TOLEDO, Ohio – The Indiana Tech baseball team got back to its winning ways on Wednesday afternoon as they swept a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) doubleheader from Lourdes at Mercy Field, winning 10-1 in game one before winning the night cap, 3-1.
The Warriors knocked in 10 runs on 15 hits in the first game while taking advantage of three Gray Wolves errors to snap a six-game losing streak while starter
Cody Kellar took a no-hitter into the fifth inning.
Brian Hakes went 3-3 with two RBI's and scored twice in game one while also drawing a pair of walks and legging out a triple.
Kyle Mead and
Charlie Sipe each picked up a pair of hits while scoring twice and driving in a run each.
Keith Tatum tripled and doubled while five Warrior swiped a base. Kellar went six innings for
Kip McWilliams, allowing one earned run on three hits and two walks while striking out two.
Jacob Koehring went the last three innings to pick up the save and allowing just one hit and recording two strike outs.
Tech would get on the board first in the third inning, scoring four runs on three hits and taking advantage of two errors. After a bunt single from
Tighe Koehring loaded the bases,
Glen McClain would drive in Mead with a fielder's choice to put the Orange and Black up. Sipe would then single through the right side to drive in Hakes before the visitors pulled off the double steal, allowing McClain to score after Lourdes second baseman threw the ball away.
The Warriors would come back with three more runs in the fourth when Hakes tripled score Mead and
Alex Delk. Hakes would come in to score in the next at-bat to extend the lead to 7-0. The Orange and Black push two more runs across the plate in the sixth and Tatum's triple in the sixth would give Tech a 10-0 lead.
Lourdes would get a leadoff triple from Dallas Riggs in the sixth and came around to score three batters later as Nick Toth singled up the middle, but the Warriors would hold the Gray Wolves to just one base runner in the last three innings to win game one.
Peyton Newsom would go 2-3 with a double and run in game two while
Mark Carpenter,
Branson Dossen and McClain drove in a run each.
Zach Sailors got the win after going four innings, allowing just one unearned run on one hit with three walks.
Connor McLaughlin would pick up his third save of the season with three innings of three hit baseball, striking out three.
The hosts would strike first in the bottom of the first inning with a single, two walks and an error to take a 1-0 lead, but Tech would take the lead back in the fourth with a bunt single form Carpenter and a triple from Dossen in back-to-back at-bats to take a 2-0 lead. McClain would add a sacrifice fly in the fifth to score Barksdale and make it a 3-0 game.
Lourdes would get runners at the corners in the seventh to bring the winning run to the plate, but McLaughlin would get a pop-up back to the mound to close out the game and complete the season sweep of the Gray Wolves.
Tech (28-16, 12-12 WHAC) hosts Siena Heights this weekend in a crucial WHAC matchup, with the Warriors sitting sixth in the conference and leading the Saints by two and a half games with eight games to go. The Orange and Black will hold Senior Day on Saturday in between games one and two, with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. from Warrior Stadium. Links to live stats and video will be available at IndianaTechWarriors.com.
