April 22, 2007
Baseball
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TWO SYCAMORES KEEP HITTING STREAK ALIVE IN LOSS TO CREIGHTON

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – A pair of Indiana State hitting streaks stayed alive, despite the Sycamores falling 16-0 to the hands of Creighton on Sunday afternoon (April 22) at Sycamore Field. ISU falls to 18-19, 2-10 MVC while the ‘Jays fell to 27-11, 12-3 MVC.

Sophomore Dave Brumagin reached base on a single in the bottom of the seventh to push his streak to a career-high 11 games. Freshman Nick Ciolli stretched his streak to nine games with a single earlier in the game.

ISU scratched out just five hits in the game as Creighton belted out 14.

The ‘Jays took control of the game in the top of the first with six unearned runs to take a quick 6-0 advantage. Ryan Strausborger committed an error early in the frame and Brett Siegmund was just a hair short at tagging third base for a force play in time allowing the first Creighton run to score with two outs. Creighton’s Ogden hit the first of his two homers in the first inning, a grand slam to give the ‘Jays a 6-0 lead.

Creighton did not score in the second inning, the only frame in which they failed to score a run.

Starter Ryan Hayes went 2.2 innings, allowing five hits, nine runs (six of which were unearned) while walking three. Skyler Pearson pitched the next 3.2 innings, giving up eight hits and seven runs while walking five and striking out two. Josh Varno cleaned up the game by tossing the final .2 of an inning, giving up just a hit with one strikeout. Hayes fell to 3-4 with the loss.

For Creighton, Ben Mancuso went the full seven innings to improve to 6-1 on the season. He allowed just five hits and no runs while striking out three.

Indiana State returns to action on Tuesday, April 24 with a non-conference game against Miami (Ohio). First pitch is set for 6 p.m. (ET) at Sycamore Field.

.