Published: May 05, 2008 12:10 am            

ISU baseball falls hard again to Missouri State

TERRE HAUTE — Missouri State’s destruction of the Indiana State pitching staff was completed Sunday at Sycamore Field as the visiting Bears won 21-10 to complete a three-game Missouri Valley Conference baseball sweep.

After overcoming a 6-0 deficit from the top of the first inning to tie the game 6-6 in the bottom of the third, ISU immediately allowed a seven-run inning to the Bears in the fourth, and the visitors put the game away from there.

Josh Mazzola’s three-run homer, his fourth of the series and 10th of the season, was the big blow in the top of the first, but ISU got one back in the bottom of the inning and five more in the third.

Ryan Strausborger and Brian Ramirez hit singles, and long fly balls by Chris Schmidt and Brady Shoemaker got the run home in the first. In the third, back-to-back doubles by Bronco Lafrenz and Strausborger and a walk to Ramirez started the rally, Schmidt had an RBI single and Shoemaker another sacrifice fly, and Nick Ciolli capped the inning with a two-run homer.

But Missouri State scored seven times in the top of the fourth, five of the runs coming with two out, and added a run in the fifth.

ISU’s last gasp came in the bottom of the sixth, when Shoemaker’s third sacrifice fly and Ciolli’s second homer, this one with two on, cut the lead to 14-10. But Sycamore pitchers couldn’t get another scoreless inning the rest of the way.

Indiana State has home games Tuesday and Wednesday against Eastern Illinois and Purdue before resuming MVC play next weekend at Creighton.

• Rose loses, gets third seed — At Lexington, Ky., Rose-Hulman lost 5-3 to Transylvania on Sunday and will be the third seed in the upcoming Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament.

Mount St. Joseph will host the tournament, with Franklin at the No. 2 seed. Transylvania earned the fourth seed with Sunday’s win.

Rose had a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning on two errors and a sacrifice fly by Gabe Focke, but Transylvania broke through with all five of its runs in the eighth.

A ninth-inning double by Rose’s Andrew Bilse and a sacrifice fly by Chandler Kent brought the Engineers within two runs, but no closer.

Tim Tepe had a pair of singles for Rose-Hulman, and sophomore Derek Eitel’s strong pitching performance — two earned runs in 7 1/3 innings — was to no avail.

The Engineers, 28-11, open tournament play Thursday against Franklin. More tournament details will be released today.



Missouri State 21, ISU 10

MSU ab r h bi ISU ab r h bi

Woodbury cf 6 3 5 3 Strsbrgr 2b 4 3 2 1

Keane rf 5 0 0 1 Trepel 2b 1 0 0 0

Conway rf-lf 0 1 0 0 Ramirez 3b 3 2 1 0

Drake 3b 7 1 1 1 Schmidt cf 5 2 3 1

Carlson dh 5 3 2 1 Shoemaker lf 1 0 0 3

Playter ss 7 4 4 2 Ciolli rf 3 2 2 5

Mazzola 1b 3 3 2 5 Brumagin dh 5 0 0 0

Overstreet 1b 1 0 1 1 Jett 1b 2 0 0 0

Welch 2b 6 2 3 4 Caple 1b 2 0 0 0

Paul c 2 3 1 2 Del Real ss 4 0 1 0

Mantle lf-rf 5 1 3 1 Standridge ss 1 0 0 0

Lafrenz c 4 1 1 0

GKing c 0 0 0 0

Totals 47 21 22 21 Totals 35 10 10 10

Missouri State 600 710 313 — 21

Indiana State 105 004 000 — 10

E — Drake (12), Welch (4), Schmidt (2), Shoemaker (5). DP — MSU 1. LOB — MSU 13, ISU 9. 2B — Woodbury (12), Carlson (10), Playter (5), Overstreet (2), Welch (6), Paul (3), Mantle (16), Strausborger (7), Lafrenz (3). 3B — Woodbury (5), Welch (1). HR — Mazzola 2 (11), Ciolli 2 (5). SB — Carlson 2 (4). SF — Woodbury (3), Keane (5), Shoemaker 3 (3).

IP H R ER BB SO

Missouri State

Ryun 2 5 5 5 1 0

Aycock (W, 2-1) 21/3 1 1 1 2 0

Doyle 12/3 3 4 2 1 0

Toler 12/3 1 0 0 1 2

Frevert 11/3 0 0 0 1 1

Indiana State

Spencer (L, 2-4) 32/3 13 13 12 4 2

Gurbach 22/3 3 4 4 5 4

Inman 22/3 6 4 4 2 1

Ryun faced 4 batters in the 3rd.

WP — Ryun (2). HBP — by Aycock (Strausborger), by Inman (Paul), by Toler (Shoemaker). Bk — Spencer (2). T — 3:43. Att — 212.

Next game — Indiana State (13-29, 6-12 in Missouri Valley Conference) has a 6 p.m. home game Tuesday against Eastern Illinois. Missouri State is 33-14 and 16-5.

        

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