BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Completing their home-and-home season series, the Oakland Golden Grizzlies will make the approximately 115-mile trip down Interstate 75 to clash with the Mid-American Conference's (MAC) Bowling Green Falcons at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3 at Steller Field.

Defeating the Wright State Raiders in the finale of their three-game set in Rochester on Sunday, Oakland will enter Wednesday at 19-25 (11-10), good for third in the Horizon League, while the Falcons are 15-25 (9-15), tying them with the Akron Zips for eighth in the MAC.

GAME SETUP

• Who – Oakland (19-25, 11-10 Horizon League) at Bowling Green (15-25, 9-15 MAC)
• When – Wednesday, May 3 at 3 p.m.
• Where – Bowling Green, Ohio (Steller Field)
• Live Stats – BGSUFalcons.com
• Twitter – @OaklandBSB & @BGSU_Baseball

SERIES HISTORY

• Overall Record – Bowling Green leads, 19-6 (1979-2023)
• Record in Bowling Green – Falcons lead, 14-5 (1979-2019)
• Current Streak – Bowling Green W1 (April 18, 2023)
• Record Since Oakland Transitioned to the NCAA Division I level in 1998 – Bowling Green leads, 11-5 (2000-23)

SCHEDULED STARTING PITCHERS

• Oakland – Junior LHP Jake Matthaidess: 15 games (3 starts), 1-0, 11.17 ERA, 2.33 WHIP, .357 BAA, 19.1 IP, 30 H, 24 ER, 15 BB, 14 SO
• Bowling Green – Freshman RHP DJ Newman: 11 games (0 starts), 1-1, 5.54 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, .302 BAA, 13 IP, 16 H, 8 ER, 2 BB, 18 SO

OAKLAND OVERVIEW

• Hitting safely in two of his last three games, junior designated hitter Ryan Dykstra, a Grand Rapids Community College transfer in his first season with the Golden Grizzlies, is slashing .271/.351/.479 with three home runs, tied with senior outfielder Ian Cleary for fifth-most on the club, and 13 RBI
• Set to make his fourth start of the campaign, Wednesday will be Matthaidess' third consecutive start against a MAC school, as he picked up his first win over the Eastern Michigan Eagles on April 19 and faced the Central Michigan Chippewas in Mount Pleasant on April 25
• Earning Horizon League Pitcher of the Week on April 25, junior right-hander Brandon Decker continued to add to a potentially All-Conference season by holding Wright State to one run over 4.1 innings with four strikeouts on Sunday for his team-leading fifth win

BOWLING GREEN OVERVIEW

• The MAC Pitcher of the Year as a senior with the Kent State Golden Flashes in 2011 and a 10^th-round draft pick by the Houston Astros later that year, the Falcons are led by Kyle Hallock, who – like Oakland's Jordon Banfield – is in his third season at the helm
• Both hitting .324, Belleville senior catcher Kyle Gurney (45-139), a Dearborn Divine Child product, and Archbold, Ohio's Newman (24-74), a two-way player, are Bowling Green's two players above the .300 mark
• Lagrange, Ohio sophomore center fielder Nathan Archer has shown the most pop for the Falcons in 2023 with a club-best seven home runs, while Gurney, Shaker Heights, Ohio senior third baseman Nathan Rose and Greenwich, Ohio freshman second baseman Sam Seidel have five apiece