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TOPEKA, Kan. – Brett Ash threw his fifth straight complete game win and moved to second in career strikeouts at Washburn and Taylor Gentry pitched his first career complete game shutout as the Ichabods swept Lincoln Friday afternoon at Falley Field.
 
Washburn took the opener 6-1 and won the second game 3-0 and improved to 20-19 overall and 19-15 in the MIAA. The Blue Tigers fell to 1-34 and 0-30 in the MIAA. The series will conclude Saturday with a 12 p.m. doubleheader and Washburn's 10 seniors will be honored between games.
 
Ash struck out eight Blue Tigers to pass Mike Lineback (1982-85) and move to second in school history, now with 189. He gave up a run in the first inning off two hits but allowed just one more hit and hit a batter the final six innings. He moved to 5-1 on the year.
 
Washburn broke a 1-1 tie with a five-run fifth inning that featured three doubles. Payton Soicher hit one to left center and then was part of Parker Gibson's three-run double. Corey Gragg then drove in Gibson with a double to left.
 
Payton Soicher went 3 for 3 with an RBI single in the second inning to tie the game. Four other Ichabods recorded a hit each as Washburn had seven.
 
The second game was a pitcher's dual between Gentry and Lincoln's Nathan Lueckenhoff. Kyle Carnahan was hit by a pitch with two outs in the sixth and he scored on Matt Jackson's double. Washburn added two more in the seventh on an RBI single from Corey Gragg and a wild pitch that scored Gragg.
 
Gentry allowed six hits through the nine innings. He struck out seven and walked two.