BOX SCORES AND PLAY-BY-PLAY:
Game 1: Missouri S&T 8, USI 6
Game 2: USI 12, Missouri S&T 6
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The 15th-ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team finished the 2010 home schedule by splitting a doubleheader with Missouri University of Science and Technology Sunday afternoon at the USI Baseball Field. Missouri S&T took the opener, 8-6, while USI won the nightcap, 12-6.
The Screaming Eagles, who finish the home schedule 19-6 in 2010, take their record to 34-10 overall and 20-4 in the GLVC. The Miners go to 13-29, 10-14 GLVC.
In the 12-6 nightcap victory, the Eagles exploded for 14 hits as they recorded their ninth double-digit hit game in the last 11 contests. Junior catcher Dylan Mooney (St. Charles, Missouri) started the USI scoring barrage in first inning with his team-best 11th home run, a two-run blast.
The Eagles would go on to score four in the first, one in the second, four in the third, and three in the fourth. Senior third baseman Wes Fink (Clarksville, Tennessee) had a team-best four RBIs in the nightcap, while Mooney and sophomore second baseman Brad Vance (Louisville, Kentucky) had three RBIs each.
USI junior right-hander Josh Schultze (Evansville, Indiana) gave the Eagles nine innings to get his fifth win and second complete game of the year. Schultze (5-2) allowed 10 hits and six runs (four earned), while striking out three. He set down 10 of the last 11 batters in the game.
In the opener, the Miners scored twice in the top of the seventh to defeat the Eagles, 8-6. USI, which held a brief 6-5 lead in the bottom of the fourth, had battled back from deficits of 4-0 and 5-1 to have a chance at the win.
Junior leftfielder Michael Huling (South Bend, Indiana) led the Eagles at the plate in game one, going four-for-four with a run scored and one RBI, while senior rightfielder Caleb Ehmke (Waterloo, Indiana) was two-for-two with three-run home run and four total RBIs in the opener.
Huling had a team-best six hits in the doubleheader with three doubles, one run scored, and two RBIs in the two games. USI, as a team, scored 46 runs and had 60 hits in the four-game series with Missouri S&T.
On the mound, senior pitcher/infielder Wandy Rosario (Boston Massachusetts) took the loss in relief. Rosario (2-2) pitched the final 2.2 innings, allowing the two runs in the seventh on a pair of hits and two walks.
USI senior right-hander Casey Geiger (Albion, Indiana) started for the first time in three starts, going the first three innings. Geiger allowed seven hits and five runs, four in the first inning, while striking out one.
Prior to Sunday's game, USI honored its six seniors -- Kevin O'Hair, Kyle Rowley, Fink, Rosario, Geiger, and Ehmke.
USI are scheduled to play the remainder of its 2010 regular season schedule, 11 games, on the road, beginning at the University of Evansville for the “Battle at the Braun” Tuesday at 6 p.m.
