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  • Welcome home: Indiana State's Ryan Walterhouse (unseen) is swarmed by teammates as he reaches home plate. Walterhouse hit a walk-off two-run home run to end the Sycamore's game with visiting Nebraska-Omaha. The series continues today.

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  • Headed home: Ryan Walterhouse heads toward home plate after hitting the game winning home run Friday evening.

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  • Rally time: With rallly caps, glasses and shirts helping, the Indiana State bench watches Ryan Walterhouse at bat.

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  • It's gone: The Sycamore bench, including Jon Hedges (center) reacts to Ryan Walterhouse's game-ending home run.

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  • Out at first: Indiana State University pitcher Dakota Bacus throws to first after fielding a bunt in the Sycamore's game with Nebraska-Omaha on Friday evening. ISU won with a walk-off home run 2-1.

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  • Got it: Indiana State shortstop Koby Kraemer launches himself after a ground ball in the Sycamore's game with visiting Nebraska-Omaha on Friday evening.

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April 28, 2012

ISU baseball wins walk-off thriller

Walterhouse’s 2-run home run lifts Sycamores

Todd Golden The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Is the Indiana State baseball team living right or living dangerously? Actually, there’s no right or wrong answer. The correct answer is both.

Nebraska-Omaha — ISU’s opponent this weekend at Bob Warn Field — is making its maiden voyage in Division I. ISU’s series against the Mavericks could easily have been viewed as an ill-timed detour from the task at hand as the Sycamores have visions of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid and/or Missouri Valley Conference championship dancing in their heads.

For eight-plus innings, it seemed UNO would provide a rude awakening. The Mavericks shut the Sycamores down and had a one-run lead with one out in the bottom of the ninth. It portended to be a devastating loss for ISU.

Then Ryan Walterhouse made everything all right.

With Jordan Pearson aboard, Walterhouse hit a line-drive home run to left field to give ISU a dramatic 2-1 victory over the Mavericks.

A loss to UNO would have dealt a significant blow to ISU’s at-large hopes. ISU is currently 46th in the Ratings Percentage Index, UNO is 277th. To avoid a RPI drop, 33-10 ISU must sweep the 11-31 Mavericks.

The close call had everyone in the ISU dugout relieved that the game ultimately turned the Sycamores’ way.

“They showed up and made a lot of plays against us. They put pressure on us,” Walterhouse said.

UNO starting pitcher Andrew Reck was most responsible for keeping the Sycamores under wraps. Reck allowed just three hits in seven innings of work and was masterful in conjuring unproductive outs for ISU even when it did have runners aboard. ISU hit into nine 6-3 ground outs; eight came against Reck.

“He had some off-speed pitches and we’re used to guys being in the low 90s as Friday night pitchers. He had average stuff, but he knew how to use it. He shut us down for eight innings or so,” ISU first baseman Jon Hedges said.

Reck was a familiar face for ISU coach Rick Heller.

“He was with me at Northern Iowa when they dropped the program,” Heller said. “I knew he was going to give us a battle. It wasn’t to be for us offensively today.”

ISU starting pitcher Dakota Bacus was just as strong as Reck was. Bacus threw eight innings, struck out eight, and gave up just four hits. One of them, however, was a solo home run by Caleb Palensky that just cleared the right field fence in the sixth inning to put the Mavericks up 1-0.

Hedges gave ISU a one-out lifeline in the ninth when he drew a walk against UNO reliever Curtis Smith. Pearson pinch-ran for Hedges and Walterhouse stepped up. Walterhouse has struggled in recent games, but got a pitch he could drive. He hit a low-liner to left that cleared the fence by about a foot, over the out-stretched glove of UNO left fielder Alex Mortensen.

“I was looking for a pitch up to drive and put in the gap. With Pearson on first, a single gets him to third. Luckily, he hung a slider and I got it on the barrel,” said Walterhouse, who had never hit a walk-off home run at any level.

For UNO, it was a hard-luck loss. The Mavericks have lost four of their last five games by one run. Meanwhile, ISU moved to 8-6 in one-run games.

“We have that never lay down, never die attitude. We overcame it today,” Hedges said.

ISU and UNO hook up for the second game of the series at 2 p.m. today. It was a game originally scheduled to be part of a doubleheader, but it was changed to a single-game earlier this week.



ISU 2, Omaha 1

UNO    ab    r    h    bi    ISU    ab    r    h    bi

Hohl 3b    4    0    0    0    Curry cf    3    0    0    0

Palensky 2b    4    1    1    1    Burnam lf    4    0    0    0

Waldron rf    4    0    1    0    Lucas c    4    0    0    0

McCrite cf    3    0    1    0    Ort rf    4    0    1    0

Mrtnsen lf    3    0    0    0    Hedges 1b    3    0    1    0

Donner ss    3    0    0    0    Pearson pr    0    1    0    0

McGill 1b    3    0    0    0    Wltrhse 3b    4    1    2    2

Mancuso c    3    0    0    0    Kraemer 2b    0    0    0    0

Tmlnsn dh    3    0    1    0    McCurdy dh    3    0    0    0

                    Wampler ss    3    0    0    0

Totals    30    1    4    1    Totals    28    2    4    2

Nebraska-Omaha    000    001    000    —    1

Indiana State    000    000    002    —    2

DP — ISU 1. LOB — UNO 2, ISU 6. 2B — Ort (14), Hedges (8). HR — Palensky (2); Walterhouse (5); SH — Kraemer (11). SB — Curry (12), Kraemer (3).



                                 IP    H    R   ER   BB  SO

Nebraska-Omaha

Reck    7    3    0    0    3    1

Smith (L, 2-5)    11⁄3    1    2    2    1    0

Indiana State

Bacus    8    4    1    1    0    8

Moore (W, 3-3)    1    0    0    0    0    2    

One out when winning run was scored.

WP — Reck (4). T — 1:51. AA — 417.

Next  — ISU (33-10) plays host to Nebraska-Omaha (11-31) at 2 p.m. today.

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