RUSSELLVILLE — The Arkansas Tech baseball team beat former conference rival Delta State 9-5 on Tuesday night out at Baswell Field. The win came in the first of what will be a two-game mid-week series between Tech and Delta State.
In Tuesday's game, the Statesmen jumped out to a 3-0 lead through three and a half innings of play with single runs in the first, third and fourth innings. Two of those three early runs for Delta State were unearned.
The Wonder Boys would get things going offensively in the bottom of the fourth as they scored three runs on four hits to tie the game at three-all. In that inning, Keaton Ranallo led off with a single to right-centerfield and was quickly moved to third on a wall-banging double by Logan Schwenke. With two runners in scoring position, Christian Olea came through with a clutch single up the middle to score both Ranallo and Schwenke.
During the next at-bat, Olea made his way to third on a passed ball and a wild pitch. With Olea on third, Brendyn Bard traded places as he laced triple down the left field line.
An inning later, the Wonder Boys took the lead with a pair of runs. The first run of that inning was Nick Jones scoring on a RBI double off the bat of Schwenke. In the next at-bat, Olea collected his third RBI with a groundout to shortstop.
