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Winner Evansville UE 14-9, 3-0 MVC
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Bradley BRAD 12-10, 0-3 MVC
Winner
Evansville UE
14-9, 3-0 MVC
6
Final
4
Bradley BRAD
12-10, 0-3 MVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Evansville UE 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 9 0
Bradley BRAD 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 12 2

W: Parks, Michael (1-1) L: Beer, Allan (2-1)

Evansville Rallies in 9th to Complete Series Sweep

The Purple Aces scored four runs in the ninth inning for a 6-4 victory Sunday at Dozer Park

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Game Recap: Baseball | | Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications
PEORIA, IL – Held to two runs on five hits through the first eight innings, Evansville (14-9, 3-0 MVC) rallied for four runs on four hits off Bradley closer Allan Beer to complete a weekend Missouri Valley Conference baseball sweep with a 6-4 victory Sunday afternoon at Dozer Park.
 
Beer entered the game 2-0 with five saves, a 0.82 earned run average and a .179 opponent batting average, but the Aces were not rattled.  Evansville needed just three pitches to put runners on the corners with no outs, then got a fielder's choice ground ball to pull within 4-3.  After a walk put runners at first and second, Nate Reeder and Tanner Craig followed with RBI singles to put Evansville out in front. 
 
Craig was 3-for-5 with three RBI's Sunday and finished the 3-game series 7-for-14 with six RBI's.  He also had the game-winning RBI in Friday's 1-0 Evansville win and scored what proved to be the deciding run in Saturday's 4-2 Aces victory.
 
Trailing 2-0 entering the bottom of the third, Bradley pulled even on Jean-Francois Garon's 2-run home run off the netting that protects Jefferson Street well beyond the left field wall.  The Braves took their first lead of the series, 4-2, in the eighth inning when Nick McMurray came through with a RBI single and Luke Shadid followed with a sacrifice fly.
 
The Braves will continue their 9-game home stand with a pair of midweek games at Dozer Park, both 6 p.m. starts Tuesday against Western Illinois and Wednesday versus SIU Edwardsville.
 
Notes:  Andy Shadid became the first Bradley Baseball player to reach 30 career sacrifice bunts when he executed a sacrifice in the seventh inning … Freshman 1B Connor O'Brien was 3-for-4 and sophomore C Keaton Rice was 3-for-3 with a walk in his four plate appearances … Bradley outhit Evansville in each of the last two games by a 22-15 count … Luke Shadid was 1-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI, pushing his team-leading totals in both categories to 17 and 21, respectively.


 
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Players Mentioned

Allan Beer

#23 Allan Beer

IF/RHP
6' 2"
Redshirt Senior
R/R
Jean-Francois Garon

#37 Jean-Francois Garon

OF
6' 3"
Senior
R/R
Nick McMurray

#4 Nick McMurray

IF
6' 1"
Senior
L/R
Keaton Rice

#15 Keaton Rice

C
6' 2"
Sophomore
L/R
Andy Shadid

#7 Andy Shadid

OF
5' 11"
Senior
R/R
Luke Shadid

#10 Luke Shadid

IF
5' 10"
Junior
R/R
Connor O

#41 Connor O'Brien

C/IF
6' 0"
Freshman
R/R

Players Mentioned

Allan Beer

#23 Allan Beer

6' 2"
Redshirt Senior
R/R
IF/RHP
Jean-Francois Garon

#37 Jean-Francois Garon

6' 3"
Senior
R/R
OF
Nick McMurray

#4 Nick McMurray

6' 1"
Senior
L/R
IF
Keaton Rice

#15 Keaton Rice

6' 2"
Sophomore
L/R
C
Andy Shadid

#7 Andy Shadid

5' 11"
Senior
R/R
OF
Luke Shadid

#10 Luke Shadid

5' 10"
Junior
R/R
IF
Connor O

#41 Connor O'Brien

6' 0"
Freshman
R/R
C/IF