Indiana State strikes early, beats Wichita State 13-6
Wichita State’s road woes overshadowed a sparkling relief effort by Tyler Jones in a 13-6 loss to Indiana State on Thursday night in Terre Haute, Ind.
The Shockers dropped to 4-20 on the road.
WSU (9-10 MVC, 26-27) trailed 8-2 after three innings and Indiana State had hit three homers off Shockers starter Zach Lewis. Going into the game, Lewis had a streak of 21 1/3 scoreless innings.
Jones, an Andale High product hadn’t pitched in 16 days. He went four innings, allowing two hits and one earned run. He struck out six, matching a personal best at WSU.
Greyson Jenista led off the game with his seventh homer of the season, but the Sycamores (11-8, 26-23) answered with a two-run shot by Clay Dungan in the bottom of the first.
With Jones cooling ISU’s hot bats, the Shockers drew within 9-6 in the seventh. The hosts sent 10 batters to the plate in the eighth, scoring four runs.
Notes: Trey Vickers stretched his hitting streak to nine games, going 3 for 5. He is hitting .447 in Missouri Valley games. In his hitting streak, he’s hitting .474. During his streak, he has had six multi-hit games.… In the fifth, Jordan Boyer hit a two-out two-run double. He has 40 RBIs, 31 coming with two outs.… Codi Heuer (1-1, 4.83) will pitch for WSU on Friday against Tyler Ward (4-3, 3.77).
Wichita State | Indiana State | ||||||||
ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
Jenista 1b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Friis ss | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Vickers ss | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Tftlnd rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bohm 3b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Giesler dh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Schwnk dh | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Dungan 2b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Ritter lf-rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rosslli cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
DeBckr rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bifano c | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Croft c | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Moore lf | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dugas rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Zahn 1b | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Katzfey lf | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Gardner 3b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Young ph | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Jackson cf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Boyer 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Totals | 36 | 6 | 10 | 6 | Totals | 34 | 13 | 10 | 13 |
Wichita St. | 101 | 120 | 100 | — | 6 10 1 |
Indiana St. | 233 | 010 | 04x | — | 13 10 1 |
E: Biechler (1), Dungan (3). DP: ISU. LOB: WSU 11, ISU 6. 2B: Jackson 2 (9), Boyer (12), Gardner (6), Moore (4). 3B: Friis (2). HR: Jenista (7), Dungan (8), Rosselli (9), Zahn (4), Bifano (3). S: Zah (4). SF: Schwanke (2). SB: Bohm (5).
Wichita State | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lewis L,4-4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
Jones | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Biechler | 2/3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Snavely | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Indiana State | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Kincanon | 1 2/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Larrison W,3-2 | 2 2/3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Conway | 1 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Polley | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
WP: Kincanon (7). PB: Bifano 2 (10). HBP: Giesler (by Biechler), Young (by Polley).. T: 3:18. A: 402.
This story was originally published May 18, 2017 at 9:28 PM with the headline "Indiana State strikes early, beats Wichita State 13-6."