Eastern Kentucky @ ISU (3/18)--Game One--Won 10-3

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The Sycamores (6-9) take on Eastern Kentucky (6-10) this evening at 6:00 (ET) at Bob Warn Field in the first of a three game series. Eastern Kentucky enters the weekend with a 6-10 record, going 6-2 at home and 0-8 on the road. The Trees will look to extend that away losing streak!

Weatherwise, we're facing the chance for light showers this afternoon with northerly winds at about 10 mph and a high of 63. No chance of rain Saturday, but there's currently at 50/50 chance for thunderstorms on Sunday.

The Sycamores went 1-3 over their four games at home last weekend, topping Western Illinois in the series opener before falling in the next three (twice to Western Michigan and once to Western Illinois). ISU's three-game skid is their longest since games four through six of last season when ISU fell in the first three games of a series to Texas - San Antonio in February of 2010.

Despite their 1-3 record as a pitching staff, ISU's pitchers finished the weekend with a 3.50 ERA along with 35 strikeouts and just 12 walks over 36.0 innings on the mound.

Colin Rea (3-1, 4.68 ERA) will look to get ISU on the right track. But the real key to victory is to awaken the bats that were so quiet last weekend. ISU's team batting average fell over the past two weeks from .307 to .292. In addition, errors were costly last weekend, as were other free bags!

EKU will trot out the same pitching rotation that swept UNC Asheville at Turkey Hughes Field last weekend. Junior right-hander Matt Fyffe (0-2, 3.75) will start game one, freshman lefty Kyle McGrath (2-0, 7.31 ERA) will start game two and senior right-hander Stephen Hefler (2-1, 2.10 ERA) will start game three.

Today's start for EKU, Matt Fyffe, has just 12 innings under his belt in five appearances (two starts). He has given up 16 hits and five earned runs, with 12K's and just three walks. Five of those hits are for extra bags--four doubles and a homer.

The Colonels offensively are batting .280...but have a powerful heart of the order, led by Richie Rodriguez (.429 & .493 obp), Jacob Daniel (.352 & four homers), Matt Phipps (.333) and Austin Grisham (.327). So, our pitching is key to getting the wins this weekend...and its their pitching that has been a weak spot so far this season on the road.

This weekend's series with will be the seventh, eighth and ninth meetings between the teams, with Indiana State leading the series, 5-1. The Sycamores and Colonels last met in 2003 when ISU swept a three-game series at Turkey Hughes Field. EKU’s last win over ISU came the year before in 2002.

This weekend's games are available through live stats, Twitter, WISU Radio (on-line) and SycamoreVision live video (for the first time). Here's the link to the gosycamores.com story on this weekend's games, which has links at the top of the story to all of the mediums!:

http://www.gosycamores.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=65128&SPID=7256&DB_OEM_ID=15200&ATCLID=205118204

Be sure to check out this week's "Game Notes" for in-depth info on the weekend series.
 
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First pitch at 6:07. Cloudy with 48 degrees. Light showers in the area to the south of I-70. Rain earlier in the afternoon. No rain is threatening right now.

No score after one inning.

No score through two innings.

Scoreless through three innings.

Still scoreless through four. Four innings done in 45 minutes!

Scoreless through five! Five innings in 55 minutes!

Going to bottom of sixth. Just three hits for each team. One walk for EKU. Two for ISU--both in sixth. Burnam bunts for a single to load bases. Fourth hit for ISU. Ort singles to right to drive in Richart. 1-0 in favor of ISU. Hileman scores on an error by catcher on through home on infield grounder. 2-0. Bases loaded with no outs. One away with a 6-4 putout. Burnam scores. 3-0. Runners at first and third. Double steal scores one run. While Walterhouse was trying to reach second, he slipped, but no tag made and Ort scores. Walterhouse safe on second. 4-0. Ferguson strikes out for out number two. Walterhouse scores on single to center by Hedges. 5-0. Miera flies out to left. ISU leads 5-0. Five runs on three hits, a couple of walks and one EKU error. Three runs were earned.

Bottom of seventh, Ort doubles in Burnam from first on a double. Two outs. New EKU pitcher. ISU leads 6-0. Ort to third on wild pitch. Kraemer reaches on error on short. Ort scores (unearned). 7-0 after seven.

Top of eighth. EKU gets unearned run on single, past ball, wild pitch and sac ground-out to short. Score now 7-1.

New pitcher for EKU in bottom of eight. Ferguson hbp. With one out, goes to second on single by Miera. Wild pitch sends runners to second and third. Ferguson scores on groundout. 8-1 lead for ISU. Two outs. Hileman gets to third on a double and an error. Miera scores. 9-1. Single by Burnam scores Hileman. 10-1. Ort flies out to third in foul territory. 10-1 after eight.

Rea comes to mound in ninth to get a complete game. One unearned run against Rea on four hits and one walk. He has three strikeouts. With one out, Hileman slips on slick outfield and EKU gets a single. Batter strikes out for out number two. Two out single puts runners at first and second. Rea has just over 100 pitches on the night. Single to right field plates a run. Three singles in the inning for EKU. Now 10-2. Runner steals second. Runners at second and third. Batter walks. New Pitcher in to get final out with bases loaded. Brandon Flora comes on in relief. Flora is making his sixth appearance and has not given up an earned run yet this season in four innings of relief. Wild pitch scores a run on an 0-2 count. Hile man make catch for final out. ISU wins 10-3.
 
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