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Matt Bottcher
22
Winner UIC UIC 22-16, 21-11 Horizon
7
Purdue Fort Wayne PFW 10-29, 7-22 Horizon
Winner
UIC UIC
22-16, 21-11 Horizon
22
Final
7
Purdue Fort Wayne PFW
10-29, 7-22 Horizon
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UIC UIC 2 6 1 4 0 0 4 0 5 22 24 1
Purdue Fort Wayne PFW 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 12 3

W: Key, Jacob (6-3) L: Gerald Pintarich (1-6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Key Breaks Record, Flames Blow Out Mastodons

Jacob Key became UIC’s all-time leader in career strikeouts as UIC dominates Purdue Fort Wayne, 22-7, in series opener

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Jacob Key became UIC's all-time leader in career strikeouts Friday afternoon while the Flames offense put up big numbers in a 22-7 blowout victory over Purdue Fort Wayne.
 
Key, who earned his team-leading sixth win of the season, struck out six batters to set the new all-time mark of 260 strikeouts. The righty surpassed Steve Carlson, who previously held the record with 258 career punchouts.
 

Offensively, the 22 runs are the most by UIC since a 23-2 win over Youngstown State on April 21, 2017, while the 24 hits are the most by the Flames since at least the start of the 2015 season.
 
Ten different batters recorded at least one hit, led by Thomas Norton and Cory Moore who both finished the afternoon 4-for-5 from the plate. Matt Bottcher went 3-for-5, including a pair of walks, while driving in a game-high seven runs and falling a double shy of the cycle.
 
The Flames scored in all by three innings Friday afternoon, including a six-run second, a five-run ninth and a pair of four-run innings in the fourth and seventh.
 
All told, the Flames set season highs in at bats (47), runs scored (22), hits (24), RBIs (19) and walks (11), while matching their season high in hit by pitches (4). Bottcher's seven RBIs are an individual season high and the most by a player in a single game since Rob Calabrese drove in eight against Northern Illinois on April 11, 2017.
 
After UIC jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first, the Mastodons countered with a pair in the home half of the inning. The graduate student settled down, scattering five hits and three walks over the final six innings, allowing no runs and striking out four.
 
UIC's offense took over, giving Key plenty of cushion, scoring 15 unanswered runs between the second and seventh innings before the 'Dons scratched across a run in the bottom of the seventh. Five more Flames came around to score in the top of the ninth before Purdue Fort Wayne tacked on four of their own to cut UIC's margin of victory down to 15.
 
The two teams will resume their four-game series tomorrow with a doubleheader, with first pitch of the first game slated for 11 a.m. (CT).
 
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