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Drue Galassi made a diving catch in the seventh inning to keep two runs from scoring.
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South Dakota State SDSU 14-16, 7-7 Summit
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Winner Western Illinois WIU 11-21, 8-6 Summit
South Dakota State SDSU
14-16, 7-7 Summit
4
Final
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Western Illinois WIU
11-21, 8-6 Summit
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
South Dakota State SDSU 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 13 2
Western Illinois WIU 2 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 X 8 14 1

W: Church, Preston (3-3) L: Austin Kost (1-6)

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Winner South Dakota State SDSU 15-16, 8-7 Summit
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Western Illinois WIU 11-22, 8-7 Summit
Winner
South Dakota State SDSU
15-16, 8-7 Summit
13
Final
5
Western Illinois WIU
11-22, 8-7 Summit
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
South Dakota State SDSU 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 4 13 19 0
Western Illinois WIU 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 5 6 2

W: Bryce Hanson (3-0) L: Drake, Javin (2-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | WIU Athletic Communications

Western Takes Series from SDSU

Leathernecks hit six extra-base hits in the 8-4 victory in game one of doubleheader


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MACOMB, Ill. – Western Illinois split a Saturday Summit League baseball doubleheader but took the weekend series from South Dakota State. The Leathernecks won the opener 8-4 but lost the nightcap 13-5.
 
The Leathernecks improved to 8-7 in the Summit League and 11-22 overall while SDSU moves to 15-16 and 8-7.
 
GAME 1 – Western Illinois 8, SDSU 4
Preston Church recorded consecutive strikeouts in the top of the first to finish off the Jackrabbits. Cord Church started Western's half of the inning by reaching on an error. Adam McGinnis lined a RBI double and he eventually scored on Johnathan Fleek's RBI single for a 2-0 lead.
 
SDSU got a two-out RBI single in the second to make it 2-1, then took the lead in the third. Matt Johnson and Philip Jacobson delivered RBI singles for a 3-2 lead. It was short lived though and the Leathernecks erupted for five runs in their half of the inning to take the lead for good.
 
The first five batters of the inning all reached and scored. McGinnis singled, Chris Tschida singled and Fleek was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Deion Thompson hit a 2-run double to centerfield then Roman Visintine lined a 2-run triple to center. Mitch Ellis' RBI single made it 7-3.
 
Visintine added a run-scoring single in the fourth to extend the lead to 8-3. A 2-out RBI single for the Jackrabbits in the seventh accounted for the final margin.
 
Preston Church (3-3) gave up three runs on seven hits in six innings of work. He walked four and struck out five. Connor Rektorski worked an inning of relief and Nate Westfahl blanked SDSU over the final two innings, matching his career-high of four strikeouts.
 
McGinnis and Thompson both finished with two doubles and three hits. Thompson drove in two and scored two runs. Visintine set a personal-high with three RBI, going 2-for-4 at the plate including his Summit League-leading fourth triple.
 
Nick Smith and Luke Ringhofer had three hits apiece for SDSU. Austin Kost (1-6) was charged for seven runs on seven hits in two innings.
 
 
GAME 2 – SDSU 13, Western Illinois 5
The Jackrabbits wanted to avoid the sweep right at the start. After Smith reached on a single, Josh Kunzmann hit a 2-run homer and Matt Johnson followed with a solo shot for a 3-0 lead. SDSU got a solo homer from Anthony Schneider in the third inning making it 4-0. The lead grew to 9-0 in the fourth inning following a four-run outburst.
 
Western began chipping away at the deficit, starting in its half of the fourth. Thompson reached on a line drive single. Ben Sellers walked but was erased on a ground ball double play. Steve McShane and Visintine walked to load the bases. Thompson scored on a wild pitch during Drew Galassi's at-bat, who eventually walked to load the bases again. McGinnis dropped a 2-run single into shallow right field, then during the next at-bat Galassi scored on a wild pitch to make it 9-4.
 
Western got another run back in the fifth when Ellis reached on a bunt single, advanced to second when Visintine was hit by a pitch and scored on Galassi's RBI single.
 
SDSU reliever Bryce Hanson (3-0) entered the game in the fourth inning and limited Western from there, not giving up a hit from Galassi's RBI single in the fifth to his single in the eighth.
 
The Jackrabbits added four insurance runs in the ninth for the final margin.
 
Javin Drake (2-5) was charged for seven runs (six earned) on eight hits in three innings. He walked one and struck out three. J.T. Baksha pitched three scoreless innings of relief, striking out two.
 
Galassi and Ellis had two hits apiece. Both teams stranded 12 runners in the game.
 
McGinnis and Thompson both finished the weekend hitting .417 (5-of-12) for the Leathernecks with three and four runs scored, respectively.
 
SDSU recorded 19 hits in the nightcap, led by Smith's five hits from the leadoff spot. He finished with eight hits on the day. Six different SDSU players had a multi-hit game.
 
Western returns to Alfred D. Boyer Stadium on Tuesday (April 18) for a 4 p.m. game against SIU-Edwardsville.
 
 
 
 
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