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April 8, 2007 SYCAMORES PICK UP MVC VICTORY OVER EVANSVILLE TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Indiana State freshman Skyler Pearson took the mound for the Sycamores looking to break a 17-game Missouri Valley Conference losing streak and he did just that, helping ISU to a 4-2 victory over Evansville on Sunday afternoon at Sycamore Field. The Sycamores improve to 15-14, 1-5 MVC, while Evansville falls to 22-12, 5-4 MVC. Pearson improved to 3-0 on the season, allowing four hits and two earned runs in six innings of work. Adam Lindsay picked up his fourth save of the season by tossing the final 2.1 innings, allowing just one hit and recording a pair of strikeouts. Offensively, ISU was paced by junior Dave Brumagin, who went 2-for-3 in the game with a pair of RBI and a run scored. Brumagin recorded his third sacrifice fly of the season, as well as his third double in the win. Nick Ciolli went 2-for-4 in the game with a run scored as well. ISU got off to a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on Brumagin’s sacrifice fly. He drove in Bond, who led off the frame with a single and moved to third on a double by Chris Schmidt. The Purple Aces knotted the score at one at in the second, but it was for a brief moment as the Sycamores regained control with another score in the bottom half of the frame. Ciolli was able to cross the plate on a wild pitch from Evansville starter Fred Jones, who dropped to 1-4 on the season with the loss. ISU made it 4-1 in the bottom of third when Brumagin doubled on a well hit ball to left field which scored Schmidt from first base. The relay throw got away from the Evansville shortstop and the ball trickled all the way to the right field fence, allowing Brumagin to continue around the bases and score for the 4-1 lead. Evansville added a score in the top of the seventh to make the score 4-2, but Lindsay came on and shut the door on the Purple Aces to give ISU its first MVC victory since April of last season. The victory broke a 17-game conference losing streak, and saved the Sycamores from suffering their sixth consecutive sweep of the hands of a league foe. Sean Osborne was hit by a pitch in the game’s fourth inning, which kept Indiana State’s streak alive at 12 – the number of consecutive games a Sycamore has been pelted at the plate by an opposing pitcher. For the season, the Sycamores have recorded 54 hit by pitches, just four shy of the school record set in 2005. ISU still has at least 26 games left on the schedule this season. The Sycamores continue the 2007 campaign with a pair of non-conference tilts this week against Valparaiso and Eastern Illinois. ISU battles the Crusaders on Tuesday, April 10 and the Panthers on Wednesday, April 11. Both games will begin at 4:00 p.m. (ET).
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