Box Score FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech baseball team defeated Indiana University Kokomo in eight innings, 6-5, Tuesday evening at Warrior Field in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader. Game two was rained out in the third inning with Tech leading 6-0.
 
Parker Bates put the Warriors up on the first pitch in the bottom of the first as he drilled his first home run of the season off Evans-Kimmell Hall in left field. Brice Stultz put Tech up 2-0 latter in the inning with a sacrifice fly, but the Cougars ended the threat as they got the trail runner at third base on a great relay on the 852 double play.
 
IU Kokomo responded in the next frame with a pair of runs following a pair of singles, a double, a bases loaded walk and a sacrifice fly, but would not get any more off freshman starter Jacob Spencer, making his first collegiate start.
 
The hosts went back up in the fourth following a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt by Patrick McGinn and a double steal of second and home by Pates and Trevor Patterson, with the former getting the Cougars to throw down to second and allowing the latter to score easily from third to make it a 4-2 game. Patrick Mills tied it back up in the top of the fifth with a monster two-run blast over Anthony Blvd. for his 10^th homer of the season, but an RBI groundout from Brice Stultz plated Micah O'Donnel in the bottom of the inning to put the Orange and Black up 5-4.
 
The visitors managed to tie the game up in the sixth following a leadoff double, a 5-3 putout and an RBI groundout to short, but neither team would get the go-ahead run as the game went into extra innings in the scheduled seven-inning contest.
 
Ashtin Moxey led off the eight with a single while Tristan Osika was hit with a pitch to give Tech runners at first and second with nobody out. Patterson laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners and the throw from the pitcher sailed over the first basemen's head and Moxey came around to score and give the Warriors the walkoff win.
 
Spencer finished the game with six strikeouts over four innings, allowing just two runs on five hits in the no-decision while Marty McDonald picked up the win after going the final four frames with four strikeouts and allowing three runs on five hits.
 
Tech (15-15) returns to action Wednesday as they host Wright State Lake in a single nine-inning game starting at 6 p.m. from Warrior Field.