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Hot Start Fizzles In 11-3 Loss to Xavier
BLOOMINGTON,
Ind. - All nine Hoosier batters made their way to the plate in the
first inning as Indiana (10-15) jumped out to a 3-0 lead over
Xavier (9-15). It was all Musketeers from there though, scoring the
next 11 runs and leaving Bloomington with an 11-3 victory.
Sembower
Field has been very kind to Michael Basil so far in 2012. In the first
two home games, Indiana’s shortstop is 5-for-8 with a homerun and three
runs scored. On Tuesday, Basil had a 3-for-5 performance at the dish.
Justin Cureton and Collin McEnery weren’t far behind, each stroking a
pair of hits.
Cureton legged out an infield single to
lead off the bottom of the first. The speedy center field then swiped
his 11th bag of the season to move into scoring position. McEnery
stepped into the box next and brought Cureton around the rest of the
way, nearly decapitating the Xavier first baseman with a rocket down
the right field line. Freshman Sam Travis wasted little time extending
his hitting streak to 12 games, scoring McEnery by slapping an opposite
field single to make it 2-0.
A Basil single and walk for
Chad Clark followed, jamming the bases full of Hoosiers with two outs.
Will Nolden recorded the easiest RBI there is, drawing a walk to push
across Indiana’s third run of the opening inning. Xavier’s Adam Hall
then locked in to strike out the next batter and end the threat.
Things,
most notably the IU defense, started to get ugly in the third inning.
The Musketeers evened the score in that frame before gradually
increasing their lead as the game went on. Xavier would go on to score
another in the fourth, fifth, and three runs in the sixth and eighth
innings; multiple aided by five IU defensive errors.
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