Evansville Comes From Behind To Beat SIUE In Baseball

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Evansville took advantage of five walks to score four times in the ninth inning Wednesday and take a 4-2 come-from-behind win over SIUE in nonconference play at Simmons Baseball Complex.

SIUE fell to 8-11 with the loss. Evansville improved to 10-10.

With the Cougars in front 2-0, the Purple Aces loaded the bases in the ninth on three walks by Cougar reliever Mike Miller. Miller struck out two and did not allow a hit. He suffered the loss and fell to 0-3. Caleb Wilkerson relieved Miller and walked in a run before a wild pitch brought home a second run to tie the score. Evansville third baseman Jonathan Ramon singled up the middle to plate two more runs.

"It takes nine guys on a field to win a ballgame," SIUE Head Coach Tony Stoecklin said. "If even one guy doesn't come prepared or doesn't believe that he can do the job then we won't do the job as a team. That's what we learned tonight."

The Cougars broke a scoreless deadlock in the seventh inning with two runs on three hits. Dustin Woodcock doubled  to the wall in right center with one out and then scored a double to the left field corner by Skyler Geissinger. Geissinger scored on an RBI single by Drew Johnson which made it 2-0.

Woodcock and Geissinger each had a pair of hits for the Cougars, who had just seven as a team.