University of St. Thomas Athletics
Wednesday, March 22
Manhattan, Kan.
6:00 p.m. Central
2-13
2
at
1
Kansas State
14-8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
St. Thomas
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
8
0
Kansas State
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
4
0
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Huhn, Tucker (1-0)
L: Hartis, Shay (2-1)
S: Esch, Evan (1)
Batting:
RBI: Richartz, Brigs 1 ; O'Connell, Dylan 1
SH: Kulesa, Sam 1
SF: O'Connell, Dylan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Richartz, Brigs 1 ; Mathieson, Parker 1
CS: O'Connell, Dylan 1
Batting:
RBI: Goodwin, Nick 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pena, Roberto 1
SB: Jones, Brendan 2 ; Goodwin, Nick 2 ; Rugely, Cash 1 ; Queck, Carson 1 ; Pena, Roberto 1
HBP: Rugely, Cash 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
3
R
0
H
2
RBI
1
AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Nick Wosika
Baseball takes down Wildcats, 2-1, behind solid pitching
3/22/2023 9:31:00 PM | Baseball
Manhattan, Kan. -- A trio of pitchers held Kansas State to just four hits Wednesday night as St. Thomas Baseball came away with a 2-1 win in Manhattan, Kan.
Freshman pitcher Owen Marsh (1-1) and sophomores Tucker Huhn and Evan Esch (1) combined to allow just four hits through the game and kept 12 Wildcats baserunners stranded.
Brigs Richartz led off his sixth game with a hit to set up the game's lone run of the first six innings. Max Moris followed with his third hit in as many games before a passed ball and a sac fly from Dylan O'Connell gave the Toms a 1-0 lead over the Wildcats.
Marsh, making his first career start, kept the Wildcats without a hit through 4.2 innings. He left two baserunners stranded through three innings before getting out of a bases loaded jam in the fourth.
After Marsh exited with two outs in the fifth inning, Huhn entered and held two runners on base while doing the same in the sixth to preserve the Tommie lead, 1-0. Mathieson opened the top of the seventh with a walk and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Sam Kulesa. A single from Matthew Enck and an RBI ground out by Richartz padded the St. Thomas lead to 2-0.
Esch entered to pitch in the bottom of the seventh and exited the frame after throwing just nine pitches. He left runners stranded on first and second base in the eight but allowed two walks to lead off the ninth. Esch answered back with a strikeout looking before Charlie Bartholomew fielded a grounder down the first base line for the unassisted out. Esch sealed his first career save with his fourth and final strikeout of the game.
St. Thomas took advantage of its eight hits, totaling 19 in the series, after reaching on just two walks. Moris and O'Connell finished with two hits each, both of which have a team-high five over the last three games. Richartz recorded one hit, his first RBI of the season and his team-high eighth run.
Prior to this game, the Tommies were 1-10 against Power 6 teams in the NCAA DI era, going 1-3 against Minnesota, 0-2 at Iowa, 0-2 versus Northwestern, 0-2 against Creighton and 0-1 at Kansas State.
St. Thomas and Western Illinois, originally scheduled to play March 24-26 in St. Paul, Minn., was moved to Macomb, Ill., due to field conditions at Koch Diamond. The Tommies and Leathernecks' May 12-14 series will now be played in St. Paul, Minn.
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Freshman pitcher Owen Marsh (1-1) and sophomores Tucker Huhn and Evan Esch (1) combined to allow just four hits through the game and kept 12 Wildcats baserunners stranded.
Brigs Richartz led off his sixth game with a hit to set up the game's lone run of the first six innings. Max Moris followed with his third hit in as many games before a passed ball and a sac fly from Dylan O'Connell gave the Toms a 1-0 lead over the Wildcats.
Marsh, making his first career start, kept the Wildcats without a hit through 4.2 innings. He left two baserunners stranded through three innings before getting out of a bases loaded jam in the fourth.
After Marsh exited with two outs in the fifth inning, Huhn entered and held two runners on base while doing the same in the sixth to preserve the Tommie lead, 1-0. Mathieson opened the top of the seventh with a walk and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Sam Kulesa. A single from Matthew Enck and an RBI ground out by Richartz padded the St. Thomas lead to 2-0.
Esch entered to pitch in the bottom of the seventh and exited the frame after throwing just nine pitches. He left runners stranded on first and second base in the eight but allowed two walks to lead off the ninth. Esch answered back with a strikeout looking before Charlie Bartholomew fielded a grounder down the first base line for the unassisted out. Esch sealed his first career save with his fourth and final strikeout of the game.
St. Thomas took advantage of its eight hits, totaling 19 in the series, after reaching on just two walks. Moris and O'Connell finished with two hits each, both of which have a team-high five over the last three games. Richartz recorded one hit, his first RBI of the season and his team-high eighth run.
Prior to this game, the Tommies were 1-10 against Power 6 teams in the NCAA DI era, going 1-3 against Minnesota, 0-2 at Iowa, 0-2 versus Northwestern, 0-2 against Creighton and 0-1 at Kansas State.
St. Thomas and Western Illinois, originally scheduled to play March 24-26 in St. Paul, Minn., was moved to Macomb, Ill., due to field conditions at Koch Diamond. The Tommies and Leathernecks' May 12-14 series will now be played in St. Paul, Minn.
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For more information on St. Thomas Baseball, follow along on Twitter and Instagram at @tommiebase
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