HOWELL, Mich. – The Indiana Tech baseball team extend their winning streak to five games with a sweep over Cleary University Sunday afternoon at Lake Trust Stadium, winning game one 4-0 and game two 12-5.
The story of game one was senior
Hayes Sturtsman who threw a seven-inning complete game, striking out a career-high 12 batters while allowing just four hits and not allowing a single run over 114 pitches.
Tyler Stahl was 2-2 with a double two runs.
Tristan Osika put the Warriors on the board with a sacrifice fly to center in the second while Stahl gave the Warriors their second run of the game on a double steal in the next at-bat. Tech scored their final two runs in fourth as
Jayden Reed wore one with the bases loaded to get the RBI while a wild pitch allowed
Jacob Daftari to score in the next at-bat.
Jared Maxfield picked up the game in game two after going five innings on the bump with four strikeouts and giving up just two runs on three hits.
Ashtin Moxey was 2-3 with two doubles and two RBIs while
Trevor Patterson was 2-4 with two triples and three runs. Daftari was 1-4 with a home run and two RBIs while Stahl and Osika also drove in two runs each.
Parker Bates put the Warriors up 1-0 with a single to left following a one-out triple by Patterson while Moxey drove in
Brice Stultz three batters later with a double to left. Stahl made it a 4-0 game in the third with a two-out RBI triple while back-to-back doubles from Moxey and
Luis Diaz pushed the lead to 6-0.
The Cougars got their first run of the afternoon in the bottom of the third, but a two-RBI single from Osika made it an 8-1 game. Cleary scored four runs over the sixth and seventh innings to cut the deficit to 8-5, but the Warriors scored four runs on two hits (a triple and a home run), a walk, a balk and a hit batter in the ninth to push the lead to 12-5. Daftari made it a 10-5 game with a blast to left and one out while Patterson tripled in
Micah O'Donnell three batters later.
Tech (18-15, 6-4 WHAC) returns to action Monday with a doubleheader against Rochester University. First pitch is set for 12 p.m. from Royal Oak Memorial Park in Royal Oak, Michigan.
