FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech baseball team continued its torrid streak over the weekend with a pair of sweeps against conference foes Siena Heights University and Lourdes University. Tech swept the Senior Day doubleheader against SHU Saturday with scores of 20-3 and 16-1 while the Warriors outlasted Lourdes and thunderstorms Sunday with 9-8 and 21-15 victories at Warrior Field.
Mike Snyder was 10-17 (.588) over the four games with 10 hits, three doubles, a triple and two home runs while driving in 10 runs while
Ashtin Moxey batted a team-best .692 (9-13) with three doubles, three doubles and 10 RBIs.
Trevor Patterson hit .538 with four doubles and drove in five runs while
Jacob Daftari,
Tyler Stahl and
Tristan Osika all had home runs.
Hayes Sturtsman struck out eight batters Sunday over 5.2 innings while
Tyler Stacy threw 4.1 innings over both days with six strikeouts.
Dalton Swinehart and
Zachary Zaborowski each allowed just one run in four innings of relief work.
SHU Recap
Moxey put the Warriors on top in the second with a monster two-run shot onto Anthony Boulevard only to see the Saints tie it back up at 2-2 in the top of the third. Tech scored three times in the fourth, twice on double steals of home, before exploding for 11 runs on seven hits in the fifth, sending 16 batters to the plate while pushing the lead to 16-2.
Tech jumped all over the Saints in game two with a leadoff triple by
Jayden Reed, a one-out double by Daftari and a grand slam by Moxey that also found its way to Concordia Lutheran Cemetery across Anthony. The Orange and Black tacked on four more runs in the third to make it a 10-0 game before using five doubles to score five more in the fifth and making it a 15-1 game.
Lourdes Recap
Game one was a back-and-forth affair with Lourdes holding a 6-3 lead after four innings, but the Warriors storming back with four runs in the fourth, powered by back-to-back two-out doubles by Stahl and Moxey to take a 7-6 lead.
The Gray Wolves, after not scoring in the fourth, fifth or sixth innings, scored twice in the top of the seventh to tie the game up at 8-8, but a one-out double from Osika scored
Patrick McGinn to give the Warriors the walk-off win.
Game two was disrupted by thunderstorms and lighting in the late afternoon, but that didn't stop either teams offense as the two squads combined for 36 runs on 31 hits. A six-run fourth from the Warriors, with two-run bombs from Snyder and Moxey, put the Warriors up 12-5 and the hosts continued to crank out runs over the final four innings to set a new season-best for runs in a game.
Tech (27-18, 13-7) returns to action Tuesday as they travel to the University of St. Francis (Ill.) for a doubleheader. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. ET from DuPage Medical Group Field in Joliet, Illinois.