Wichita State baseball wins opener at Dallas Baptist
Wichita State nearly squandered a nifty pitching performance by starter Zach Lewis on Friday night in Dallas.
However, after the Shockers wasted a 6-0 lead, they came back to notch an 8-6 victory over Dallas Baptist for a Missouri Valley Conference road victory.
Lewis went seven innings ffor the fifth time this season. He allowed two hits and left with WSU (22-23, 7-6) leading 6-0.
But the bullpen allowed six runs in the eighth as DBU (28-17, 8-5) tied it at 6.
Greyson Jenista, who had homered in the first for WSU first run, started the ninth inning with a double, went to third on an infield groundout by Alec Bohm and scored on an infield out by Noah Croft. Trey Vickers drove in pinch-runner Dayton Dugas with a single.
It was WSU’s fourth win in 21 road games.
Bohm stretched his hitting streak to 18 games, going 2 for 4. During this span, he is hitting .447 with five doubles, two triples and four homers.
Notes: Cody Tyler (4-4, 5.13) will pitch for WSU on Saturday against Jordan Martinson (5-3, 4.50). . . . WSU takes an 8-7 lead in the series with DBU and is 3-2 in games in Dallas. . . . Ben Hecht earned his seventh save of the season, striking out two in a 1-2-3 ninth. . . . WSU continued to hit well in MVC play, getting 18 hits. It is now hitting .321 in league play.
Wichita St. | Dallas Baptist | ||||||||
ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
Jackson cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hannah cf | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Jenista 1b | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Granberg lf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Bohm 3b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Listi 1b | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Schwnk dh | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Sandmann rf | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Dugas pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Duzenack ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Croft c | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Duce dh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Vickers ss | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | Millard 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Ritter lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wolforth c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
DeBckr lf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bandy 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Young rf | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Boyer 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Totals | 35 | 8 | 13 | 6 | Totals | 34 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
Wichita St | 100 | 220 | 012 | — | 8 13 1 | |
Dallas Baptist | 000 | 000 | 060 | — | 6 6 0 |
E: Boyer (10). DP: DBU 3. LOB: WSU 7, DBU 7. 2B: Bohm (10), Schwanke (6), Jenista (11). HR: Jenista (6), Millard (6). S: Vickers (5). SB: Young 2 (6), Sandman (5). CS: Vickers (2).
Wichita St | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lewis | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Heuer | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Sanburn | 1/3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Biechler W,1-2 | 2/3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Hecht S,7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
D. Baptist | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Gaither | 4 1/3 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Stone | 2 2/3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Kechely | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Higgins L,6-1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
WP:Gaither 2, Sanburn (5), Biechler 2 (5). HBP: Granberg (by Lewis), Wolford (by Biechler). T: 3:25. A: 601.
This story was originally published May 5, 2017 at 10:24 PM with the headline "Wichita State baseball wins opener at Dallas Baptist."