SDSU CLOSES SERIES WITH DOUBLEHEADER SPLIT

Friday, February 25

San Antonio, Texas

2 p.m.

South Dakota State University

1-5

Incarnate Word

1-2

South Dakota State

Incarnate Word

Photo by: Erik Williams

2/25/2022 8:44:00 PM | Baseball

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — South Dakota State broke through offensively early to claim the first game of a college baseball doubleheader Friday afternoon, 6-4, before the Incarnate Word pitching staff took over to salvage a split with a 1-0 victory in Game 2 at Daniel Sullivan Field.

The Jackrabbits, who picked up their first win of the season in Friday's opener, ended the day with a 1-6 overall record. UIW moved to 2-2 by winning two of the games in the three-game series.

Game 1: South Dakota State 6, Incarnate Word 4
Dawson Parry hit a grand slam in the third inning and Ryan Bourassa closed out the Jackrabbit victory with four solid innings of relief.

The Jackrabbits scored the first run of the game in the top of the second as Derek Hackman led off the inning with a base hit and scored on the first of three doubles in the game by Drew Beazley. SDSU made it 2-0 later in the inning on an RBI groundout off the bat of Cade Stuff that plated Ryan McDonald.

Parry's grand slam, his first home run as a Jackrabbit, came after walks to Nic Nelson, Hackman and McDonald loaded the bases and pushed the SDSU lead to 6-0.

UIW chipped away at the deficit, scoring two unearned runs in the bottom of the third and scoring another run off Jackrabbit starter Cody Carlson in the fifth on an RBI double by Grant Smith.

Carlson struck out two, walked three and gave up four hits over five innings en route to the win.

Bourassa entered to pitch for the Jackrabbits in the sixth inning and allowed a run on an RBI single by Hernan Yanez in the seventh after Smith's second double of the contest. Bourassa struck out the side in the eighth and finished his four-inning save with four strikeouts and two walks.

UIW ended the game with a 8-6 advantage in hits.

Game 2: UIW 1, SDSU 0
Three Cardinal pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout, combining for 11 strikeouts and retiring the last 10 South Dakota State hitters in a row to earn the split of the twinbill.

UIW scored the lone run of the game in the bottom of the second inning as Alec Carr hit a one-out single and Ridge Rogers followed with a run-scoring double to left-center field.

Cardinal starter Michael Garza pitched the first seven innings and finished with seven strikeouts. Seth Higdon fanned the side in order for UIW in the eighth and Chandler David recorded his second save of the series with a perfect ninth inning that included a strikeout. The UIW pitching trio did not walk a batter and hit one.

SDSU hurler Owen Bishop was nearly equal to the task as he ended the game with a career-high eight strikeouts and walked only one. The sophomore right-hander surrendered four hits before turning it over to the Jackrabbit bullpen after 6 2/3 innings.

The Jackrabbits' two hits were an infield single by Jamie Berg in the second inning and a single by Henry George in the sixth.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits are scheduled to play March 2 at Minnesota. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

NOTES

UIW leads the all-time series, 4-1
Parry's grand slam was the first by a Jackrabbit since Landon Badger connected against Oral Roberts on May 20, 2021
Beazley became the first SDSU player with three doubles in a game in 10 years, since Aaron Machbitz recorded three two-baggers versus Western Illinois on May 17, 2012
Bourassa's save was the third of his Jackrabbit career
Bishop's 6 2/3 innings marked the longest outing by an SDSU pitcher this season

-GoJacks.com-