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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Owen Jansen finished a double shy of the cycle as part of a three-hit, four-RBI day, leading Purdue baseball to a 21-0 win vs. the Fieldhouse Pirates in fall exhibition action Friday at Alexander Field.
Jansen was among the three Boilermakers to triple to right center in a five-run third inning. He later connected for a two-run homer to right center.
The Fieldhouse Pirates are a Canadian travel team based in Burlington, Ontario. Their roster features primarily 16- to 18-year-olds. Now a sophomore at Purdue, Jansen first came to Alexander Field in the fall of 2016 with a similar travel ball program in his native Ontario.
Ben Nisle and Zac Fascia also doubled to right center in the third inning. The Boilermakers opened the inning with five consecutive hits.
Purdue executed some situational baseball successfully in the sixth inning, getting a bases-loaded sac fly from Seth Gergely and a squeeze bunt from Milo Beam.
James Kulak, Kyle Wade, Hayden Wynja and Bo Hofstra each worked two scoreless innings on the mound. Wynja struck out the side in order in the fifth inning and Hofstra did likewise in the top of the eighth. Hofstra fanned five of the six batters he faced. Kulak recorded all five of his outs via Ks.
Freshmen Blake Schmitt delivered a two-run single and Evan Albrecht recorded an RBI double in the final frame of the day.
The Boilermakers final fall exhibition game is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. vs. Heartland College, which won 46 games and the Mid-West Athletic Conference title in the spring. Purdue's Old Gold & Black intrasquad series begins next Saturday.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Owen Jansen finished a double shy of the cycle as part of a three-hit, four-RBI day, leading Purdue baseball to a 21-0 win vs. the Fieldhouse Pirates in fall exhibition action Friday at Alexander Field.
Jansen was among the three Boilermakers to triple to right center in a five-run third inning. He later connected for a two-run homer to right center.
The Fieldhouse Pirates are a Canadian travel team based in Burlington, Ontario. Their roster features primarily 16- to 18-year-olds. Now a sophomore at Purdue, Jansen first came to Alexander Field in the fall of 2016 with a similar travel ball program in his native Ontario.
Ben Nisle and Zac Fascia also doubled to right center in the third inning. The Boilermakers opened the inning with five consecutive hits.
Purdue executed some situational baseball successfully in the sixth inning, getting a bases-loaded sac fly from Seth Gergely and a squeeze bunt from Milo Beam.
James Kulak, Kyle Wade, Hayden Wynja and Bo Hofstra each worked two scoreless innings on the mound. Wynja struck out the side in order in the fifth inning and Hofstra did likewise in the top of the eighth. Hofstra fanned five of the six batters he faced. Kulak recorded all five of his outs via Ks.
Freshmen Blake Schmitt delivered a two-run single and Evan Albrecht recorded an RBI double in the final frame of the day.
The Boilermakers final fall exhibition game is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. vs. Heartland College, which won 46 games and the Mid-West Athletic Conference title in the spring. Purdue's Old Gold & Black intrasquad series begins next Saturday.