (.458 – 5th HL). He also ranks second in batting average (.305), hits (51) and runs (32), third in stolen bases (10) and slugging percentage (.401) and fourth in RBI (23).
 
- He leads the team with 14 multi-hits games 10 of which with two hits, four with three hits and recorded six RBI at Morehead State (2/21) and five at Eastern Michigan (4/3).
 
- Blake Griffith also leads the team in home runs (6 - 10th Horizon League) while ranking second in RBI (31), total bases (73) and slugging percentage (.462), third in hits (45), fourth in walks (23) and triples (1) and fifth in doubles (8)
 
- He has recorded five RBI twice against EKU and Milwaukee with six total multi-RBI games and posted a team third-best 10 multi-hit games including one 3-hit, one 4-hit game and eight 2-hit games.
 
- Drew Demumbrum leads the team in RBI (32), stolen bases (13 – 7th Horizon League), sacrifice flies (3 – T-10th HL) and at bats (174), ranks second in home runs (5), doubles (9), triples (1), fourth in slugging percentage (.385) and fifth in average (.236), hits (42), runs (25) and total bases (67)
 
- He has posted team-best eight multi-RBI games recording five at YSU and is third with 11 multi-hit games with seven 2-hit, three 3-hit, one 4-hit games
 
- Mike McGee also leads the team in at bats (174), ranks second on the team doubles (9), triples (1), fourth in hits (43) and runs (25) and fifth in stolen bases (5)
 
- Myles Zilinsky ranks second on the team in walks (40 – 6th Horizon League), third in runs (31) and home runs (5), fourth in doubles (7) and at bats (164) and fifth in RBI (20), total bases (60). He has nine multi-hit games with eight 2-hit and one 3-hit games.
 
On the mound:
- Beau Keathley leads the team and is fourth in the league in strikeouts (83) and has recorded double figure strikeouts twice this season at Morehead State (12) and at YSU (13). He also ranks 23rd nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (5.90).
 
- Keathley was named Nike® Horizon League Pitcher of the Week after earning his third straight win posting eight strikeouts allowing only one hit off a bunt and one unearned run in 7.0 innings of work to lead Oakland to a 3-1 victory over Milwaukee in the series finale (4/7). Earlier in the season, Keathley was named Nike® Horizon League Pitcher of the Week and was also selected as one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week after a dominant performance on the mound going the distance tossing a complete game shutout allowing only three scattered hits while posting a career-high 13 strikeouts to lead Oakland to an 8-0 series clinching win over Youngstown State (3/24). Keathley allowed just one hit in the first, second and ninth innings and retired 14 straight batters between the third and seventh innings.
 
- Andrew Hoffmann ranks third on the team in strikeouts (46) with 12 starts and 13 appearances. Hoffman posted a career-high nine strikeouts in 5.0 innings of work to record his first collegiate win in Oakland's 12-5 victory over Milwaukee (4/6). He picked up his second win of the season going 7.0 innings allowing only two unearned runs on four scattered hits with four strikeouts at UIC (4/20).
 
- After picking up his first win of the season at NKU, Nick Parr came out on top of a pitcher's duel picking up his second win of the season going 7.0 innings while not allowing a hit through five innings with four strikeouts in a 2-1 win against UIC. His picked up his third win going 6.0 innings allowing only two runs (one earned) with a season-high seven strikeouts leading Oakland to a 6-5 at Milwaukee.
 
- Austin Sherry leads the staff in saves (4) followed by Cameron Fuller (2)
 
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