Second-Team All-MAC selection Caden Konczak is batting .307 with a team-leading 10 home runs this season.
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Rockets Begin MAC Tournament with Matchup Against Rival Falcons
5/20/2025 3:28:00 PM | Baseball, Battle of I-75
Toledo and Bowling Green facing off in Avon, Ohio on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.
TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo baseball team begins the 2025 Mid-American Conference Tournament in Avon, Ohio against Bowling Green on Wednesday, May 21. First pitch from Crushers Stadium will be at 6:00 p.m. on ESPN+.
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The winner will advance to play against No. 1 seed Miami at 2:00 p.m. or No. 2 seed Kent State at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The loser will face the loser of No. 6 seed Eastern Michigan and No. 3 Ball State at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday.
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Toledo (28-27, 17-13 MAC) comes in as one of the hottest teams entering the tournament, posting a 12-3 record across its final 15 MAC games. Toledo finished the regular season on a five-game winning streak. The Rockets swept Central Michigan over the weekend, as the offense exploded for 48 runs and 54 hits, as Toledo out-scored CMU 48-12 in the weekend series.
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Bowling Green (33-20, 19-11 MAC) finished the regular season by winning 2-of-3 games against Northern Illinois with a 5-4 win on Friday and a 4-2 win on Saturday.
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The Rockets took 2-of-3 games in the regular-season series, winning 8-3 and 8-1 in a doubleheader at Scott Park on May 3.
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Leading Off
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The winner will advance to play against No. 1 seed Miami at 2:00 p.m. or No. 2 seed Kent State at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The loser will face the loser of No. 6 seed Eastern Michigan and No. 3 Ball State at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday.
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Toledo (28-27, 17-13 MAC) comes in as one of the hottest teams entering the tournament, posting a 12-3 record across its final 15 MAC games. Toledo finished the regular season on a five-game winning streak. The Rockets swept Central Michigan over the weekend, as the offense exploded for 48 runs and 54 hits, as Toledo out-scored CMU 48-12 in the weekend series.
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Bowling Green (33-20, 19-11 MAC) finished the regular season by winning 2-of-3 games against Northern Illinois with a 5-4 win on Friday and a 4-2 win on Saturday.
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The Rockets took 2-of-3 games in the regular-season series, winning 8-3 and 8-1 in a doubleheader at Scott Park on May 3.
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Toledo vs. Bowling Green – MAC Tournament Day 1, Game 2
Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 p.m., ESPN+
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 Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 p.m., ESPN+
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Leading Off
- Toledo makes its second-straight appearance in the MAC Tournament and third under Rob Reinstetle.
- Toledo is 3-4 in MAC Tournament games in its last two trips. Last season's two wins in the tournament marked the first time Toledo has won multiple games in the tournament since 2013.
- UT and BG will play in the MAC Tournament for the first time since 2013, when the Falcons eliminated the Rockets in a 1-0 decision.
- Troy Sudbrook was named the MAC Player of the Week after hitting .667 with two home runs, 10 RBIs and eight runs scored in the Central Michigan series.
- Brady Sasse was named the MAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year, while pitcher Jacob Tabor was named First-Team All-MAC. Sasse and outfielder Caden Konczak took second-team honors.
- Tabor was named to an All-MAC team for the second-consecutive season after a second-team selection in 2024. Konczak and Sasse each earned their first selections.
- Sasse's selections as Freshman Pitcher of the Year marks the second time Toledo has taken a major MAC pitching award. The other time was when Jeremy Griffith took the award in 1999.
- Toledo set season highs with 21 runs vs. CMU last Thursday and 22 hits vs. the Chippewas last Friday.
- Cole Cahill enters the tournament on a 13-game hitting streak, a season high among all Rocket hitters.
- Charlie Scholvin's .484 on-base percentage puts him fifth in the league. He has been hit by 31 pitches this season, the most in the league and third in Division I.
- Caden Konczak's 10 home runs leads the team and is tied for 17th in the league.
- Luke Leto has put together six-straight multi-hit games dating back to the Northern Illinois series, hitting 16-for-26 (.615) in that span. He is tied for ninth in the MAC with 11 stolen bases.
- Toledo holds the lowest ERA (5.13), batting average (.260) and hits allowed (459) in the league this season.
- Rocket pitching has given up five or fewer runs in each of its last nine games.
- Four pitchers – Braden Curry (3.26), Jacob Tabor (3.35), RJ Shunck (3.63) and Brady Sasse (3.68) – each have ERAs below 4.00 entering Wednesday.
- Jacob Tabor has pitched 11.0 scoreless innings over his last two starts, with five hitless innings in his outing against Central Michigan.
- Logan Jones'Â four saves are tied for the seventh-most in the league.
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