Grand Canyon Wins Rubber Game at No. 25 Illinois

Sunday, April 22

Champaign, Ill.

11 AM CT

University of Illinois

24-11

Grand Canyon

22-17

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Grand Canyon	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	5	9	0
Illinois	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	3	11	2

April 22, 2018 | Baseball

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The No. 25 Illinois baseball team allowed three runs in the eighth inning Sunday to fall to Grand Canyon 5-3 at Illinois Field. GCU won the three-game series 2-1.

Illinois (24-11) outhit Grand Canyon 11-9 but left nine runners on base. The Illini scored two runs in the fifth inning on a two-out double by Michael Massey and a wild pitch and added one in the ninth.

Jeff Korte, Grant Van Scoy and Zac Taylor singled to start the ninth with Illinois trailing 5-2 before Ben Troike grounded into a double play and Bren Spillane grounded out to end the game. Van Scoy had three hits, Korte had two and Taylor added two.

Ty Weber turned in a quality start, throwing six innings and allowing two runs on five hits. Weber kept his season ERA at 3.00.

Quinten Sefcik (1-1) took the loss by allowing the first run in the eighth, after he threw a scoreless seventh. Zack Jones (0.0 IP, 1 R) and Ryan Thompson (0.2 IP, 1 R) finished the eighth inning.

Quin Cotton led GCU with three hits and two runs scored.

Illinois finishes its nine-game homestand Tuesday against Bradley.

Notes

• Ben Troike extended his career-long reached base streak to 40 games, the longest active streak in the Big Ten.
• Bren Spillane extended his hitting streak to five games.
• Bren Spillane went 3-for-8 with two homers in the series after missing the previous two games with an injury.
• Jack Yalowitz extended his reached base streak to eight games.
• The game was Illinois' Bark in the Park promotion.

On the board. Nice two-out RBI double from @mmass7219 after Spillane was pitched around.

Grand Canyon 2, #Illini 1 | B5 pic.twitter.com/S2hJEHoZAh
— Illini Baseball (@IlliniBaseball) April 22, 2018