TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Senior Alex Chandler (Needles, Calif./Needles) went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI in addition to breaking the Bradley career assist record, while fellow senior Madeline Lynch-Crumrine (Sedro-Woolley, Wash./Sedro-Woolley) earned her 15th victory of the year as the duo helped power Bradley to a 6-3 win at Indiana State Saturday.

Bradley (21-25 overall, 12-8 MVC) tied the school record for conference victories in a season with its 12th league win of the year.  Chandler, who moved into a tie for seventh in career RBI at Bradley with her 66th career RBI, scored a run and drove in a pair to help highlight a BU offensive attack which tallied 12 hits.

Chandler got the Braves on the scoreboard first with a RBI double in the top of the second to plate Lynch-Crumrine with the first run of the contest.  Sophomore Kendall Duffy (Naperville, Ill./Benet Academy) drove in Shannon King (San Jose, Calif./Archbishop Mitty) from third with a groundout and Chandler later scored on a Brittany Burgess (Utica, Ill./St. Bede) single to give Bradley a 3-0 lead.

The Braves loaded the bases in the top of the third with a walk and back-to-back singles for King, who drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to right.  Chandler drove in her second run of the day with a single to left to push the Bradley advantage to 5-0.  The Braves had the bases loaded with only one out later in the frame, but couldn't push another run across.

Indiana State (24-22 overall, 6-13 MVC) answered with two runs in the bottom of the third after a walk and single to open the inning.  The Sycamores loaded the bases with another single and scored a run on a fielder's choice.  Indiana State added another run on a BU error on the play to pull within 5-2.

Another Bradley error in the bottom of the fifth helped lead to another Sycamore run as Indiana State cut the Braves' lead to 5-3.  Morgan Allee led off the inning with a single and moved all the way to third on Bradley's second error of the game.  Erika Crissman drove in Allee from third with a single up the middle.

Senior Brianne Joseph (Post Falls, Idaho/Post Falls) led off the Bradley half of the sixth with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt.  She scored on an Alyson Clemente (Murrieta, Calif./Murrieta Valley) single to right to give the Braves an insurance run (6-3) as Joseph moved into a tie for 10th in career runs scored (79) at BU.

The Sycamores left a runner on base in the sixth and threatened again in the seventh, before Lynch-Crumrine and the Braves were able to close out the road win.  Indiana State had runners on first and second with one out and the Sycamores loaded the bases with a two-out hit batter, but Lynch-Crumrine got Shelby Wilson to fly out to center to end the game.

Lynch-Crumrine struck out five and walked just one in the complete game victory to improve to 15-12 on the year.  She is the first Bradley pitcher with 15 or more wins in a season since Ashley Birdsong won 20 games as a senior in 2009.  Chandler broke Amy Pera's (1992-95) school career assist record (423) on a groundball to shortstop to end the sixth. 

Bradley will play at I-74 rival Illinois State Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the final game of the series against the Redbirds.