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FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech baseball team scored 20 runs to sweep the first two games of a four-game series against Cornerstone, winning 13-1 in seven innings and 7-5 in game two at Warriors Stadium on Friday.

GAME ONE | IT 13, CU 1 (7)

In a game scheduled for nine innings, the Warriors (26-19-1, 16-8) ended it early, invoking the 10-run mercy rule with a 13-1 win.

The first inning continued to hurt Tech, as they have been outscored 47-30 in the opening frame and an error and a hit in the top of the first was the only tally the Golden Eagles (14-25, 3-19) got in the opener.

Clay Wallace improved to 5-5 for the home team as he scattered six more hits over his final five innings of work, striking out eight and walking one while his only run was unearned. Nick Romie pitched a perfect inning of relief for the Warriors.

Offensively there was plenty happening for Tech, despite only tallying seven hits and seven earned runs as Cornerstone had trouble defensively, committing seven errors in the contest.

It started in the bottom of the first as the Warriors loaded the bases with two outs and a dropped pop-up off the bat of Brian Hakes allowed two runs to score and a single from Alex McKinstry plated Dunnichay for three unearned runs the lead.

The Warriors all but sealed the win in the second inning as Geronimo Berroa, Jr. reached base via error to lead off the inning and scored two batters later on a botched force play. Back-to-back singles by Justin Kalusa and Bryan Brudi, aided by another CU error made it 7-1 and a wild pitch and a fourth Golden Eagle error gave Tech the seven run advantage.

Jacob Dunnichay had the final dagger in the third as the senior leftfielder followed Romer Portes' RBI walk with a bases-clearing, three-run double off the wall in right center for an 11-run lead, 12-1.

The final tally came in the sixth on a sacrifice fly from Thomas Barnes, set-up by Cornerstone's seventh error of the game.

Kalusa finished the contest with a game-high three hits in five at-bats while scoring three times and driving in one. Dunnichay finished 1-for-2 with three RBIS and Brudi and Portes each scored twice.

GAME TWO | IT 7, CU 5

Sophomore right-hander Chase Keathley was dealing in game two and was able to keep the Warriors in the contest and earn a win.

Three hits in the first plated two first-inning runs for the visitors and quickly erased the momentum from game one, however, the Warriors took it all back in the bottom of the frame.

Barnes and Kalusa led off with back-to-back hits and Barnes scored one pitch later on a passed ball with Kalusa scoring three pitches later on a failed pick off, tying the score.

Dunnichay then singled, moved up to second on a passed ball, stole third and scored on a wild pitch for the lead. Three walks and a hit-by-pitch plated another run and a wild pitch, the second of the inning, made it 5-2 Warriors despite just three hits for Tech.

The Orange and Black fell apart defensively in the second as three errors led to two more runs for the Golden Eagles, cutting the Warriors lead to just one, 5-4.

Both pitchers settled in until the fifth as Portes doubled with one out and Dunnichay followed with an RBI single. After stealing third, Dunnichay scored on a single by Hakes to make it 7-4 Warriors.

Cornerstone got one run back in the sixth, but stranded two runners as Curtis Wise was called on in relief to end the threat and finished the seventh for a four-out save, his third of the season.

Keathley improved to 4-3 in 2014 as he allowed five runs, four earned, on seven hits, striking out two and walking one in 5.2 innings while Wise tossed 1.1 innings and allowed just one hit.

Dunnichay was the story in game two offensively as he went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI while five other Warriors recorded a hit.

The two teams will conclude the season series tomorrow at Warriors Stadium and Indiana Tech will honor its eight senior's in-between the two contests. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.