May 20, 2006 SYCAMORES FINISH SEASON WITH 5-3 LOSS TO MISSOURI STATE TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State ended the 2006 season with a 5-3 loss to Missouri State on Saturday afternoon at Sycamore Field. The Sycamores finished the year with a 20-34 record and a 5-19 record in the MVC. The Bears ended the regular season with a 30-20 overall record and placed second in the conference with a 15-8 mark. The Sycamores held a 3-0 lead through five innings of action, but the Bears fought back with two runs in the sixth and tied the game with a run in the seventh. The game was decided in the top of the ninth when the Bears put together three hits to score two runs to earn the win. Chad Dawson earned the start for ISU and went 6.0 strong innings, as he gave up only two runs on seven hits. The Sycamores took a 1-0 lead in the first inning as Ryan Bond used a two-out RBI single to score Jake Eigsti. ISU pushed the lead to 3-0 off of Jake Shafer with two runs in the third, when Bond's double scored Eigsti and Nevin Ashley who opened the frame with singles. Adam Lindsay entered the game in the seventh and Matt Lawson greeted him with a double that went off of Lindsay's shin into leftfield. Lawson then moved up on a groundball and scored on a wildpitch to tie the game at 3-3. Shafer (3-4) settled down and shut down the Sycamores as he gave up only two hits and didn't allow a run over his final five innings and he earned the victory when the Bears used three singles in the ninth off of Brian Omogrosso (3-2) to clinch the victory. The game ends the career of eight Sycamore seniors, including four-year letterwinners Jake Eigsti and Jason Murray, along with Tim Brewer, Cory Kral, Andrew Galle, Adam Tyler, Adam Pabst and Dan Caudle. |