TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology took down Wabash on Wednesday night 6-0 thanks to a dominant outing by the Rose-Hulman pitching staff.
The Fightin' Engineers pitching staff shut down the powerful Little Giants' bats with nine innings of shutout baseball while only allowing five total hits and striking out three batters.
Korey Marlow,
Paul Durell,
Schuyler Wilcox, and
Evan Chung each threw two innings.
Isaac Wanninger then came in to close it in the ninth by getting out of a bases loaded, one-out jam.
The Fightin' Engineers offense got started in the third inning with an RBI single by
Colter Couillard-Rodak.
In the fifth inning, Rose-Hulman would extend their lead with a two-run single by
Mark Serdinak and an RBI single by
Blake Deckard.
In the sixth, the Fightin' Engineers would continue to tack on with a pair of home runs by Couillard-Rodak and
Ben Christiansen.
Couillard-Rodak led the team with three hits, and Christiansen added a pair.
Rose-Hulman improved to 10-6 on the season, while Wabash dropped to 14-7. The Fightin' Engineers will return to Art Nehf Field this weekend for a three-game series with Mount St. Joseph on Saturday and Sunday.
