SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Despite matching Missouri State hit for hit, the University of Evansville baseball team came out on the wrong end of an 11-4 decision in their Missouri Valley Conference series finale on a frosty Sunday afternoon at Hammons Field in Springfield, Mo.
"The hits-to-runs ratio was a problem all game for us", said University of Evansville head coach Wes Carroll. "Eleven runs on eleven hits is a tough stat for our offense to come back from."
With a shortage of starting pitching, the Purple Aces pressed senior right hand reliever Dalton Horstmeier into service. Horstmeier got himself in and out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of first inning unscathed.