OMAHA, Neb. - Southern Illinois pitcher Cameron Maldonado (5-7) threw his first complete game of the season and the Salukis (23-33) ended Bradley's season with a 5-1 win versus the Braves (22-32) in Game 6 at the 2011 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship Wednesday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park.

Bradley starting pitcher John Nasshan (3-8) allowed only four hits on 8.0 innings of shutout ball in his May 8 start versus Southern Illinois, but the Salukis used back-to-back, 1-out doubles in the top of the first inning to take a quick 1-0 lead.  Austin Montgomery followed Wes Neece's double with a two-bagger of his own to open the scoring.

The Salukis tacked on four unearned runs in the third inning after the Braves committed a pair of infield errors.  Third baseman Rob Elliott twice appeared to start inning-ending double plays, but the Braves came away from the two plays with only one out.  After second baseman David Compitello dropped Elliott's throw on a Montgomery ground ball, Elliott fielded a Brock Harding grounder and stepped on third base for the inning's second out, but threw wildly to first, allowing SIU's second run to score.  After Jordan Sivertsen drew a 2-out walk to load the bases, Nick Johnson hit a 3-run double off the glove of diving leftfielder Mike Tauchman for a 5-0 lead.

The Braves got on the board in the eighth inning when Elliott doubled, took third on an Andres Rodriguez single and scored on a sacrifice fly by Brad Kimball, but the was all the scoring Bradley could muster against Maldonado.  The Saluki pitcher gave up eight hits and did not walk a batter, while striking out five.