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Washburn will wrap up its season Tuesday at Rockhurst. The game was originally scheduled for Wednesday but was moved to avoid possible rain.
Swan set a school record April 21 with 3 doubles at UCO. Numerous players had hit 2 doubles in a game previously. Swan only had 1 extra-base hit, a double, this year before Sunday.
Taylor Gentry earned the victory in three of Washburn's last five wins. He's 3-2 this year with a 4.20 ERA in 10 total appearances. He has a 37/17 strikeout/walk ratio.
Riley Price is hitting .372 this year. He leads the team in batting average, hits (55) and RBI (30).
Washburn leads the MIAA and was fourth in the nation with 20 triples.
Taylor Herrington leads the league with eight triples and he was first in the nation in triples per game.
Head coach Steve Anson coached his 1,600th career game on February 19 at Fort Hays State. He's gone 840-796-3 in 35 seasons with 34 at Washburn and one at Wayne State (Neb.).
Rockhurst leads the series against Washburn 34-30 after getting a win in Topeka earlier this year. The two have played every year since 1999.
Season finale moved up a day as Ichabods close out year at Rockhurst
The Ichabods will wrap up the 2013 season Tuesday with a 5 p.m. game at Rockhurst. Possible rain on Wednesday moved the game up a day and it will now be played an hour earlier.
This will be just the third non-conference game of the year for the Ichabods. Washburn and the Hawks played just one of the three originally scheduled games this year in a 17-8 Rockhurst win on March 20. The other two were canceled due to snow.
The Ichabods salvaged a win Sunday in the series finale against Lindenwood and are 10-33 overall. The win snapped a seven-game losing streak. Rockhurst currently has a seven-game losing streak and is 16-22 overall. The Hawks will wrap up their series with Drury with a doubleheader Monday before hosting Washburn. Drury took the first two games of the series on Sunday.
Washburn and Rockhurst have played 64 times with the Hawks holding a 34-30 advantage in the all-time series.
Washburn near the top in the nation in triples
The Ichabods lead the MIAA with 20 triples and their total was fourth in the country in the last NCAA statistic report.
Taylor Herrington leads the league and the nation with 0.23 triples a game and the eight he had at the last report was second in the nation.
Washburn's 20 triples this year is tied for the fifth highest total in school history. The Ichabods hit 34 in 2000 to set the record.
Price about to wrap up team batting title
Junior
Riley Price is batting .372 and he will look to wrap up the team batting title. He also leads the team with 55 hits and 30 RBI and he has a home run.
Gentry leads pitching staff
Junior pitcher
Taylor Gentry has earned three of Washburn's last five wins. He went all six innings April 11 against Fort Hays State and gave up three runs off eight hits with six strikeouts. Overall, he has a 4.20 ERA with 35 strikeouts and 12 walks. His ERA and win total of three leads the team.
He also has wins in starts against Nebraska-Kearney and Northwest Missouri as he went seven innings in each game and allowed just one earned run.
Gentry was named the MIAA pitcher of the week earlier this year after pitching over five innings of scoreless relief March 23 as Washburn came back from a 6-2 deficit to beat the third-ranked Mules.
Head Coach Steve Anson in his 34th season at Washburn
Washburn head coach Steve Anson reached a career milestone with his 800th win as the Ichabods coach last year and he's in his 34th season at Washburn with an 817-774-3 (.513) record.
Anson, the winningest coach in the MIAA, is 840-796-3 (.513) in 35 seasons overall as a head coach after coaching the 1979 season at Wayne State (Neb.) and then starting at Washburn in 1980.
He was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, and is a 1976 graduate of Kansas State where he still holds the Wildcats' career record with 19 triples.
Last Time Out: Crimmins drives in winning runs as Ichabods top Lindenwood
TOPEKA, Kan. --
Connor Crimmins doubled in the winning run Sunday afternoon to give the Ichabods a 10-9 win over Lindenwood on Senior Day at Falley Field.
Washburn improved to 10-33 and wrapped up the MIAA portion of the schedule at 9-32.
Washburn seniors
Richard Swan,
Tony Spicuglia,
Brad Alberts and
Trent Speaker were honored before the game as they played their final contest at Falley Field.
The Ichabods loaded the bases with no outs in the eighth but the Lions got two strikeouts to nearly end the threat and keep their 9-7 lead.
Parker Gibson then hit an infield single up the middle to score a run and keep the bases loaded for Crimmins. He drove the second pitch he saw to left-center field to score
Richard Swan and
David Gauntt and give Washburn a 10-9 lead.
Greg Mason, who entered the game in the seventh, closed it out to get his second win (2-2). He allowed a hit and a walk but no runs in the effort. He retired Lindenwood in order in the ninth.
The Ichabods took the lead early but the Lions tied it in the fourth and took the lead in the seventh.
Parker Gibson and Crimmins led off the first with walks for Washburn. Gibson stole second and then third in the process and scored on a single from
Riley Price. Price and Crimmins then scored on a double from senior
Brad Alberts.
Lindenwood tied the game in the top of the fourth off three hits and two Washburn errors. The Ichabods got two of those runs back in the bottom of the inning. Swan, who missed Senior Day ceremony with a pregame injury, hit a pinch hit double and scored on two wild pitches.
John Stoothoff, who walked before the first wild pitch, later scored on a groundout from
Taylor Herrington.
Swan walked twice and scored three runs and Alberts ended with two RBI. Gibson ended up stealing three bases.
Washburn also scored two runs in the sixth on an error and a balk.
Mark Biesma started for Washburn and made it six innings. He allowed four runs, two of the earned, and gave up seven hits with a strikeout and four walks.
