SUNDAY'S SCORES
Lindenwood 13-13, @Mississippi Valley State 2-0
@Morehead State 12, St. Bonaventure 8 (Lexington, SC)
Southern Illinois 9,
@Tennessee Tech 1
UT Martin 14, @Georgia State 9
@#17 Dallas Baptist 10,
SIUE 2
@New Mexico State 9,
Western Illinois 5
Eastern Illinois 7, @Arkansas State 1
Southern Indiana 9-0, @Evansville 1-13
Southeast Missouri 11, Northern Illinois 1 (Oxford, AL)
LINDENWOOD 13-13, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE 2-0
ITTA BENA, Miss. - The Lindenwood baseball team (4-4) picked up two wins on Sunday, completing the sweep of Mississippi Valley State. Lindenwood put up 13 runs in both games.
In game one, Lindenwood kept the hot bats going and put up three runs in the top of the first, as the first three Lions reached base. The Black and Gold added another run in the top of the second when an RBI single from Kam Edwards brought home Charlie Isom-McCall. Mississippi Valley would answer back with a run in the bottom half of the second inning, making the score 4-1 after two innings.
The Lions grew their lead to 7-1 in the fourth with a two-out rally. After a pair of walks, Filip Sarota brought them all home with his third homer of the season. Edwards drove in another run in the fifth, extending the advantage to 8-1.
Lindenwood continued to pour it on in the eight with RBI's from Sam Grunberg, Isom-McCall, and Tyler Thompson, allowing the Lions to finish the game off in eight and pick up the 13-2 victory.
Zach Buschschulte (1-1) was terrific on the mound, spinning six innings of one-run ball, while striking out five.
In game two, Lindenwood finished off a sweep of Mississippi Valley State in a rain shorted 13-0 win, picking up two wins on Sunday. The Lions got a run in the top of the first as Thompson drove in Isom-McCall. Thompson drove in another run in the third, putting Lindenwood up 2-0.
The Lions broke the game open with six runs in the fourth. Mitch Cummins, Brodie Barker, Thompson, and Edwards all drove in runs, giving Lindenwood an 8-0 lead. The Black and Gold added three more in the fifth as Evan Funkhouser doubled home two runs and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch.
Jake Radosevich hit his first home run in a Lindenwood uniform, making the score 12-0 in the sixth. Barker doubled home another run in the inning and Lindenwood picked up the 13-0 victory in game two.
Ethan Smith was terrific on the mound, tossing six scoreless innings, while striking out five en route to his first win of the season.
MOREHEAD STATE 12, ST. BONAVENTURE 8
LEXINGTON, S.C. - Morehead State (4-2) pounded out 12 hits and got multi-hit games from four players as the Eagles beat St. Bonaventure (4-3) 12-8 to clinch the series over the Bonnies in Lexington, S.C.
MSU catcher Hunter Thomas blasted two home runs, drove in three runs and scored three runs. The senior from Russell Springs, Ky., has four home runs and 12 runs batted in through the first two weeks of the season.
Freshman second baseman Aubrey Kearns went three for four on the day, hitting his first career home run in the second inning, and shortstop Andy Cisneros got two hits and drove in three runs. Left fielder rapped two hits and drove in a run.
Junior Ethan Davis (1-0) picked up win out of the bullpen. In two innings he gave up one earned run on one hit, walked one and struck out two SBU batters. Senior Will Grimmett picked up the save (1) facing the last batter in the ninth.
Morehead State pitching gave up eight runs, all earned, on 12 hits. They walked five batters and recorded five strikeouts. SBU left nine runners on base.
The Bonnies' Jaxson Ross (0-1) took the loss allowing two earned runs in facing three batters in the fifth. St. Bonaventure pitching gave up 12 runs, 11 earned, on 12 hits. They walked nine Eagle batters and struck out six. Morehead State left 10 runners on base.
St. Bonaventure opened the top of the first inning with a leadoff single by center fielder Jayce Tharnish, who scored on a double steal with one out.
The Bonnies struck again in the top of the second, scoring three runs on three hits to go up 4-0. SBU scored single runs in the third and fifth innings and added two in the ninth.
After giving up a run in the top of the third, Morehead State got two runs on Thomas' third home run of the season, a drive over the left field fence to trim the lead to 5-3.
