Creighton University
5-6
Kansas State
8-7
Offense Comes Alive, Yet Baseball Falls to Kansas State, 10-5
3/10/2015 9:49:00 PM | Baseball
Manhattan, Kan. - The Creighton bats came alive for five runs on 10 hits, but Creighton Baseball fell to Kansas State 10-5 on Tuesday, March 10.
The loss dropped the Bluejays to 5-6 on the season, while Kansas State moved to 8-7 overall.
After a scoreless first, Kansas State broke through for three runs on three hits against Creighton starter junior Taylor Elman in the bottom of the second.
The Bluejays rallied in the following frame as sophomore Kevin Connolly opened the inning with a single to right. Connolly promptly stole second, then scampered home on a two-out RBI single from sophomore Nicky Lopez.
Kansas State, however, got the run back in the bottom of the third and added another in the fourth to take a 5-1 lead.
Creighton showed some moxie with two runs in the top of the fifth, scoring two runs on two hits and an error. Freshman Devlin Granberg opened the inning with a walk, then went to second via a one-out single from senior David Wiedeman. Granberg later scored on a throwing error, while sophomore Reagan Fowler drove in Granberg before the inning was complete to get it back to a two-run game at 5-3.
The Wildcat offense responded in the bottom of the fifth with two runs on two hits and a Creighton error to push the score to 7-3. Kansas State added a run in the sixth, but the Bluejays weren't done just yet.
Trailing 8-3 with two down in the seventh, Lopez, Fowler and junior Brett Murray laced three straight singles to make it 8-4. The next batter, junior Harrison Crawford, reached on error to load the bases and bring the tying run to the plate. Head coach Ed Servais called upon freshman Luke Horanski to pinch hit. After two balls to open the at-bat, Horanski took a strike then got just under a pitch as he was retired on a ball close to the warning track in left field.
Kansas State tacked on two runs in the seventh, while Fowler laced an RBI double in the ninth to set the final at 10-5.
Elman took the loss (0-1) for Creighton, allowing four runs on six hits in 2.1 innings, while Kansas State's Kyle Halbohn moved to 1-1 with the win. Halbohn, the Wildcat starter, allowed one run on two hits in three innings of work.
Fowler led the Bluejay offense with three hits and two RBI in the loss.
Creighton and Kansas State will continue the midweek tussle on Wednesday, March 11 at 3:00 pm
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Halbohn, Kyle (1-1)
L: Elman, Taylor (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Fowler, Reagan 1
RBI: Lopez, Nicky 1 ; Fowler, Reagan 2 ; Murray, Brett 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Lopez, Nicky 2 ; Granberg, Devlin 1 ; Connolly, Kevin 1 ; Wiedeman, David 1
SB: Connolly, Kevin 1
HBP: Lopez, Nicky 1
Batting:
2B: Conlon, Shane 1 ; Moore, Tyler 1 ; Wolfe, Tyler 1
RBI: Yagi, Carter 3 ; Conlon, Shane 1 ; Serratore, Steve 2 ; Krause, Danny 1 ; Thornton, Dominic 1 ; Wolfe, Tyler 2
SF: Yagi, Carter 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Yagi, Carter 2 ; Conlon, Shane 2 ; Krause, Danny 1 ; Moore, Tyler 1 ; Thornton, Dominic 1 ; Wolfe, Tyler 1 ; Wodtke, Jake 2
SB: Conlon, Shane 1
HBP: Moore, Tyler 1 ; Thornton, Dominic 1
