SCORE: GM 1 – IT 12, MG 1; GM 2 – IT 3, MG 2
RECORDS: Indiana Tech (25-23, 15-12 WHAC), Marygrove (2-39, 1-29 WHAC)
LOCATION: Livonia, Mich. (Ilitch Ballpark)
 
BRIEF: The Indiana Tech baseball team pushed its win streak to seven with a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference sweep of Marygrove, winning game one 12-1 in just seven innings while taking nine innings to win game two, 3-2. Caleb Heller led the offense in game one while Romer Portes continued his career season.

FLOW:
GAME 1
Tech belted out 20 hits, scoring 12 runs with five in the third, three in the fourth, one in the sixth and three more in the seventh for the 12-1, run-rule victory.
 
Brian Hakes got the third inning started with a leadoff walk and his courtesy runner, Kyle Mead came around to score on Tighe Koehring's RBI double to open the scoring. Three more Warrior hits and an error plated four more runs for the 5-0 lead.
 
Heller added to the lead in the fourth with a pair of two-out RBIs and scored on Chris Gaynor's double for an eight run lead.
 
A Zach Fyfe sacrifice fly in the sixth added to the Tech lead and four more hits in the seventh sealed the win. Koehring doubled to lead off the inning and Matt Bandor followed with a single, the former scoring on Heller's single up the middle. Gaynor then drove in both Bandor and Heller with a double to right for the 12-0 lead.
 
In the last of the seventh, the Mustangs plated their lone run on one hit and one Warriors error.

GAME 2
It was a much different game two as the Warriors collected eight hits, but left eight runners on base, scoring twice in the first and once in the ninth for the win.
 
Portes got the scoring started in the first tripling to left center to score Hakes and Koehring followed with an RBI double for a 2-0 lead.
 
Marygrove got one run back in the fifth as two hits, a sacrifice and an RBI groundout made it a one-run game. It looked as though Nick Noe was going to make the lead stand, but a leadoff single in the seventh ended his day and a two base error put a runner at their and a single tied the game.
 
TJ Lutz worked around a leadoff double in the eighth and Gaynor scored the winning run, doubling to left, advancing to third on the throwing error by the shortstop and then scoring on another throwing error by the first basemen to win the game.

BY THE NUMBERS:
GAME 1
Heller paced the offense, going 5-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs scored…Gaynor, Koehring and Portes each had three hits…Gaynor had four RBIs, Koehring had one and scored three times while Portes scored twice…Clay Wallace earned his second win of the season, scattering seven hits over 6.1 innings, allowing one unearned run with two walks and one strikeout
 
GAME 2
Portes collected three of the Warriors nine hits with Koehring and Derek Morgan each tallying a pair…Koehring and Portes accounted for the two RBIs with Portes, Hakes and Gaynor each scoring…Tech is now 12-1 in their last 13 games while Portes is hitting .392 with 47 runs scored and 58 RBIs
 
UP NEXT: The Warriors wrap up their WHAC series with the Mustangs on Sunday, Apr. 26 at Ilitch Ballpark in Livonia, Mich. with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
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Baseball Contact:  Zachary Shore | 260.422.5561 x. 2492 | zrshore@indianatech.edu
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