The Eagles threatened again in the fourth, shortstop Andy Cisneros hit a no-out bases-loaded single up the middle to score Kearns to make it 5-4. Morehead State stranded three runners on base.
MSU plated four runs in the fifth and Thomas added another in the sixth with a blast over the left field wall to extend the lead to 8-6. The Eagles added three more in the seventh highlighted by third baseman Griffin Olsen's two-RBI single.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 9, TENNESSEE TECH 1
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - It was just one of those days for the Tennessee Tech baseball team Sunday afternoon, as Southern Illinois squared the weekend series behind a 9-1 victory over the Golden Eagles at Quillen Field and Bush Stadium at the Averitt Express Baseball Complex.
The Salukis (2-3) found their offensive groove in the second game of the series after the purple and gold (6-1) limited the visitors to just two runs in the series opener on Saturday. Southern Illinois mashed out 14 hits on the day while starter Alec Nigut held the Tech bats to just five base knocks of their own.
The two sides traded zeroes over the opening three frames, but it was the visitors from up north that broke through first. SIU's Cecil Lofton snapped the scoreless tie with a lead-off home run to right field to lead off the fourth.
The Salukis made it a 2-0 lead in the fifth, using an RBI single to double their advantage. The Golden Eagles strung together a mini rally in the fifth to plate their lone run of the contest, with first baseman Carter Vrabel singling to center field with one out.
After SIU picked up its second out, the Cookeville crew drew three consecutive walks, with left fielder Jackson Green earning an RBI for his free pass with the bases loaded. The Saluki answered back with a monster sixth frame, plating five runs on six hits, including another long ball, three singles, and a triple.
Equipped with a 7-1 advantage, Southern Illinois tacked on two more runs in the seventh to make it an eight-run contest.
Third baseman Preston Steel paced the Tech bats with a 2-for-4 day while Vrabel scored the purple and gold's lone run.
Freshmen hurlers Jaxon Pridgen and Logan Moller combined to shut out the Saluki offense over the final 2.2 innings of the contest. Pridgen finished off the final two outs of the seventh while securing his first career strikeout. Moller closed out the ninth, forcing a foul-out, a pop-up, and a ground-out.
UT MARTIN 14, GEORGIA STATE 9
ATLANTA - The University of Tennessee at Martin baseball team exploded at GSU Baseball Complex for a season-best scoring tally, handing Georgia State its first loss of the season in a 14-9 triumph.
UT Martin (3-3) saw five players put on multi-hit performances in TJ Grines (career-high four hits, three runs scored, two RBI, two stolen bases, double away from the cycle), Jalen Fithian (three hits, one double, two RBI), Brody Capps (two hits, three RBI, three runs scored, two walks, home run, one stolen base), Cameron Greene (three hits, one run scored) and Blaze Bell (three hits, three RBI, two runs scored, one walk). Garner Anderson (one run scored, one walk), Jordan Hudson (bases-clearing triple in the fifth inning) and Jonah Katsaboulas (one hit, two runs scored, one RBI, one walk) added more offense for a Skyhawk group that outhit Georgia State by a 17-11 margin.
Jacob Sitton started the game on the mound, going 3.1 innings with two strikeouts. Zach Wager (0.2 innings pitched), Austin Gast (0.1 inning), JP Nunn (0.2 innings pitched, two strikeouts), Mason Shropshire (two innings pitched, three strikeouts) and Kaleb Baskin (two scoreless innings pitched, one hit allowed, three strikeouts) all spent time on the bump out of the bullpen with Gast earning his first victory in a UT Martin uniform.
For the sixth straight game, it was the Skyhawk offense that got to work early by scoring the contest’s first runs – this time coming off a Fithian single in the second frame. Bell would make it 3-0 after a two-run base hit to bring in Katsaboulas and Grines during the third.
Sitton worked through the first three innings by only allowing one hit and two base runners to keep the lead in the Skyhawks favor. The Panthers (5-1) got on the board in the home half of the fourth inning but still trailed by one after Wager emerged from the bullpen and retired the final out of the frame.
