By: John Kean, Sports Information Director
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Two big innings in the early stages of Saturday's game proved to be costly for the Missouri S&T baseball team as Washburn rolled to a
12-2 win over the Miners on the second day of the Heffington Optical Classic.
The Ichabods – former rivals of the Miners in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – scored five runs in the bottom of the first and four more in the second to build a big lead and cruised to the victory.
S&T got its only runs of the day in the second on a one-out home run by catcher
Drew Davenport (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West), and in the third on a sacrifice fly by
Thomas McCormick (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood).
Dan Simenou's three-run homer was the big blow in the first for the Ichabods, then Washburn had five straight runners reach base in the second as part of its four-run outburst.
The Ichabods ended the game with two in the seventh on Bre Sorensen's two-run double.
Brandon Cogan (Missouri City, Texas/Hightower) and
Eaf Redden (Gunter, Texas/Gunter) had two hits apiece out of the six for S&T on the afternoon.
Jordan Buck (Pacific, Mo./Pacific) took the loss for the Miners, who dropped their ninth game in their last 11 outings.
S&T (5-10) will take on Wayne State (Mich.) in a 10 a.m. game Sunday to wrap up the weekend in Springfield.
