GAME 1: USI 7, WCJ 2
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GAME 2: WJC 1, USI 0 (12 innings)
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LIBERTY, Mo. – The University of Southern Indiana baseball team and William Jewell College battled to a doubleheader split Saturday afternoon in Liberty, Missouri. The Screaming Eagles took the opening game, 7-2, while the Cardinals snagged the nightcap, 1-0, in 12 innings.
USI, which is starting an eight-game road swing, goes to 11-5 overall and 3-1 in the GLVC, while WJC ends the day 6-9, 4-2 GLVC.
USI sophomore rightfielder
Kyle Kempf (Evansville, Indiana) and junior right-hander
Ben Wright (Newburgh, Indiana) dominated as the Screaming Eagles took the opening game, 7-2.
Kempf provided the offense, going three-for-five with two RBIs and three runs scored. USI, overall, scored once in the first, twice in the third, and four in the seventh off of nine hits
Wright (2-1) made the Eagles' offense stand up as he won his second game of the year. He allowed two runs on four hits and two walks, while striking out four during nine-inning complete game. The junior right-hander also set down 15 of the last 17 batters he faced.
In the nightcap, WJC pitching limited USI to one hit through 12 innings and defeated the Eagles, 1-0. The Cardinals took advantage of an Eagle error in the 12
th to push the winning run across.
Pitching prevailed throughout game two as USI senior right-hander
Jonathon Wandling (Evansville, Indiana) and WJC junior left-hander Preston Felgate set the tone for the game. The pair matched hitless inning for hitless inning through six innings as neither team could generate any offense.
Wandling set down 28-of-34 batters through 7.1 innings, allowing just two hits and four walks. The senior also struck out five Cardinal batters. Felgate went even deeper into the game, holding USI to one hit and three walks through 10 innings of work and set down 32 of 36 batters.
In the end, USI senior right-hander
Brandon Shaw (Cuba, Illinois) took the loss for the Eages in relief. Shaw, who got the Eagles out of a first-and-third, one-out jam in the eighth, allowed the only run of the game on three hits in 4.1 innings of work, while striking out three of the 14 batters he faced.
The Eagles and the Cardinals completed the four-game series Sunday with a noon doubleheader in Liberty, Missouri.
