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John Skrbec
Jim Trewin
10
Winner North Dakota State NDSU 6-16, 2-7 Summit
2
Western Illinois WIU 7-15, 4-5 Summit
Winner
North Dakota State NDSU
6-16, 2-7 Summit
10
Final
2
Western Illinois WIU
7-15, 4-5 Summit
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
North Dakota State NDSU 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 5 0 10 12 1
Western Illinois WIU 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 X 2 7 2

W: Keefer, Trent (2-3) L: Preston Church (1-4) S: Flaa, Jay (3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Bison Power to 10-2 Victory at Western Illinois

MACOMB, Ill. – John Skrbec and Juan Gamez combined for three home runs to help the North Dakota State University baseball team (6-16, 2-7 Summit League) beat the Western Illinois Leathernecks (7-15, 4-5 Summit League), 10-2, in the series finale of a three-game Summit League series on Sunday, March 29, at Alfred D. Boyer Stadium.

The Bison are scheduled to return to the diamond next Friday, April 3, when they open a three-game league series at Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Skrbec went 2-for-4 at the plate and drove in three runs with a pair of round-trippers, his first home runs of the season, while Gamez hit his team-high fourth homer of the season and batted in three runs. Taylor Sanders also excelled at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI, respectively.

The three NDSU home runs were the most in a game since the 2013 season, when the Bison connected for three homers in a 9-6 win at Southeast Missouri State.

Bison southpaw Trent Keefer (2-3) tallied the win on the mound after allowing just two earned runs on six hits while striking out five and walking just one batter in six innings of work. RHP Jay Flaa secured his team-best third save of the season after throwing three scoreless innings.

After the Leathernecks tied the game at two with a run in the bottom of the fourth, Skrbec stepped to the plate with no one out in the fifth and sent a 0-2 pitch out the park to plate Brayden Resch, who led-off the inning with a walk, and put the Bison in front, 4-2.

Skrbec struck again in the seventh, powering a long ball to dead centerfield to increase the Bison lead to 5-2.

The Bison added five runs on five hits in the ninth to balloon the advantage to 10-2. Sanders began the scoring with a RBI single, before JT Core drove in another run on a RBI double. Gamez capped the power surge with a three-run round-tripper.

Jake Moore paced Western Illinois at the plate, going 2-for-4, while Brent Turner added a RBI.

Left-hander Preston Church (1-4) took the loss after surrendering three earned runs on six hits in five innings pitched.  

 
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