Baseball takes series at home against No. 7 East Carolina

BY TRINITY RAMM sports@thesunflower.com

Three straight wins over the No. 7 team in the country over the weekend put the baseball team at No. 25 in the national rankings.

Game 1:

Due to travel issues, the series opener for the East Carolina series was turned into a Saturday doubleheader. The team won the morning game 7-0.

Peyton Tolle started on the mound for the Shockers and pitched the full nine innings. He allowed two hits on 10 strikeouts. He now has seven wins on the season.

Freshman Jaden Gustafson and junior Mauricio Millan led the Shockers’ offense with 2 RBI each. Gustafson’s hit to center field in the second inning gave David Herring the chance to score and gave Wichita State their first run of the game.

In the fourth inning, Millan hit a single to center field that allowed Garrett Pennington and Brock Rodden to score.

Pennington and Ingram both hit solo homers in the sixth inning to add more cushion to the Shockers’ lead.

Game 2:

Jace Miner got his second save of the season in baseball’s second win of the day. The final score was 8-3.

East Carolina took their first lead of the series in the first inning of this game when Jacob JenkinsCowart scored off of a Luke Nowak single.

Ingram and Herring both hit home runs in the first and second innings.

The Shockers’ offense was on fire in the sixth inning. They scored four runs on two singles and a double.

Candiotti allowed seven hits and three runs through 5.2 innings. Miner came in for 3.1 innings and only gave up seven hits on 49 pitches.

Game 3:

Grant Adler picked up his second American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week award from his performance in their 8-0 victory.

He threw for the entire game and gave up three hits, zero runs and struck out five pitchers. His record for the season now sits at 4-2.

The Shockers did all of their scoring in the fifth and sixth innings. Tolle batted in three runs on 2-5 hitting. Pennington and Herring both had 2 RBI for the afternoon.

Wichita State is now tied at the top of the conference with Houston at 8-4 in conference play. The team is on a six-game winning streak.

The Shockers started a fivegame homestand against Kansas on Wednesday and will host a series against Memphis April 28-30.