No. 6 Baseball Wins in Seven Against Indiana Tech

ATHENS, Tenn.- The baseball team took the field at Athens Insurance Stadium on Tuesday. The team faced the Indiana Tech Warriors in the first of two games.

TWU scored a run in the first inning. Braxton Turner got on base with a hit by pitch, moving to second a wild pitch. A flyout got Turner to third, and he scored on an error off Jack Stevens' hit, giving the Bulldogs a 1-0 advantage. The team added two runs in the second inning.

Kruise Newman started the inning with a single, moving to third on Carson Ford's single. A third consecutive single in the inning, this one by Turner, brought Newman across home plate to make the lead 2-0. A sacrifice fly by Martinez brought Ford home to move the lead to 3-0.

The fourth inning saw six runs scored. The first two went toward Indiana Tech's score to cut the lead down to one run. Ford pushed the lead back out to two runs with his solo home run. Blake Hubble followed with a triple to right field, scoring on Martinez's double to extend the lead to three runs. Martinez and Cayle Webster were the third and fourth runs of the inning for the Bulldogs, making the score 7-2 after the fourth inning. Solo home runs in the fifth inning by Newman and Turner helped the team move their lead to seven runs while a wild pitch in the sixth made the score 10-2 as Webster scored.

The run rule ended the game early in the seventh inning. After getting on base with a walk, Hagen Escoto moved into scoring position on second via a stolen base. Corbin Shaw hit a ball to left field to score Escoto and stood on second after the double. Joining Shaw on base was Cade Bochlter, who got to base via a hit by pitch. Neither was on base much longer as Newman hit a triple to score both runners, ending the game in the process as the Bulldogs took a 13-3 lead in the seventh.

Shaw and Newman both finished the game with three RBIs while Turner and Martinez each had two. Cooper Sain was credited with the pitching win.

TWU (13-9) will finish the two-game series against Indiana Tech on Wednesday. The game is set to begin at 1:00 p.m.