As the OVC continues to build its baseball tradition, conference players are certainly giving the rest of the nation reason to take notice.
The OVC currently leads all DI conferences in scoring and home runs per game. In scoring, the OVC is averaging 7.67 runs per game followed by the ACC with 7.74, Sun Belt with 7.62, Atlantic Sun with 7.58 and SEC with 7.52.
In home runs per game, the OVC is averaging 1.18 followed by the SEC with 1.14, 1.13 by the WAC, 1.12 by the SoCon and 1.09 by the ACC.
In these offensive categories Tennessee Tech's A.J. Kirby-Jones, Murray State's Wes Cunningham and Morehead State's J.D. Ashbrook are certainly contributing to the statistics. Perhaps most impressive for the OVC is its lead in the home run category. Kirby-Jones leads the nation with 15 home runs as he hit his 15th Tuesday in a win against Lipscomb. Cunningham is second in the nation with 13 dingers while Ashbrook sits in the sixth hole and has belted 12 HR's.
Cunningham is leaving his mark in other categories as well as he leads the nation in slugging percentage with a .955 while standing in second in the nation in total bases with 105.5. He is also third in the nation in home runs per game, averaging .48 a contest.
Kirby-Jones leads the nation in home runs a contest hitting .5 and is tied with East Tennessee's Paul Hoilman.
Right now SEMO leads the conference with a 5-1 OVC record and 18-10 overall record. Morehead State is also 5-1 in conference with a 16-12 overall record and sits in second. The top two teams are followed by Murray State in third with a 4-2, 16-12 record and Austin Peay in fourth with a 3-3, 16-12 record.
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