WEDNESDAY'S SCORES
@SIUE 15, Saint Louis 5
Western Illinois 10, @Bradley 4
SIUE 15, SAINT LOUIS 5
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - SIUE baseball pulled off another midweek comeback. The Cougars erased a 4-0 deficit after the first inning and beat Saint Louis 15-5 in seven innings Wednesday at Roy E. Lee Field.
SIUE won two of the three games played this season against the Billikens.
SIUE is now 20-17. SLU is 15-22.
Mack Mitchell, Ethan Willoughby, Chase Bloomer and Sean Kang all homered in the win. SIUE has now hit 64 home runs for the year which leads the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Billikens scored four runs with just a single hit in the first inning. SIUE starter Brady Coon left after one-third of an inning. He allowed all four runs. He struck out one.
Gabriel Nutter (2-0) finished the first inning and tossed four innings, allowing a single run. He struck out three.
The Cougars scored six times in the third inning thanks a two-run double by Ryan Niedzwiedz, a two-run home run by Mitchell and another two-run shot by Willoughby.
The Billiken picked up another run, without a hit, in the fourth inning.
Bloomer's three-run blast in the fourth put SIUE up 9-5. Kang's three-run shot in the fifth came in addition to an RBI hit by Mitchell and a bases loaded walk to Willoughby extended the lead to 14-5. Bloomer added an RBI single in the sixth inning to extend the lead to 10.
Bloome finished with four RBIs. Mitchell, Willoughby and Kang all had three RBIs.
Brennen Grams worked 1.2 scoreless innings and Nicholas Moten tossed a scoreless seventh inning.
WESTERN ILLINOIS 10, BRADLEY 4
PEORIA, Ill. - The Western Illinois baseball team delivered a strong offensive performance on the road Tuesday, defeating Bradley 10-4.
The Leathernecks wasted no time getting on the board, scoring in the opening before shooting for four runs in the second. A grand slam from Liam Bushey highlighted the early surge, giving WIU a 5-0 lead that they would not lose.
Western Illinois continued to put pressure on the Braves throughout the game, adding single runs in the third and multiple runs in the fifth, eighth, and ninth innings. The Leathernecks finished with 14 hits on the day, led by Bushey's three-hit, four-RBI performance. Isaiah Monge also had a standout performance, going 4-for-5 at the plate, while Joe Connolly and Cordell Coburn each recorded multi-hit games.
On the mound, Billy Humphrey earned the win after tossing four scoreless innings, striking out four and limiting Bradley's offense early. The bullpen combined to hold off any late rally attempts, despite the Braves pushing across four runs in the final innings.
With the victory, the Leathernecks secured their first season sweep of Bradley since 1991, marking the first time WIU has won both matchups against the Braves in the same season in over three decades.