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May 5, 2012

Sycamores top Shockers in 10 innings in MVC series opener

Todd Golden The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — If free baseball is what you want, Indiana State has what you need. For the sixth time in the span of a month, ISU’s series opener went extra innings.

Forget free baseball. What the Sycamores needed was for their imprisoned bats to be freed.

The shackles finally came off in the 10th inning against Wichita State on Friday night at Bob Warn Field.

A Jeremy Lucas ground single down the left-field line scored Landon Curry to give the Sycamores a 1-0 victory that elicited relief as much as it did elation.

“Obviously, we haven’t hit the ball in the last few games or so. We fought hard tonight. We couldn’t get better pitching tonight. We kept giving ourselves a chance to win the game. Luckily, I was able to get a ball through their defense,” Lucas said.

To that point in the game, ISU had been 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position. ISU had just five base hits overall, continuing its recent slump at the plate. ISU has hit .222 in its last six games.

“We talked about it a lot this week. Let’s just get it out in the open — we haven’t been able to get the hits to fall. We haven’t had the two-out knock when we’ve needed it. It’s been going on for a couple of weeks,” ISU coach Rick Heller said. “But the point I wanted to make with the team was we’re still winning. Good pitching and defense win most of the time.”

That’s exactly what ISU got Friday. ISU starter Dakota Bacus pitched seven shutout innings and struck out six batters. The thought of playing the perennially powerful Shockers had the junior college transfer amped up.

“Every pitch … I gave 100 percent. It drained me toward the end because I was in the zone. I felt the intensity. Coach told me before the game they can be intimidating, so I felt I had to be intimidating to them,” Bacus said.

Just as impressive were the three innings of shutout relief tossed by Reggie Hochstedler. The southpaw was particularly tricky in the ninth after Micah Green led off with a single.

Hochstedler dumbfounded WSU catcher Ryan Hege, who couldn’t get a bunt down and eventually struck out. Hochstedler then retired Tyler Baker and struck out Taylor Doggett.

“That’s Reggie. He doesn’t give in when the pressure gets on him. He buckles down and throws his pitches,” Heller said.

Meanwhile, ISU let what few opportunities it had go by the wayside through nine innings. Runners were in scoring position for the Sycamores in the third, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth, but ISU could get neither a base hit nor any quarter from the Shockers.

WSU made no errors through nine innings and got equally impressive pitching performances of its own from starter Josh Smith and reliever Foster Vielock.

WSU finally blinked in the 10th. Tyler Wampler led off with a single to left. WSU left fielder Micah Green bobbled the ball and Wampler dug in for second, sliding in safe ahead of the throw.

Wampler would eventually be forced at third on a sacrifice attempt by Jordan Pearson, but getting to second to lead off affected the way WSU approached the inning. Prior to Pearson’s attempted sacrifice, Landon Curry was intentionally walked to set up a possible double play.

That meant Curry was on second when Lucas came up. His game-winning hit wasn’t solidly hit, but it was good enough to trickle just inside the third-base bag and past WSU third baseman Baker to score the swift Curry.

“I didn’t get great barrel on it, but it found a hole,” Lucas said.

It was ISU’s third consecutive walk-off victory and the Sycamores improved to 6-3 in extra innings and 10-6 in one-run games.

The victory pulled ISU (35-11, 9-4) within a half-game of Missouri State for the Missouri Valley Conference lead. The Bears are playing outside of the MVC this weekend. WSU (28-21, 6-7) fell three games behind the Sycamores.

The Sycamores and Shockers face off again at 2 p.m. today. Sean Manaea (4-1, 3.13) will start for ISU. Kris Gardner (4-1, 2.76) will go for WSU.

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