TOLEDO, Ohio – The Indiana Tech baseball team finished off its weekend set with Lourdes with a pair of conference wins in Sunday's doubleheader contest at Mercy Field, winning 13-3 (F/7) in game one and taking game two 11-4.
Keith Tatum led the offensive attack in game one, hitting for the cycle and going 5-5 with three RBI's and scoring once while
Tighe Koehring and
Peyton Newsom each had a pair of hits and the former driving in two runs.
Charlie Sipe,
Ryan Meisenheimer and Dante Bigani would all hit doubles while
Matt Bandor knocked in three runs.
Cody Kellar pitched six innings of one-run ball, allowing just three hits and striking out three for his second win of the season.
Tech would score three runs in the first, with Sipe doubling to right center on the second pitch of the game before Tatum tripled two batters later to plate Sipe. Koehring would single up the middle to score
Benny Clark III and come around to score three batters later on
Matt Bandor's sacrifice fly.
The Orange and Black would tack on another three runs in the second, with three doubles and a single before putting up a four-spot in the fifth off of four consecutive singles. The visitors would add two more in the seventh, which proved to be the difference as Lourdes tried to prevent the run-rule with a pair of runs, but
Jacob Foster would come in with two outs and get the final out of the game for the 13-3 win.
Tatum and Sipe would drive in two runs in game two while
Glen McClain and Koehring had three hits apiece. Sipe, Koehring and Tatum would all record doubles as well.
Jason Sterrett go five innings to pick up the win, allowing just one earned run on three hits while striking out five.
Jacob Koehring would finish out the game with a strong performance, pitching the final 2.2 innings and allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out three.
Tech's offensive attack picked right back in game two as they pushed five runs across the plate in the top of the first as they used five hits, two walks and an error as they batted around and chased Lourdes starter.
Koehring would come on in the seventh with one out and strand a pair of runners after Lourdes had push three runs across the plate to make it an 8-4 game, but McClain would get one back in the eight with an RBI single while and RBI groundout from Clark III and an RBI single from Newsome in the ninth would put the Warriors up 11-4 as they completed the series sweep.
Tech (5-1, 5-1 WHAC) concludes its fall season next weekend with a set against Northwestern Ohio. The two teams will open up with a single nine-inning contest on October 8 at Warrior Field, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. Links to live stats and video will be available at IndianaTechWarriors.com.
