After a midweek letdown against Cincinnati and a series-opening loss to Pacific a week ago, the Indiana lineup looked lost, scraping out just four runs on 11 hits over the course of those two games, a dismal offensive output that only gets worse when you factor in the inability to come up with a clutch knock in either contest. But all along, the Hoosier pitching staff was still in stride, save a bad midweek start in that loss to the Bearcats.
The pitching staff was responsible for the last two wins against Pacific to take that series, and a in a midweek win over Western Illinois, the bats finally came alive for Indiana and the club stormed through a weekend sweep of Northern Illinois over the past few days to stretch its winning streak to six and position itself in the thick of the national conversation as the RPI begins to matter and conference play approaches.