By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Washburn University baseball will finish up the 2025 regular season with a three-game series against Newman, beginning on Friday at 5 p.m. and wrapping things up on Sunday with a 1 p.m. first pitch and 12 p.m. Senior Day ceremony.
Washburn baseball will wrap up its 2025 regular season with a three-game weekend MIAA series against Newman. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
On Saturday beginning at 1:30 p.m. there will be a ceremony to re-name WU's stadium Falley Field at Steve Anson Stadium in honor of the late Steve Anson, the winningest coach in Washburn baseball history.
Washburn fell to 23-24 overall and 15-18 in the MIAA after losing 9-2 to No. 3 Central Missouri on Wednesday.
Newman enters the weekend 10-30 overall and 6-24 in the MIAA after falling 12-6 to No. 23 Fort Hays State.
The Ichabods are 12-7 at Falley Field this season while going 10-14 in road contests and 1-3 in neutral site games.
At the plate the Ichabods are hitting .313 with a .410 OB% and a .533 SLG%. Washburn has hit 84 home runs with 105 doubles.
The pitching staff has a 7.41 ERA with 320 strikeouts across 404.2 innings with a 1.41 WHIP. The Ichabods have allowed 452 hits and issued 295 walks.
Washburn has a .963 fielding percentage on the year, turning 32 double plays with 63 total errors.
WU is 7-5 in games against NCBWA nationally ranked opponents this season.
Owen Laessig has the current longest hitting streak for Washburnat eight games after Jackson Mervosh had his 16-game streak come to an end. Cash Jay had the longest of any Ichabod player this season at 17 games.
Jett Buck leads the team with 16 games of recording multiple RBI with two games with five or more driven in.
Buck is hitting .360 while starting in all 47 games. He has a team-high 19 home runs on the year with 62 RBI, also tops on the team. He ranks first in the MIAA and 11th nationally in hits and is second in the conference and sixth in the nation in home runs. He is also third in the MIAA in RBI and fourth in SLG%.
Across 10 starts Caleb Lunnon has thrown 54.2 innings, compiling a 4-0 record with a 4.61 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP. He has 37 strikeouts on the year and has thrown just one wild pitch with one hit batter.
Newman is hitting .284 as a team with a .384 OB% and a .423 SLG%. The Jets have 33 home runs with 315 strikeouts and 188 walks.
Trent Trammell is hitting a team-high .376 while playing in 39 games and starting in 37. He has two home runs with 20 RBI to go along with six stolen bases.
Washburn leads the all-time series against Newman, 28-24.
The Ichabods are 16-6 against the Jets at Falley Field.
Washburn will have over a week off before beginning the MIAA Tournament on Wednesday, May 7, in Joplin, Mo. at Warren Turner Field.
Seeding for the tournament will be finalized after next week's games. The Ichabods could fall anywhere between No. 5 and No. 10 in the seeding.
