Box Score

In game one of a three game series at Wichita State, the Dallas Baptist Baseball Team fell 8-5 to the Shockers on Friday night at Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.  The loss drops DBU (31-17, 9-7) two-and-a-half games out of first place in the Missouri Valley Conference standings behind first place Evansville, with five league games remaining on the schedule.

A four-run inning by Wichita State (26-24, 10-6) in the second inning off of Patriot starter, Cy Sneed, spelled trouble for DBU in the early going.  After retiring the first three batters he faced in the first inning on just eight pitches, the Shockers got on the board in the second with a three-run homerun from Dayne Parker.   An RBI single from Erik Harbutz later in the inning put Wichita State up 4-0.

The Patriots struck for a run in the third, when Mike Wesolowski belted his fifth homerun of the season, a solo shot over the wall in left.  Following the Wesolowki round-tripper, DBU cut the Shocker lead in half when RJ Talamantes knocked in Justin Wall on an RBI single to right.

The Shockers added three more runs in their half of the fourth, chasing Sneed from the game.   In three-and-one-third innings of work, the junior from Twin Falls, Idaho, surrendered seven runs on six hits, before giving way to Josh Urban out of the bullpen.

Urban kept the Shockers scoreless until a Casey Gillaspie solo homerun in the seventh extended the Wichita State lead to 8-2.  Gillaspie's blast was his fourteenth of the season to lead the conference.

In the eighth, Austin Listi responded with a two-run shot over the wall in center field.  The homerun was the ninth this year, tying his homerun total from his freshman season in 2013.

In the ninth, KJ Alexander's pinch-hit double down the left field line cut the Shocker's lead to 8-5.  With the tying run on deck, Mike Wesolowski flied out to right. 

The loss is the seventh in eight games all-time versus Wichita State.  The Patriots will look to even the series in game two tomorrow at 2 pm.