SCORE: IT 14, AQ 2
RECORDS: Indiana Tech (31-26), Aquinas (22-30)
LOCATION: Adrian, Mich. (SHU Baseball Stadium)
 
BRIEF: The winning continued for the Indiana Tech baseball team as they downed the Saints of Aquinas in a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference Tournament elimination game with a 14-2 victory. It was a one run game until the sixth when the Warriors plated eight runs to pull away. Zach Sailors was terrific on the mound for his fourth win.
 
FLOW:
It was a bit of an ominous start for the Warriors as the offense went down in order in the first and the Saints got a run on a pair of hits and a walk. They had the bases loaded with two outs, but Sailors escaped the jam with a groundout.
 
The Orange and Black drew even in the third as Caleb Heller led off with a single and scored on a bases loaded walk to Romer Portes. The Warriors missed a chance to add-on as a strikeout ended the inning.
 
Sailors worked around a pair of hits in the third and two innings later the offense was back at it as Chris Gaynor led off with a single, advanced to second on Zach Fyfe's sacrifice bunt and then stole third. Dezmon Nunn promptly followed with a single to plate Gaynor, but a double play ended the threat.
 
In the bottom of the fifth, Aquinas got a one out walk, but Brian Hakes caught him stealing second, which was key, as the third hitter of the inning doubled. Sailors got out of the inning unscathed with a strikeout.
 
The Orange and Black broke things open in the sixth plating eight runs on five hits to take a commanding 10-1 lead. Portes led off with a double and Tighe Koehring followed with a base hit to put runners on the corners for Matt Bandor who plated Portes with a sacrifice fly. A pair of two out walks loaded the bases and Fyfe plated two with a single. Portes and Koehring each added two-run singles for the nine run lead.
 
Peyton Newsom opened the seventh with the first home run of the tournament and a two-out RBI single by Steve Remesnik made it 12-1 with a wild pitch scoring the Warriors 13th run of the contest.
 
A hit and an error plated another Warriors run in the eighth while the Saints got a two-out, RBI single in the ninth to round out the scoring.
 
IN THE NUMBERS:
The Warriors belted 14 hits in the contest led by Portes' 3-for-4 day, with two runs scored and three RBIs while bumping his average to .412…Nunn, Koehring and Gaynor each had a pair of hits while Nunn, Heller, Gaynor and Fyfe each scored twice…Tech drew nine walks and had five stolen bases with Nunn swiping a pair…Sailors scattered six hits over seven innings, allowing one run with four walks and three strikeouts…Tech has outscored their opponents 400-275 on the season with a 71-37 margin in the sixth inning
 
UP NEXT: The Warriors will face Davenport at 7 p.m. with the stakes of the game to be determined by the outcome of the DU, UNOH/Madonna contest. If Davenport loses, the game will be for the right to face the UNOH/Madonna winner in the WHAC Tournament Championship game, however, if Davenport wins, the Warriors and Panthers will play in the WHAC Championship with Tech needing a pair of wins to claim the crown.
 
LIVE COVERAGE: Live audio and video will be available through tournament host Siena Heights at www.indianatechwarriors.com/live. Live stats can be found at www.indianatechwarriors.com/shustats.
 
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Baseball Contact:   Zachary Shore | 260.422.5561 x. 2492 | zrshore@indianatech.edu 
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