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Baseball
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South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, February 19
Sugar Land, Texas
1 p.m.
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Photo by: Erik Williams
JACKS FALL TWICE TO BOILERMAKERS
2/19/2022 9:09:00 PM | Baseball
SUGAR LAND, Texas — Purdue handed South Dakota State a pair of lopsided losses Saturday at Constellation Field, sweeping a doubleheader by scores of 11-1 and 14-3.
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With the two wins, the Boilermakers improved to 3-0 on the young season. SDSU dropped to 0-3.
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Game 1: Purdue 11, South Dakota State 1
The Jackrabbits scored the first run of the game, but Purdue responded with 11 unanswered runs that were highlighted by a pair of two-run home runs.
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Reece Anderson led off the top of the third inning with the first of his two singles in the game, took second on a walk to Jordan Sagedahl and scored on Nic Nelson's base hit through the left side.
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Purdue quickly responded with a two-run home half of the third against Jackrabbit starter Cody Carlson, starting a string of four consecutive innings in which the Boilermakers scored. Paul Toetz drove in the first run of the frame with a single and the go-ahead run came across on a balk.
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Toetz, who was 3-for-4, hit his second home run of the series in the fourth inning, a two-run shot to left. That followed a two-run double by Mike Bolton Jr. two batters earlier.
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The next three Purdue runs — one in the fifth inning and two in the sixth — were all unearned as the Jackrabbits were charged with six errors in the game. Ty Gill capped the scoring for the Boilermakers with a two-run, pinch-hit home run in the eighth.
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Purdue pitchers Jackson Smeltz and Ricky Castro combined to strike out 12 Jackrabbit hitters in the game.
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Game 2: Purdue 14, South Dakota State 3
The Boilermakers picked up where they left off, building an early 4-0 lead before putting the game out of reach by striking for eight runs in the bottom of the seventh.
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Bolton led off the game for Purdue with a triple off SDSU starter Owen Bishop and scored the first run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Toetz. The Boilermakers tacked on three runs in the third inning as Curtis Washington doubled in two runs and Thompson delivered a sacrifice fly.
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SDSU got on the board in the sixth inning as Henry George doubled with two outs and scored on Dawson Parry's double to the left-center gap two batters later.
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Once again, Purdue answered the Jackrabbit run with two of their own as Troy Viola plated a run with a double to right-center and later scored on Bolton's second hit of the game.
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Thompson delivered the big blow in the eight-run seventh with a three-run blast to left field. In all, Purdue sent 11 men to the plate against the Jackrabbit bullpen.
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Derek Hackman knocked in the final two runs of the game for the Jackrabbits with a double in the eighth inning.
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Purdue finished with an 11-5 advantage in hits as Bolton, Thompson and Viola all collected two. No player had more than one hit for SDSU, but four of the Jackrabbits's five hits were doubles.
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UP NEXT
The finale of the four-game series is slated for 1 p.m. Sunday.
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With the two wins, the Boilermakers improved to 3-0 on the young season. SDSU dropped to 0-3.
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Game 1: Purdue 11, South Dakota State 1
The Jackrabbits scored the first run of the game, but Purdue responded with 11 unanswered runs that were highlighted by a pair of two-run home runs.
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Reece Anderson led off the top of the third inning with the first of his two singles in the game, took second on a walk to Jordan Sagedahl and scored on Nic Nelson's base hit through the left side.
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Purdue quickly responded with a two-run home half of the third against Jackrabbit starter Cody Carlson, starting a string of four consecutive innings in which the Boilermakers scored. Paul Toetz drove in the first run of the frame with a single and the go-ahead run came across on a balk.
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Toetz, who was 3-for-4, hit his second home run of the series in the fourth inning, a two-run shot to left. That followed a two-run double by Mike Bolton Jr. two batters earlier.
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The next three Purdue runs — one in the fifth inning and two in the sixth — were all unearned as the Jackrabbits were charged with six errors in the game. Ty Gill capped the scoring for the Boilermakers with a two-run, pinch-hit home run in the eighth.
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Purdue pitchers Jackson Smeltz and Ricky Castro combined to strike out 12 Jackrabbit hitters in the game.
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Game 2: Purdue 14, South Dakota State 3
The Boilermakers picked up where they left off, building an early 4-0 lead before putting the game out of reach by striking for eight runs in the bottom of the seventh.
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Bolton led off the game for Purdue with a triple off SDSU starter Owen Bishop and scored the first run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Toetz. The Boilermakers tacked on three runs in the third inning as Curtis Washington doubled in two runs and Thompson delivered a sacrifice fly.
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SDSU got on the board in the sixth inning as Henry George doubled with two outs and scored on Dawson Parry's double to the left-center gap two batters later.
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Once again, Purdue answered the Jackrabbit run with two of their own as Troy Viola plated a run with a double to right-center and later scored on Bolton's second hit of the game.
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Thompson delivered the big blow in the eight-run seventh with a three-run blast to left field. In all, Purdue sent 11 men to the plate against the Jackrabbit bullpen.
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Derek Hackman knocked in the final two runs of the game for the Jackrabbits with a double in the eighth inning.
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Purdue finished with an 11-5 advantage in hits as Bolton, Thompson and Viola all collected two. No player had more than one hit for SDSU, but four of the Jackrabbits's five hits were doubles.
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UP NEXT
The finale of the four-game series is slated for 1 p.m. Sunday.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: SMELTZ (1-0)
L: Carlson, Cody (0-1)
S: CASTRO, Ricky (1)
Batting:
RBI: Nelson, Nic 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Anderson, Reece 1
SB: George, Henry 1 ; Anderson, Reece 1
Batting:
2B: BOLTON Jr., Mike 1
HR: TOETZ, Paul 1 ; GILL, Ty 1
RBI: BOLTON Jr., Mike 2 ; TOETZ, Paul 3 ; GILL, Ty 2
SH: WASHINGTON, Curtis 1 ; ALBRECHT, Evan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: BOLTON Jr., Mike 2 ; WASHINGTON, Curtis 2 ; TOETZ, Paul 2 ; FIRESTONE, Jack 1 ; GILL, Ty 1 ; FRANCO, Sam 1 ; RAMIREZ, Steve 1 ; ALBRECHT, Evan 1
SB: FIRESTONE, Jack 1
HBP: BOLTON Jr., Mike 1 ; WASHINGTON, Curtis 1 ; THOMPSON, Cam 1 ; JARVIS, Jake 1
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