Box Score

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – It was an all-around quality game for the University of Evansville baseball team who scored 11 runs on 17 hits and shut out the visiting IPFW Mastodons, as the Aces won, 11-0, Friday night at Braun Stadium. With the victory, UE improves to 13-9 on the season, while IPFW fell to a 4-14 record.

Sophomore Kyle Lloyd (2-2) earned the win on the mound, throwing seven scoreless innings, allowing four scattered hits, a walk, while striking out five. Freshman James Kohler wrapped up the combined shutout, hurling the eighth and ninth innings, giving up two hits, a walk, striking out one.

At the plate, senior Ryan Oesterle sparked the Aces, going 4-for-5 with a run batted in and run scored. Senior Ty Legan also had a stellar game with his 3-for-4 effort with an RBI and run scored in the designated hitter position. Senior Cody Fick, senior Nate Smith, and junior Trentt Copeland also had multi-hit games, while Fick, senior Jared Baehl, and freshman Jake Mahon all recorded two RBI.

Starting in the second, the Aces scored multiple runs for four straight innings, plating all 11 runs in the second through fifth inning window. After senior Greg Wallace reached base on an error, Smith, Copeland, and Legan hit three straight singles, bringing in two runs, and Mahon’s sacrifice fly to centerfield with one out gave Evansville a quick 3-0 head start.

The Aces kept it going in the third inning when Fick and Oesterle both singled through the left side of the infield and advanced a base each on a double steal. Baehl crushed a triple off the right field wall, scoring the two and extending UE’s lead to 5-0.

In the fourth, Legan led off the inning with a single and stole two bases, advancing to third. He scored on Stamets’ single through the left side. Stamets stole second and then third as a part of another double steal after Wallace walked. Evansville tallied eight stolen bases on the night, led by Legan’s three and Stamets’ two. Fick knocked home Stamets on a sacrifice fly, and Wallace scored on Oesterle’s RBI single up the middle to put the Aces up 8-0.

All nine batters stepped foot in the box in the fifth, starting with Smith’s leadoff walk. Copeland recorded the first of UE’s five hits in the inning, advancing Smith to third, allowing him to score on a wild pitch by starter Nick Opitz. Mahon drove in Copeland on a single to right, and with two outs, Wallace, Fick, and Oesterle hit three consecutive singles. Mahon scored on Fick’s ball knocked down by the shortstop, giving the Aces their 11-0 score.

Opitz (1-4) threw circa 140 pitches on the night, going seven innings, allowing 11 runs, nine earned, on 17 hits, two walks, while striking out five. Colton Summers came out of the bullpen to throw a scoreless, hitless eighth.

The Aces have two more contests with the Mastodons, taking the field tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. CDT at Braun Stadium and then again Sunday at 1:00 p.m.