G-MAC CHAMPIONS!!!!! Baseball Earns North Division Title

OVERVIEW – FINDLAY

SCORES: Findlay Oilers 7, Northwood Timberwolves 4/Northwood 10, Findlay 3
RECORDS: Northwood 31-19, 25-7 G-MAC, Findlay 24-25, 17-13 G-MAC
LOCATION: Gerace Stadium – Midland, Mich.
RECAP: Northwood baseball claims the G-MAC North Division championship and the top seed at the G-MAC Tournament by splitting a pair of games against Findlay Saturday (May 3), with UF taking game one and NU winning game two 10-3.

GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS (SEVEN INNINGS)

• Findlay was the better team early in the game, scoring two in the third and one in the fourth to go up 4-0.
• Northwood responded in the bottom of the fourth, starting with an RBI single from Ben DeVries.
• Josh Getz then made it 4-2 with an RBI single.
• A wild pitch cut the Oiler lead to 4-3, which was followed by a Drew Charters RBI single that tied the score 4-4.
• The score remained tied 4-4 into the seventh inning when Findlay plated three runs.
• Northwood was unable to score in the final inning, giving the Oilers the win.

GAME ONE STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 4/9/2, Findlay 7/8/0
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 6, Findlay: 7
• Winning Pitcher – Camdon Tuttle (3-0): 3 2/3 IP, 4 H, R, BB, 3 K
• Losing Pitcher – Grant LaMarche (2-6): 6 IP, 4 H, 5 R (3 ER), 2 BB, 11 K (career-high)

GAME ONE TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Drew Charters: 3-3, R, BB, 2 SB
• Getz: 2-3, R, RBI
• Logan Voth: 2-3, R, BB
• DeVries: 1-3, R, RBI

GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• For the first time in the four-game series, it was Northwood who got on the board first. Charters brought home a run in the bottom of the first with an RBI single.
• Ben Narr then drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 2-0 after one inning.
• Northwood then made it 3-0 in the second on a Landon Kempainen RBI single.
• Brendan Hammer extended the lead in the third with a run-scoring single to put NU on top 4-0.
• Findlay got one back in the top of the fourth to get within three.
• Northwood responded with an Alex Jarboe sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth to get the lead back to four at 5-1.
• The Oilers scored a pair in the fifth to get within two runs.
• NU kept the offense going in the sixth on a Charters RBI single.
• Northwood, which scored in every inning in the game except the fifth, put up three more runs in the seventh. Getz made it 7-3 on an RBI single.
• Peyton Guilbeaux added to the lead with an RBI single, which was followed by a successful double steal with Guilbeaux and Myles Beale that put the score at 9-3.
• Northwood rounded out the scoring in the bottom of the eighth on a Matthew Meyer RBI single that made the final 10-3.

GAME TWO STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors Northwood: 10/13/0, Findlay: 3/8/2
• Runners Left on Base: Northwood: 11, Findlay: 11
• Winning Pitcher – Connor Foley (4-2): 5 IP, 7 H, 3 R, BB, 4 K
• Losing Pitcher – Sebastian Stevens (1-2): 3 IP, 6 H, 4 R (3 ER), 3 BB, 4 K
• Save – Cody Matuz (1): 4 IP, H, 5 BB, 8 K

GAME TWO TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Beale: 1-2, 3 BB, 4 R
• Kempainen: 2-2, R, RBI
• Charters: 2-4, 2 RBI, BB
• Getz: 2-5, 2B, 2 R, RBI

NORTHWOOD NOTES

• This is the fourth regular season championship of any kind in program history, all of which have occurred in the last nine season (2017, 2018, 2023, 2025).
• Brad Baldwin is the third coach to win a title at Northwood, joining Jordan Bischel (2017, 2018) and Jake Sabol (2023).

UP NEXT

• Northwood will be the No. 1 seed for the upcoming G-MAC Tournament May 7-10 at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio.