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South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, April 9
Macomb, Ill.
12 p.m.
South Dakota State University
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Jacks, Leathernecks split
4/9/2011 11:08:00 PM | Baseball
MACOMB, Ill. - South Dakota State scored six times in the top of the 12th inning en route to a 9-6 victory over Western Illinois to salvage a split of a Summit League doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Al D. Boyer Stadium.
Western Illinois rallied for a 6-5 victory in Saturday's opener. The two squads are scheduled to play the series finale at noon Sunday.
Senior Billy Stitz set the Jackrabbit career hits record on Saturday. The center fielder from Burnsville, Minn., tied Greg Geary's mark of 256 hits set from 2002-05 with a pair of hits in the opener, then surpassed the mark with three hits in Game 2.
SDSU led 4-3 entering the bottom of the seventh of the opener before John Koszulinski connected on a three-run home run off Jackrabbit ace Blake Treinen with two outs.
Zach Rhodes led off the Jackrabbit eighth with a double and scored on a base hit by Daniel Marra, but could get no closer.
Beau Below pitched the final three innings to earn the victory for the Fighting Leathernecks. WIU starter Zach Sterling struck out eight, walked four and allowed four runs on five hits in six innings.
Treinen fanned five and walked a pair in 6 2/3 innings of work as he fell to 2-2 on the season.
Each team tallied nine hits in the game. Blake and Stitz were each 2-for-5 for the Jackrabbits, while Koszulinski was 3-for-4 and drove in four runs.
The Jackrabbits (13-10, 2-1 Summit) wasted little time to gain the advantage in the nitecap, scoring twice in the top of the first. Beau Hanowski led off the game with a single, stole second, moved to third on a fly ball and scored on a base hit Blake. Eric Cain plated Blake with the second run of the inning on a double to right-center field.
WIU got a run back in the home half of the second on a solo home run by Tom Lilja, but the Jackrabbits countered in the third as Rhodes doubled and scored on a base hit by Daniel Telford.
The Fighting Leathernecks scored a run of their own in the bottom of the third and tied the game in the seventh with an unearned run off SDSU closer Trever Vermeulen. With the bases loaded and one out in the seventh, Austin Cowen reached on an infield single to knot the game at 3-all. With the winning run 90 feet, Vermeulen induced Matt Igara to ground into a 6-4-3 double play to send the game into extra innings.
The game remained tied at 3-all until the 12th. Cain and Jesse Sawyer drew back-to-back walks to open the frame and Andrew Phelan was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Two batters later, backup catcher Nick Andrews came through in the clutch with a two-run double to left center. After a walk to Beau Hanowski re-loaded the bases, Stitz and Blake followed with run scoring singles, with two more runs scoring when Blake's hit was mishandled in the outfield.
WIU wouldn't go down without a fight, scoring three runs and putting the tying run at the plate before Erik DeJong retired the final two batters to close out the victory. DeJong pitched the final three innings, walking one and striking out one in earning his first career victory. Vermeulen struck out six and walked one in a four-inning relief stint. Alex Oberle worked the first five innings on the mound for SDSU.
SDSU held an 18-10 advantage in hits, but stranded 16 runners in the contest. Cain and Stitz each had a pair of hits, while Blake and Phil Paquette tallied two hits apiece.
Game 1: WESTERN ILLINOIS 6, SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 5
SDSU 001 100 210 5-9-2
WIU 201 000 30X 6-9-1
SDSU: Blake Treinen, Austin Busse (7) and Zach Briggs, Joel Blake and Nick Andrews. WIU: Zach Sterling, Beau Below (7) and John Koszulinski.
W-Below (1-). L-Treinen (2-2). Save-none.
HR: Koszulinski (2).
Game 2: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 9, WESTERN ILLINOIS 6 (12 inn.)
SDSU 201 000 000 006 9-18-3
WIU 011 000 100 003 6-10-2
SDSU: Alex Oberle, Trever Vermeulen (6), Erik DeJong (10) and Zach Briggs, Nick Andrews. WIU: Ryan Wachholder, Gabe Long (6), Travis Pedersen (7), Garrett Bolt (9), Tyler Owings (12), Brian Loconsole (12) and John Koszulinski.
W-DeJong (1-0). L-Bolt (0-1). Save-none.
HR: WIU-Tom Lilja (6).
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