SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State lost 7-2 to Indiana State in the first game of Friday's Missouri Valley Conference doubleheader, and the second game was suspended after seven innings due to time constraints with a Springfield Cardinals game scheduled Friday evening at Hammons Field.

Game two, which was originally slated for seven innings, will officially be in extras when it resumes at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, tied 3-3 after the Bears evened the score in the bottom of the seventh. The third game of the series will begin 40 minutes after its conclusion.

Both Missouri State and the Springfield Cardinals have home series this weekend, necessitating the agreement on end times for MSU games, which precede the Cardinal games each day.

Game One Recap – Indiana State 7, Missouri State 2
Missouri State (15-17, 5-8 MVC) got solo home runs from Mason Hull and Jaden Rolffs in the second inning but nothing more in the 7-2 setback.

Trailing 1-0, Hull evened the score with a leadoff homer in the second, his first of the year, and Rolffs bombed his team-high 10th of the season two batters later, just the fourth and fifth long balls of the year off Geremy Guerrero (8-1) in 70 innings.

The Sycamores (22-11, 9-4) retook the lead at 3-2 with two walks that scored on a Miguel Rivera double in the third, made it 4-2 with a walk and two singles in the sixth, and used four walks, a hit batter and a single for their final three tallies in the ninth.

Drake Baldwin extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a leadoff double in the sixth, and Missouri State loaded the bases in the ninth with a late rally. Cam Cratic's streak of 17 consecutive games reaching safely came to an end.

Logan Wiley (4-3) tied his season high with six strikeouts in 7.1 innings, the longest outing for an MSU hurler this season.


Game Two Recap – Suspended after 7 innings, tied 3-3
The Sycamores got all three of their runs in the fourth inning after the first three batters walked and scored on a pair of singles.

Hull swatted his second homer of the afternoon on the fifth to make it 3-2, and Ben Whetstone led off the seventh with a double and scored the tying run on a Rolffs sacrifice fly.

Originally scheduled for seven innings, the game will resume with the MVC extra-inning policy in place, with Indiana State starting the top of the eighth with a runner on second base at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.