Upcoming Event: Baseball at UTSA on February 13, 2026 at TBA
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South Dakota State University Athletics
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Photo by: SDSU Sports Information
JACKRABBITS SETTLE FOR SPLIT AT WESTERN
3/26/2021 6:09:00 PM | Baseball
MACOMB Ill. – South Dakota State showed signs of breaking out of an offensive funk in a 10-3 victory in the first game of a Summit League baseball doubleheader against Western Illinois Friday afternoon, but Leatherneck pitcher Brett Sears pitched a three-hit shutout in Game 2 to finish with a split.
The Jackrabbits moved to 7-11 overall and 2-4 in league play. WIU ended the day with a 6-13 overall mark and 2-4 in The Summit League.
GAME 1: SDSU 10, WESTERN ILLINOIS 3
Drew Beazley recorded a career-high four hits and matched a career high with four runs batted in to lead the Jackrabbit offense and Adam Mazur tossed seven strong innings as the Jackrabbits won the opener, 10-3.
Beazley, a sophomore from Johnston, Iowa, knocked in his first run as part of a three-run first inning. After Luke Ira came up with a two-run, two-out single, Beazley plated Ira with a double to the left-center gap off Chandler Fochs.
Western Illinois countered with a two-run home half of the first on a bases-loaded walk to Chase VanDerGinst and an RBI groundout off the bat of Kory Olsen.
Jackrabbit starter Adam Mazur settled in from there, keeping Western Illinois off the board until the seventh. The freshman right-hander struck out six, walked four and surrendered three hits in earning his second win of the season. He retired 12 Leathernecks in a row in one stretch.
By that time, however, the Jackrabbits had broken the game open with three unearned runs in the third inning and adding two more runs in the fourth. Beazley singled in the last two runs of the third while the fourth-inning runs scored on Derek Hackman's team-leading third home run of the season.
SDSU added another run in the fifth as Landon Badger doubled and later scored on a wild pitch, while Beazley capped the scoring in the eighth with a single that plated Hackman.
Of the Jackrabbits' 15 hits, six went for extra bases – Hackman's home run and a season-high five doubles. Ira was 3-for-5, while Hackman and Jordan Sagedahl each notched a pair of hits.
GAME 2: WESTERN ILLINOIS 5, SDSU 0
The Leathernecks scored four times in the fourth inning and Sears was in control on the mound for Western Illinois.
SDSU starter Ryan Bourassa breezed through the first three innings, tallying four strikeouts before running into trouble in the fourth. T. Bauer started the Leatherneck rally with a one-out double and Alex Dorethy followed with a walk. After a groundout for the second out of the inning, Dylan Botaletto plated the first two runs with a hit to left field and Toby Allred followed with a two-run home run.
The Leathernecks added a run an inning later on a single by Bauer.
SDSU loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning on a walk, single and error, but Sears escaped with a flyout to center. The Jackrabbits stranded eight runners in the game.
A freshman right-hander, Sears struck out three and walked three in the seven-inning complete-game effort.
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UP NEXT
SDSU and WIU are scheduled to play the third game of their four-game series at 1 p.m. Saturday
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The Jackrabbits moved to 7-11 overall and 2-4 in league play. WIU ended the day with a 6-13 overall mark and 2-4 in The Summit League.
GAME 1: SDSU 10, WESTERN ILLINOIS 3
Drew Beazley recorded a career-high four hits and matched a career high with four runs batted in to lead the Jackrabbit offense and Adam Mazur tossed seven strong innings as the Jackrabbits won the opener, 10-3.
Beazley, a sophomore from Johnston, Iowa, knocked in his first run as part of a three-run first inning. After Luke Ira came up with a two-run, two-out single, Beazley plated Ira with a double to the left-center gap off Chandler Fochs.
Western Illinois countered with a two-run home half of the first on a bases-loaded walk to Chase VanDerGinst and an RBI groundout off the bat of Kory Olsen.
Jackrabbit starter Adam Mazur settled in from there, keeping Western Illinois off the board until the seventh. The freshman right-hander struck out six, walked four and surrendered three hits in earning his second win of the season. He retired 12 Leathernecks in a row in one stretch.
By that time, however, the Jackrabbits had broken the game open with three unearned runs in the third inning and adding two more runs in the fourth. Beazley singled in the last two runs of the third while the fourth-inning runs scored on Derek Hackman's team-leading third home run of the season.
SDSU added another run in the fifth as Landon Badger doubled and later scored on a wild pitch, while Beazley capped the scoring in the eighth with a single that plated Hackman.
Of the Jackrabbits' 15 hits, six went for extra bases – Hackman's home run and a season-high five doubles. Ira was 3-for-5, while Hackman and Jordan Sagedahl each notched a pair of hits.
GAME 2: WESTERN ILLINOIS 5, SDSU 0
The Leathernecks scored four times in the fourth inning and Sears was in control on the mound for Western Illinois.
SDSU starter Ryan Bourassa breezed through the first three innings, tallying four strikeouts before running into trouble in the fourth. T. Bauer started the Leatherneck rally with a one-out double and Alex Dorethy followed with a walk. After a groundout for the second out of the inning, Dylan Botaletto plated the first two runs with a hit to left field and Toby Allred followed with a two-run home run.
The Leathernecks added a run an inning later on a single by Bauer.
SDSU loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning on a walk, single and error, but Sears escaped with a flyout to center. The Jackrabbits stranded eight runners in the game.
A freshman right-hander, Sears struck out three and walked three in the seven-inning complete-game effort.
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UP NEXT
SDSU and WIU are scheduled to play the third game of their four-game series at 1 p.m. Saturday
NOTES
- SDSU leads the all-time series, 38-26
- Beazley's first career four-RBI game came in the second game of a doubleheader April 6, 2019, against Omaha
- Jack Sullivan retired all six batters he faced to close out the Jackrabbit victory in the opener
- Jamie Berg doubled in both games of the doubleheader for SDSU
- Hackman has reached base safely in all 17 of the games he has played this season
- Jess Bellows recorded a hit in each game and now has hit safely in 13 of the 15 games he has played
- SDSU had scored only one first-inning run all season prior to scoring three times in the opening inning of Game 1
- The Jackrabbits improved to 2-4 in series-opening games in 2021
- Clay Odenbach pitched a scoreless sixth inning in Game 2 for his fourth consecutive appearance without allowing a run, lowering his season earned run average to 1.93
- SDSU was shut out for the second time in 2021
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mazur, Adam (2-2)
L: Fochs, C. (2-3)
Batting:
2B: Bellows, Jess 1 ; Berg, Jamie 1 ; Ira, Luke 1 ; Badger, Landon 1 ; Beazley, Drew 1
HR: Hackman, Derek 1
RBI: Hackman, Derek 2 ; Ira, Luke 2 ; Badger, Landon 1 ; Beazley, Drew 4
SH: Berg, Jamie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Bellows, Jess 1 ; Berg, Jamie 1 ; McDonald, Ryan 1 ; Hackman, Derek 3 ; Ira, Luke 2 ; Badger, Landon 2
HBP: Bellows, Jess 1 ; McDonald, Ryan 3
Batting:
RBI: Schwartz, L. 1 ; VanDerGinst 1 ; Olsen, K. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Raisbeck, K. 1 ; Schwartz, L. 1 ; Munoz, D. 1
HBP: Schwartz, L. 1
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