UT Martin got those runs back and more during the top part of the fifth. A bases loaded walk drawn by Bell plated Capps and with the bases still juiced, Hudson cleared the pond on a triple to up the Skyhawk advantage to 7-2. The offense wouldn’t yield yet as Fithian laced a double to left center and Grines belted his first long ball of the year to plate two more runs. Katsaboulas put the cherry on top of the fifth from an RBI single as UT Martin batted around in the inning to make the score 11-2 once the dust settled.
Georgia State mixed things up in the bottom half of the inning with three runs off four hits to cut its deficit to six. However, Nunn struck out the final two batters to limit the damage for the Panthers.
Two runners got in scoring position for Georgia State in the sixth but Shropshire stranded both, recording three straight outs from back-to-back punchouts and a flyout to close the inning.
Once again, the Skyhawks answered – this time from a three-run rocket over the wall in left center off the bat of Capps. The Panthers scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh but wouldn’t get closer than five runs the rest of the way as Baskin silenced the Georgia State bats over the final two frames to cap off the victory.
#17 DALLAS BAPTIST 10, SIUE 2
DALLAS - Dallas Baptist completed the three-game sweep of SIUE with a 10-2 win Sunday afternoon.
The Cougars dropped to 2-4. Dallas Baptist is 5-1.
Ryan Niedzwiedz homered and finished with a pair of hits and Kyle Ratliff had two hits to lead the Cougars.
Niezwiedz homered with two outs in the first to get the scoring started. It was 3-1 DBU in the fourth when the Cougars got on the board a second time. Niedzwiedz doubled to start the inning and was sacrificed to third base. He scored on a sacrifice fly by Michael Siemer.
Patriots' catcher Jay Grant hit a grand slam in the bottom of the inning to stretch the lead to 7-2. DBU scored three more in the fifth for the 10-2 final.
Joshua Heyder had the only other Cougar hit, picking up a pinch hit in the ninth.
Brady Coon (0-1) started and worked three innings for the Cougars. He allowed three runs on four hits.
Tyler Davis and Kieran Bailey combined to finish the game with 3 1/3 scoreless innings.
NEW MEXICO STATE 9, WESTERN ILLINOIS 5
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Leatherneck Baseball team fought until the final out but ultimately came up short, falling 9-5 to New Mexico State on Sunday afternoon at Presley Askew Field.
The offense came alive late, scoring four runs in the final two innings to keep things interesting. After being held to just one run through seven innings, WIU put together a big eighth inning. Liam Bushey would walk with the bases loaded to bring in a run and Krayton Morse delivered a clutch two-run single cutting in to the Aggie lead, making it 8-4.
Freshman Kenneth Perez provided a spark for the Leathernecks with a lead-off solo home run in the ninth and finished the day 2-for-4 with an RBI. Trevor Leon also turned in a strong performance at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a run scored.
On the mound, starter Jorge Romero (0-1) allowed four earned runs over 4.1 innings. He struck out three but gave up a pair of home runs. Out of the bullpen, Karsten Stotlar provided a solid 1.1 innings of relief, striking out one while allowing just one hit.
EASTERN ILLINOIS 7, ARKANSAS STATE 1
JONESBORO, Ark. - Tyler Conklin was dealing for Eastern Illinois on Sunday afternoon as the Panthers (2-2, 0-0 OVC) picked up a 7-1 win in their series opener at Arkansas State (1-4, 0-0 Sun Belt).
The preseason OVC Player to Watch went eight innings, allowing just two hits with five strikeouts while surrendering zero earned runs. It was the longest outing of Conklin's career.
A-State's first six batters were retired in order before a Kaden Amundson lead-off double in the bottom of the third gave the Redwolves their first baserunner. Amundson advanced to third on a fly out before a throwing error allowed him take home and give Arkansas State their first and only run of the ballgame.
The Panthers defense would only allow two more baserunners through the remaining six innings as the pitching faced just two above the minimum.
Eastern's first run of the game came in the fifth inning as a two-out base hit from Tyler Castro drove home Chris Worcester.
Then, with two out and the bases loaded in the sixth, Eli Hill came through with a clutch single that scored Pierce Bauerle and Zak Goodwin to push the Panthers in front 3-1.
Brett Stanley tacked on one more with an RBI single in the seventh before a Cade Zalewski pinch hit double with two outs and the bases loaded cleared the bags to make the score 7-1.
