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FULLERTON, Calif. —Little changed 24 hours later, so Kansas State heads home without a victory in its third NCAA baseball regional appearance.
Illinois pitcher John Anderson held K-State without a big rally, and the Illini's bottom two hitters combined for five hits and four RBIs in a 5-3 elimination-game victory Saturday at Goodwin Field in the Fullerton Regional.
"We've had our backs to the wall pretty much the last three weeks; either win or go home," Wildcat coach Brad Hill said. "We continued to win games in pressure situations."
Not here. Other than the fifth inning, when the Wildcats scored two unearned runs to cut the deficit to 5-3, they didn't mount a rally.
From the sixth inning on, K-State never sent more than three batters to the plate, twice hitting into double plays.
Anderson (8-6) gave up seven hits and one earned run over eight innings.
"He (Anderson) threw strikes, mixed it up," said Jason King, who had one hit in two games, an RBI single in the fifth inning. "If you've got a guy throwing a lot of strikes and thinks, 'If you're going to beat me, you're going to have to swing the bats,' you're going to have a really good chance."
K-State starter Matt Applegate (5-5), a Wichita North grad, also threw strikes, but he was unable to stop Illinois' eight and ninth batters, Davis Hendrickson and Josh Parr.
Hendrickson led off the third inning with a triple and Parr followed with a double that tied the game at 1-1. In the fourth, Hendrickson hit a sacrifice fly and Parr followed with a two-run triple that put the Illini ahead to stay and chased Applegate.
K-State took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Mike Kindel's eighth home run, a shot to straightaway center.
"I thought it would be off the fence as soon as I hit it. I guess the wind just took it," Kindel said. "The ball's been carrying out to center and right field... during BP and (Friday) night. I thought as soon as I hit it, I thought it would be a double, but I guess the wind just carried it out."
Notes — This was the first time Kansas State (35-25) failed to win a game at a regional.... Nick Martini's third-inning triple was the 10th of his K-State career, placing him 10th in school history.
ILLINOISabrhbiKANSAS ST. abrhbi
Cappetta 2b4020Kivett 2b4110
Ju. Parr dh4011Urban lf3000
Davis c4010Martini cf3011
Hohl 3b4010Jas. King 3b4011
McMurray lf4110Hinkle 1b4010
Dittman 1b4120Moore pr0000
Argo cf3100Kindel rf4111
Hendrickson rf3121Jar. King dh3000
Jo. Parr ss4123Klein c3010
Brown ss3110
Totals34 5 12 5Totals31 3 7 3
Illinois (29-26) 002 300 000 — 5 Kansas State (35-25) 010 020 000 — 3
E—McMurray, Jo. Parr, Kivett. DP—Illinois 2, Kansas St. 1. LOB—Illinois 9, Kansas St. 4. 2B—Hendrickson, Jo. Parr. 3B—Hendrickson, Jo. Parr, Martini. HR—Kindel (8). SB—Cappetta (15). CS—Davis, Argo. S—Cappetta, Urban. SF—Ju. Parr, Hendrickson, Martini.
Illinoisip h r er bb so
Anderson W,8-68 7 31 1 3
Pack S,4100000
Kansas St.
Applegate L,5-53 2/3 75511
Esquivel2 1/330002
Marshall320015
Esquivel faced 1 batter in the 7th. Anderson faced 1 batter in the 9th.
WP—Marshall (4). HBP—Argo by Applegate; Davis by Marshall.
Umpires—Home, Scott Kennedy; First, Jeff Doy; Second, Jeff Head; Third, Steve Manders.
T—2:33. A—1,057.
