Baseball Treks to WashU for Weekend Series

Titans enter the midway point of opening road trip

3/4/2026 2:00:00 PM

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.- The Illinois Wesleyan University baseball team continues its road trip with a stop at No. 12 WashU, Saturday-Sunday, March 7-8, at Kyle Field.

The Titans and Bears will clash in a three-game set with a doubleheader played Saturday, March 7. The first pitch of the two-game day will be thrown at 11 a.m, with Sunday's action to start at 12 p.m. Illinois Wesleyan enters the ranked match up 1-5, as WashU puts its undefeated 6-0 mark on the line.

The Green and White is coming off a weekend in Memphis, Tenn., in which it dropped a game to DePauw University and a pair to Rhodes College. Sophomore Ben Ford (Naperville, Ill.-Waubonsie Valley) led the team in hitting for the week with a .416 average. Holding a hit in every game so far, Ford recorded a team-high five hits over the weekend with a pair of multi-hit games. Junior Eli Kieser (Normal, Ill.-University High School) tallied his first three-hit game of his career. The junior college transfer went 3-for-4 in the finale against Rhodes and added a hit the day prior. Sophomore AJ Weller (Geneseo, Ill.-Geneseo) finished the weekend with four hits in 11 at-bats and added two RBI's with a run scored. Weller's team-leading batting average sits at .542 after a .364 weekend.

WashU opened its season at the Babe Howard Classic in Milligan, Tenn., knocking off No. 15 Webster and Benedictine in seven innings. The Bears also took care of College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin foe Millikin University, 3-1, and most recently swept Coe College to begin the month of March.

This weekend's game will mark the 70th all-time meeting between the Titans and Bears. Meeting for the first time back in 1990, IWU holds a slim all-time advantage of 35-34. In three games against the Bears, head coach Michael Kellar is 1-2 all-time as WashU took the first 2-of-3 in last year's series. The Green and White avoided the sweep behind a big day from Cade Tomhave, who went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, to hand the Bears their first loss. Ford and then-freshman Matt Hudik (Frankfort, Ill.-Lincoln-Way East) also recorded a multi-hit day, while now-senior Jake Pullam (Palatine, Ill.-Palatine) earned the win with six solid innings.

IWU and WashU have met in three different locations, most prominently in St. Louis, Mo. The two also met in the 2012 NCAA Tournament as IWU knocked out WashU in Millington, Tenn. The series was last played in Bloomington in 2012 with Illinois Wesleyan winning nine of the 12 games at home.

This weekend's series will get underway at 11 a.m from Kyle Field, Saturday, March 7. The three-game set will be streamed behind a paywall on FloSports. The subscription can be purchased for $19.99 a month and holds an annual subscription of $8.99, resulting in $107.88 over the twelve months. WashU will provide live stats which can be found here.

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