HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. – The No. 9-ranked Indiana Tech baseball team took a pair of games from Thomas More University at Bill Aker Baseball Complex on the campus of Northern Kentucky University, winning 2-0 and 7-2.
Game one was dominated by pitching as
Phillip Hobbs threw a complete game one-hitter with five strikeouts and needing just 83 pitches in seven innings of work. Tech scored both its runs in the third inning as Spencer McGhee knocked in
Ashtin Moxey with an RBI groundout while a two-out error from the Saints allowed
Reese Olden to score and make it a 2-0 game. Hobbs only allowed two more base runners the rest of the game as he kept Thomas More off-balance all game.
The Warriors took advantage of a pair of three-run innings and big blasts in game two to complete the sweep.
Jacob Daftari launched a two-run homer in the top of the second on the first pitch he saw to make it a 3-0 game after
Jashaun Simon drove in
Christian De Los Santos with an RBI single through the left side.
Daftari got the offense going again in the fifth as he led off the inning with a single that was followed up with a bunt single from Olden.
Mike Snyder smashed his seventh homer of the season two batters later on a 1-0 count to make it a 6-0 game, giving the Tech bullpen plenty of cushion to give McGhee the win after the senior went 4.2 innings of shutout ball. Snyder hit his second homer of the game in seventh to make it a 7-2 and finished the game 4-4 with four RBI.
Tech (7-2) returns to action on Tuesday, March 3 as they "host" Huntington University in at Logansport High School in Logansport, Indiana. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.