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April
15, 2007 INDIANA STATE SECURES DOUBLEHEADER SPLIT WITH ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL, Ill. – The Indiana State Sycamores split their Missouri Valley Conference doubleheader with Illinois State on Sunday (April 15) at Redbird Field. ISU dropped the first game by a score of 16-6, in a game shortened by the Valley’s mercy rule. The Sycamores can back to win the day’s second game, 10-8 in 13 innings. ISU is now 17-16, 2-7 MVC while the Redbirds fell to 16-17, 7-5 MVC. In the top of the 13th inning of the day’s second game freshman Casey Martin drilled a deep home run to left field which plated a trio of runs to give ISU a 10-7 advantage. Matt Shelton pitched the final 2.1 innings to improve to 3-0 on the season and help ISU earn the 10-8 victory. Shelton allowed just one unearned run during his stint while striking out two. He struck out the final batter of the game. ISU took a quick 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning, powered by the first of two home runs from freshman Nick Ciolli. He would go deep again in the top of the fifth with a two run shot that knotted the score at six. Ciolli finished the game 3-for-6 with three runs scored and five RBI. Junior Chris Schmidt was 4-for-6 in the day’s second game with four runs scored as he pushed his season batting average up to .403. The game started out as an offensive battle with the score tied 7-7 at the end of seven innings, and neither team scored over the next five innings, until Martin’s heroic blast in the 13th. ISU fell 16-6 in the day’s first game, in a game which went just eight innings. Starter Ryan Tatusko took the loss to move to 3-5 on the year as he lasted just 3.0 innings, giving up six hits and nine runs. Only three of his runs were earned as the Sycamores’ committed four costly errors in falling behind. The Sycamores took a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the third, until the Redbirds plated nine runs in that frame for the 10-2 advantage. Dave Brumagin went 2-for-4 in the game with a pair of runs scored and a pair of RBI in the day’s first game. Schmidt and Ciolli also went 2-for-4 in the game as they both enjoyed multi-hit outings in both games on the day. Indiana State returns to action on Tuesday, April 17 with a non-conference battle at Indiana. First pitch is slated for 3:00 p.m. (ET).
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