NORMAL, Ill. – The Illinois State baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader with No. 25 Indiana State on Friday at Duffy Bass Field. The Redbirds were edged, 4-2, in game one before falling, 6-1, in game two.
Fifth-year senior Colton Johnson shined in a first-game pitchers' duel, throwing six innings and striking out six batters. Johnson gave up five hits, three unearned runs, one walk.
Runs were hard to come by for Illinois State (11-17 overall, 3-3 Missouri Valley Conference), which scored just one run in the final 15 innings of the doubleheader after a two-run home run by fifth-year senior Jordan Libman in the 1st inning of game one.