EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville baseball team extended its winning streak to seven games on Sunday by completing a four-game series sweep of the visiting Bowling Green State Falcons with 8-4 and 13-3 victories at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in Evansville.
“What a way to cap a great overall weekend for our ballclub,†said UE head coach Wes Carroll.  “I thought that we played well in all three facets of the game this weekend.  Our offense had a great approach all weekend and really grinded out at-bats, and I thought top to bottom, our lineup competed well.
“Chase Hug and Simon Scherry are really hot right now at the plate, while Eric Roberts and Danny Borgstrom continue to have good days at the yard.  On the mound, I thought that our starters had great starts as well today.  The next four games on the road will be a challenge, but we are a confident team right now.â€
In the opener, UE jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a run-scoring wild pitch, before scoring two runs in the third inning on a two-run opposite-field home run by Roberts, his second of the year.
Bowling Green would answer back with two unearned runs in the fourth inning to cut the UE lead to 3-2, but Evansville would respond with an RBI single by Scherry in their half of the inning.  Then, UE exploded for four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to put the game away.  Junior second baseman Kip Fougerousse started the four-run rally with a sacrifice fly, before Hug delivered a two-run triple and scored on another sacrifice fly by Scherry to move the lead to 8-2.
Junior starter Donovan Schultz (1-1) earned the victory for UE on the mound by scattering two unearned runs on one hit in 5.0 innings of work, while striking out five.  Hug went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI, while Scherry and Roberts drove in two runs each.
In the nightcap, Evansville used back-to-back four-run frames in the first two innings to grab control of the contest.  The Purple Aces sent 10 men to the plate in the first inning, with Hug and Borgstrom coming through with RBI base hits to build a 4-0 lead.  Then, Evansville doubled the lead in the second inning with four more runs, highlighted by a two-run single by Roberts and another RBI single by Borgstrom.
Evansville would add single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings, as Hug would add an opposite-field solo home run to left field in the fifth inning to help build an 11-1 lead.  The two teams would then trade two-run innings in the sixth inning to provide the final score of 13-3, with Hug plating an RBI double and senior third baseman Brent Widder producing an RBI single in the sixth.
Hug and Scherry both had four-hit games for UE, with Hug finishing a triple shy of the cycle.  Borgstrom also went 3-for-3 with two runs driven in, while Widder went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
With the victories, Evansville improves its overall record to 7-5.  Bowling Green, meanwhile, drops to 2-8 with the two losses.  Evansville will now hit the road for four games this week, beginning on Wednesday, when the Purple Aces travel to Nashville, Tennessee to take on #7 Vanderbilt in a mid-week contest.  First-pitch is set for 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday’s game can be seen live on the SEC Network-Plus streaming service.