After another scoreless inning from Conklin in the eighth, Christian Carew was tasked with finishing the game. The senior from Colorado picked up right where No. 34 left off, retiring the A-State side in order to secure the win for Big Blue.
SOUTHERN INDIANA 9-0, EVANSVILLE 1-13
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - University of Southern Indiana Baseball split a doubleheader with the University of Evansville Sunday afternoon at Charles Braun Stadium. The Screaming Eagles took the opening game, 9-1, but lost the nightcap, 13-0.
USI ends the day 4-2 overall in 2025, while Evansville is 1-5 to begin its season.
USI junior right-hander Blake Kimball blanked the Aces for six-plus innings and senior centerfielder Khi Holiday drove in four runs as the Eagles cruised to a 9-2 win in the opening game.
On the mound, Kimball (2-0) went 6.2 scoreless innings in picking up his second win of the season, allowing two hits and stranding nine Aces on base. He also held Evansville hitless for the first 4.1 frames.
Sophomore right-hander Aaron Rubio picked up the save after getting Kimball and the Eagles out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh. Rubio went 2.1 innings allowing only a run for his second save of the season.
The USI offensive got going in the third inning with a pair of runs and extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth. The Eagles would put the game away in the eighth scoring six times for a 9-0 advantage before the Aces picked up a tally in the ninth for the 9-1 win.
Holiday led USI at the plate with a pair of hits, scored twice, and drove in four RBIs in the victory. He had the big three-run single to highlight USI's six-run eighth inning.
It was the Ace's turn in the nightcap as they scored 11 times in the fourth inning and cruised to a 13-0 victory. The Eagles were held to two hits and left four batters on base in the loss.
USI junior right-hander Andres Gonzalez started and took the loss for the Eagles. Gonzalez (0-1) was nearly perfect through the first three innings before the Aces touched him for the first three UE runs on four hits. He also posted four strikeouts in the three-plus innings.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 11, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 1
OXFORD, Ala. - LHP Haden Dow (1-1) picked up his first victory of the season as Southeast Missouri Baseball (3-3) rattled Northern Illinois (2-4) by a final score of 11-1 in eight innings in the series finale on Sunday evening.
Dow pitched an impressive 5.0 innings in the outing with a season-high eight strikeouts. The final five hitters that Dow faced all fell victim to a strikeout. Dow allowed just one hit in the outing while just one unearned run came into score.
The Redhawks got on the board first in the bottom of the first inning after a one-out double by Michael Mugan to right field put a Redhawk in scoring position. Left fielder Ty Stauss drilled a single up the middle to drive in Mugan. For Stauss, the RBI was the first of the season as he finished 2-4 with the RBI, a run scored, and a walk.
SEMO's biggest inning came in the third inning beginning with a leadoff double by short stop Andrew Ramirez. A perfectly executed sacrifice bunt by Brooks Kettering moved Ramirez to third base before an RBI single by Michael Mugan plated the second run of the game.
Stauss' second hit of the ball game put Redhawks on first and second with just one out against NIU's starting pitcher Max Vaisvila (1-1). After a SEMO strikeout, Bryce Cannon grounded a ball to the NIU second baseman who booted it allowing Mugan to come into score from second base.
After Cole Warehime was hit-by-a-pitch, third baseman Mikey Rocha roped a single to left field to drive in two RBIs as the Redhawks blew the game open to make it 5-1 SEMO.
A single from Shea McGahan loaded the bases bringing Ramirez back to the plate as he blasted his second double of the inning, a bases clearing double to make it 8-1 SEMO after the third inning.
From there, it was all Redhawks pitching as Dow completed 5.0 innings and was removed for LHP Jackson Kranawetter.
Kranawetter, making his second appearance in 2025, pitched 2.0 innings of scoreless baseball allowing just one NIU hit. He punched out four Huskies over seven hitters.
RHP #31 Gavin Johnston sealed the deal with 1.0 innings of scoreless baseball, recording a strikeout. On the day, SEMO pitching totaled 13 strikeouts.
The Redhawks would add three more runs to seal the eighth inning victory as Brooks Kettering roped a fifth inning double that brought in Ramirez and Warehime to score. Bryce Cannon recorded a walkoff single in the bottom of the eighth inning to seal the 11-1 victory.