The Wabash baseball team scratched out four hits but could not come up with a run in an 11-0 loss at Division I Purdue University Thursday afternoon.
Senior Jake Thomas started well for Wabash, picking up one of his two hits in the first inning for the Little Giants. The Boilermakers scored two runs in the first and three in the second before starter Andy Weeks settled in to keep Purdue scoreless in the third, fourth, and fifth.
Head baseball coach Cory Stevens talks about playing a Division I program like Purdue.
Wabash had its best chance to score in the third when PJ Tyson drilled a two-out double down the left field line, then moved to third on a wild pitch. He was stranded at third when the Big Ten squad recorded the final out of the inning on a ground ball toward second.
Tyler Burke added a double in the eighth for the fourth hit of the game for the Little Giants.
Weeks worked 5-1/3 innings, allowing five earned runs on 15 hits with five walks and four strikeouts. Andrew Swart pitched 1-2/3 innings of two-run, three-hit baseball with a strikeout. Keegan Leckrone finished the eighth inning by facing the minimum three batters with one strikeout.
Wabash (6-12) returns to Mud Hollow Field this weekend for two doubleheaders. The Little Giants play Robert Morris-Springfield Saturday at 1 p.m. Sunday Wabash will play St. Xavier from the Chicagoland area at 1 p.m..