COOKEVILLE, TENN – The UIC baseball team (4-4, 0-0 MVC) opened the Holiday Inn Classic in dominant fashion, pounding out 11 hits behind lights-out pitching to shut out Tennessee Tech (5-5, 0-0 OVC), 8-0, at Bush Stadium on Friday night.
After a scoreless first inning, the Flames broke through with four runs in the second on base hits from juniors
Thomas Curry,
Lucas Smith and freshman
Sean Cody. UIC added two insurance runs in the middle innings, highlighted by Curry's second RBI of the game on a single that scored Cody and senior
Will Flanigan's RBI single to center that plated senior
Will Smoot from second. Cody accounted for the final two runs in the seventh, ripping a double that brought home Flanigan and junior
Jake Busson.
For the second straight outing, junior
Mason Lei was dominant from the first pitch, tossing seven scoreless innings while allowing three hits, walking two and striking out seven on 93 pitches. Seniors
Michael Vitellaro and
Payton Barton pitched the final two innings, surrendering just one hit over the final two innings as the Flames secured the win.
The box score and the play-by-play will be available at this link
here.
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The Flames return to Bush Stadium tomorrow afternoon to take on Notre Dame (4-3, 0-0 ACC) for an 11 a.m. (CT) first pitch. The game won't be streamed, but live stats will be available at
UICFlames.com.
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