Purdue Fort Wayne
21-16
Holy Cross (Ind.)
26-18
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Pease, Brandon (1-3)
L: Ereu, Darwing (2-5)
Batting:
2B: Clancy, Stephen 1 ; Reed, Bryan 1 ; Desimone, Corleone 1
HR: Lanning, Jacob 1 ; Goodale, Tommy 1 ; Ereu, Darwing 1
RBI: Lanning, Jacob 2 ; Goodale, Tommy 2 ; Reed, Bryan 2 ; Hinton, Jordan 1 ; Ereu, Darwing 1
SF: Hinton, Jordan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Clancy, Stephen 1 ; McNamara, Colin 1 ; Lanning, Jacob 3 ; Goodale, Tommy 1 ; Desimone, Corleone 1 ; Ereu, Darwing 1
SB: Kappaz, Paul 1
Batting:
2B: Soat, Brandon 1 ; VanSumeren, Evan 1 ; Trevino, Shane 1 ; Kaiser, Greg 3
3B: Kaiser, Greg 1
HR: Soat, Brandon 1 ; Whitman, Kendall 1 ; Baker, Shannon 1
RBI: Soat, Brandon 3 ; VanSumeren, Evan 2 ; Whitman, Kendall 2 ; Trevino, Shane 3 ; Logan, Brock 3 ; Kaiser, Greg 5 ; Baker, Shannon 2 ; Timmerman, Jon 1 ; Delgadillo, Chris 1
SF: Trevino, Shane 1 ; Logan, Brock 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Soat, Brandon 4 ; VanSumeren, Evan 2 ; Whitman, Kendall 4 ; Trevino, Shane 3 ; Logan, Brock 1 ; Wilson, Grant 1 ; Kaiser, Greg 3 ; Baker, Shannon 1 ; Valenzuela-Reece, Jonathan 2 ; Boyce, Jackson 3
SB: VanSumeren, Evan 1
Game Leaders
Players Mentioned
Offense Erupts in Win over Saints
4/21/2015 6:49:00 PM | Baseball
Greg Kaiser was a perfect 5-for-5 with three runs scored and five RBI's. Brandon Soat was 3-for-5, as four others - Evan VanSumeren, Kendall Whitman, Brock Logan, and Jackson Boyce - had two hits in the game. Soat and Whitman each scored four times, while Trevino, Kaiser, and Boyce scored three times. Soat, Trevino, and Logan each knocked in three runs.
Brandon Pease picked up his first win of the season, improving to 1-3 on the year, striking out five in relief and giving up one hit and one walk.
With the wind blowing out to right field, the Saints struck first with a one-out two-run home run in the top of the first inning, before the Mastodons responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning, using back-to-back one-out walks from VanSumeren and Whitman. A Trevino double scored VanSumeren, before Logan hit a sacrifice fly to score Whitman. Kaiser answered with an infield single to score Trevino, and give IPFW a 3-2 lead.
Holy Cross answered with a one-out home run in the top of the second, before the Mastodons sent 10 batters to the plate, scoring five times in the bottom half of the inning, taking a lead that the hosts would not relinquish for the remainder of the game. Boyce opened the inning with an infield single before Soat doubled, moving Boyce to third. With VanSumeren at the plate, Boyce scored on a balk, before a Whitman single pushed across Soat. A Kaiser triple scored Trevino and Whitman, before scoring on a Holy Cross error a batter later.
After the visitors hit their third one-out home run of the game, this one a two-run shot, and another run later closed the gap to 8-6, IPFW added one run on a sacrifice fly from Trevino to push ahead 9-6.
After the first 1-2-3 inning of the game in the top of the fourth, IPFW scored seven runs to put a solid margin in the score. Kaiser opened with a leadoff double, before Shannon Baker hit a two-run home run to right field to put the Mastodons ahead 11-6. A walk and a single put two runners on before Soat homered to right field, driving in three and taking the margin to 14-6. After a strikeout, Whitman hit the first pitch he saw i n his next at bat over the fence in right field. After a groundout and Logan single, Kaiser knocked his second double of the inning to score Logan, and put the Mastodons ahead 16-6.
Another efficient inning by Pease set the table for the bottom of the fifth inning, in which the Mastodons scored eight times and sent 12 batters to the plate. A VanSumeren double scored two, before Trevino walked with the bases loaded driving in another. A Logan single scored two, before Kaiser hit his third consecutive double - and the third over the previous two innings - scoring one. Jon Timmermen followed with a single scoring Grant Wilson. A Chris Delgadillo infield single drove in IPFW's 24th and final run in the game.
After a scoreless sixth inning, Holy Cross scored twice in the top of the seventh; however, the game was stopped after the top of the seventh with IPFW holding a 24-8 lead.
Eleven different players had a hit, ten scored a run, and nine drove in a run. The 21 hits are tied for a season-high, while the 20 runs are the second time this season that IPFW has eclipsed the 20-run plateau in a game (along with February 22 against Murray State).
The game also puts an end to a stretch of 17 consecutive games in which IPFW did not leave the state of Indiana, and played 15 times at home.
The squad returns to action on Friday, April 24, when the squad faces off against the Omaha Mavericks in the first game of a three-game series.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
