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Bradley evens series with 7-2 win
05/19/2017 | 4:13:00 | Baseball
PEORIA, Ill. - The Bradley baseball team evened the series with a 7-2 win over Southern Illinois today at Dozer Park. The Braves jumped up 2-0 after the first inning and never trailed in the game.Â
"We didn't play well in any phase of the game," SIU head coach Ken Henderson said. "We didn't play well enough to win. Our defense was probably the worst it has been in a long time. We were 0-for-13Â with runners in scoring position. We did not have good ABs in those situations. We just had a bad day."
Connor Kopach led off the first inning with a double but was stranded. In the bottom half, Bradley (20-29, 6-14 MVC) hit a two-out, two-run double and never looked back. The Salukis had traffic throughout the game but stranded 11 on base in the game. In the first four innings, the Salukis (27-28, 10-10 MVC) were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.Â
SIU starter Jamison Steege kept SIU in striking distance for the first half of the game. After Bradley's quick two runs, Steege settled down and put up four-straight scoreless innings. He got into trouble in the sixth. After a leadoff homer, Bradley loaded the bases with one out. A two-run double pushed the Bradley lead to 5-0 and chased Steege. Both inherited runners came in to score, one of them on one of Southern's four errors in the game.Â
"His stuff looked good; he just had some untimely walks," Henderson said of Steege. "That walk in the first inning turned into a run. He did a lot of good things. He left a couple balls up in the zone and gave away a couple free passes. Overall, he had good stuff and his velocity was good. He just didn't execute enough."
The Salukis loaded the bases with no outs in the eighth inning. Will Farmer and Logan Blackfan drew bases loaded walks to bring in Southern's two runs. Ultimately, SIU couldn't get the big hit to truly get back into the game.Â
Greg Lambert hit a ninth-inning double to tie SIU's single-season doubles record. Now with 24 doubles this season, Lambert is tied with Chris Serritella (2012) for the most doubles in a season by a Saluki.Â
The loss eliminated any chance of Southern Illinois becoming the 3-seed in next week's MVC Tournament. With an SIU win tomorrow or an Evansville loss in one of the next two games against Dallas Baptist, the Salukis will play in the 4-5 seed game at the MVC Tournament.Â
SIU and Bradley will play the rubber game on Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.Â
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cook, Cole (8-5)
L: Steege, Jamison (2-2)
S: Richey, Matthew (1)
Batting:
2B: Kopach, Connor 1 ; Lambert, Greg 1 ; Blackfan, Logan 1
RBI: Farmer, Will 1 ; Blackfan, Logan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Smith, Ryan 1 ; Lambert, Greg 1
Batting:
2B: Gaa, Spencer 1 ; Mangieri, Luke 1 ; Shadid, Andy 1
HR: Bangert, Derek 1
RBI: Gaa, Spencer 1 ; Bangert, Derek 1 ; Mangieri, Luke 2 ; Shadid, Andy 2
SH: Fairchild, Zach 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Shadid, Luke 1 ; Gaa, Spencer 1 ; Bangert, Derek 2 ; Mangieri, Luke 1 ; Fairchild, Zach 1 ; Gruener, Evan 1
SB: Gaa, Spencer 1 ; Mangieri, Luke 1
HBP: Shadid, Luke 1
Game Leaders
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AB
3
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RBI
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AB
4
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H
1
RBI
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