CARBONDALE, Ill. - Battling back time and time again, the University of Evansville baseball team came up just short in its MVC Championship opener in a 10-9 loss in 12 innings to Illinois State on Tuesday evening at Itchy Jones Stadium in Carbondale, Ill.
"It was just a heartbreaking loss. Our seniors left it all out on the field," said Aces head baseball coach Wes Carroll. "The efforts we got from Troy Beilsmith, with some unbelievable at-bats, Ben Komonosky, caught just such a great game, Craig Shepherd, who's fought through injury over the past month and he couldn't get in there tonight, and then for Nathan Croner to go out there and make some competitive pitches deep, deep into that game.