BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University baseball team will head into the final week of the regular season with four games on the schedule. BGSU will begin the week at Toledo in a non-conference game, set for a 3 p.m. first pitch on Tuesday (May 13) at Scott Park. From there, the Falcons will transition back home to Steller Field, hosting Northern Illinois in the final regular season series. BGSU and NIU will play Thursday, Friday, Saturday (May 15-17) with Saturday's game marking Senior Day for the Orange and Brown. Tuesday and Saturday will be streamed on BCSN with a simulcast on ESPN+ while Thursday will be available to watch on YouTube. As always, home games at Steller Field will be free to attend. Any schedule changes will be announced on BGSUFalcons.com as well as Twitter/X (@BGSU_Baseball). 

Current Week Schedule
Tuesday, May 13 | at Toledo | 3 p.m. | Scott Park | BCSN/ESPN+
Thursday, May 15 | vs. Northern Illinois | 3 p.m. | Steller Field | YouTube
Friday, May 16 | vs. Northern Illinois | 1 p.m. | Steller Field
Saturday, May 17 | vs. Northern Illinois | 1 p.m. | Steller Field | BCSN/ESPN+ | Senior Day

What To Watch For

• Saturday's regular season finale will also be Senior Day for the Falcons with BGSU recognizing seven seniors - Antillon, Ganun, Good, Horky, Parker, Penrod and Roder.
• With this being the final week of the regular season, the Falcons will know their MAC Tournament situation by the end of this week's games. BGSU is locked into the No. 4 or No. 5 seed, setting their first game for May 21 at 6 p.m. Further details are in the section below.
• Bowling Green sits at 31 wins this year with four games left in the regular season plus postseason play. The program record for wins in a year is currently set at 36, accomplished by the 1977, 1999 and 2001 squads. Last year, BGSU won 33 games. 
• The Falcons are currently tied for 35th in the nation and sit at second in the MAC for sacrifice flies this season with 28. Garrett Wright leads the way with six. 

MAC Tournament Outlook
The Falcons have already punched their ticket to the MAC Tournament, but the exact seed for Bowling Green is yet to be determined. BGSU will be either the No. 4 or No. 5 seed, depending on results this weekend, locking them into the 6 p.m. game on Wednesday, May 21 in Avon. A BGSU win will secure the No. 4 seed for the Falcons. With tiebreaker scenarios, both Toledo and Central Michigan are still in play as first round opponents for the Falcons as well. Further details into each scenario are listed below. 

BGSU's Path To No. 4 Seed vs. Toledo
    - A BGSU win OR Toledo loss
    - Toledo avoids being swept by Central Michigan
BGSU's Path To No. 4 Seed vs. Central Michigan
    - Central Michigan sweeps Toledo 
    - Western Michigan loss to Ohio
BGSU's Path To No. 5 Seed vs. Toledo
    - BGSU swept by NIU
    - Toledo sweeps Central Michigan

Scouting Toledo
Since the last meeting between Bowling Green and Toledo, the Rockets have posted a record of 3-1, topping Youngstown State while taking two of three from Northern Illinois. The win over Youngstown State marked last week's midweek contest on May 7, topping the Penguins 12-1. As for the weekend series, NIU took the first game, 4-2, but Toledo claimed the next two games to win the series while outscoring the Huskies 13-5 over the two contests. For the year, Toledo holds a record of 25-27 while being 14-13 within the MAC.

Series History Against The Rockets

• Bowling Green and Toledo will be concluding the season series, marking the fourth meeting this year and the 243rd meeting all-time between the two. BGSU holds the advantage currently with a record of 140-102.
• The game between the Falcons and Rockets will be a non-conference contest, marking the final non-conference game of the regular season for Bowling Green.
• BGSU took the first meeting this year between the teams, winning 8-3 at Fifth Third Field on May 2, but Toledo claimed both games of a doubleheader at Scott Park on May 3 with 8-3 and 8-1 final scores in the games.  

Scouting Northern Illinois
The Huskies enter the week with a 20-31 overall standing while being 8-19 against MAC opponents. With no midweek on the schedule, the next contest for NIU will be the weekend slate against BGSU. NIU is coming off a series against Toledo, taking the first game but losing the three-game series. Prior to Toledo, NIU topped Illinois State in a midweek game with a 6-4 final. Other notable conference wins for the Huskies have included a 2-1 win over Purdue on April 1 and a 27-11 win over Northwestern in seven innings on April 15. 

Series History Against The Huskies

• Bowling Green and Northern Illinois have met 71 times previously, dating back to the 1968 season, with the Falcons holding the all-time advantage with a record of 43-27-1, including wins in five of the last six. 
• Last year, the Falcons swept the series against NIU in DeKalb. The 2023 series, played in Bowling Green, went to BGSU, winning two of three. The last time Bowling Green swept NIU at home was during the 2008 season.
• The series against the Huskies will mark the regular season finale, BGSU's final test before the MAC Tournament starts next week. 

Strikingly Close To Repeating History
For the second straight year, the Falcons have a chance to break the program record for strikeouts in a season as a team. After the record stood for 25 years with the 1999 team striking out 368 batters, the 2024 BGSU squad broke the record with 403 strikeouts. Now, the 2025 team is within range to do it again. This year's team has tallied 387 strikeouts so far this season, needing 16 to match the record. Over the last week of games, the Falcon pitching staff registered 29 strikeouts over the four games. Jacob Turner has led the way for BGSU with 48 strikeouts followed by Landon Willeman with 40. 

Falcons Nearing Program Milestone
As a team, Bowling Green is sitting just three wins away from checking off program win 1,800. Dating back to 1915 with the first varsity season in 1918, the Falcons have currently won 1,797 baseball games during the program's history. The 1,700 milestone was reached during the 2022 campaign, leaving what would be three years between milestones if BGSU hits the mark. The three-year span ties for the shortest time span between milestones in program history with three years being the difference between milestones five times previously. The most recent was between wins 1,400 and 1,500 which came in 2007 and 2010. The last 121 wins for BGSU have come under Head Coach Kyle Hallock with the previous 723 victories being under Danny Schmitz over his 30 years at the helm of the program.

Horky's Hitting Streak
Zack Horky is in the midst of a 13-game hitting streak for the Falcons, the longest hitting streak by a BGSU player this season. Horky now sits two games away from adding his name to the BGSU record book. Currently, the record book has eight names under the longest hitting streaks in a season with the last spot being occupied by DJ Newman's 15 from the 2024 season. For Horky, he's batting .375 (21-for-56) during the streak with 15 RBI, eight runs scored and four doubles. Horky also currently leads the team with the longest active on-base streak, sitting at 20 games. 

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