May 13, 2006
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
Game Three Box Score
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Purdue baseball team suffered through three games with minimal offensive success as the Boilermakers went 1-2 in the opening three games in this weekend's series vs. the Iowa Hawkeyes at Duane Banks Field.
Purdue lost 4-2 to the Hawkeyes in the series opener, a game that was started on Friday evening and suspended in the fifth inning and completed this afternoon.
In the first game of the originally scheduled Saturday doubleheader, the Boilermakers received a complete-game shutout from Trae Dauby in a 1-0 win.
The Hawkeyes reversed the tide in the nightcap, posting a 2-0 win over Purdue despite just two Iowa hits.
In the three games, the Boilermakers received outstanding efforts on the mound in all three games. However, Purdue mustered only 16 hits in the three games, batting .205 as a team.
Dan Sattler started the series opener, pitching four innings and allowing two earned runs (four runs total) while striking out five. Brent Coudron got the call on Saturday in the resumption of the first game and pitched four shutout innings, fanning three and yielding just one hit.
In the first seven-inning game on Saturday, Dauby tossed his first career complete game, posting the shutout and striking out a career-high eight batters.
The Boilermakers scored their lone run of the game, the game-winning run, in the fifth inning. Mitch Hilligoss tripled and scored two batters later on a single by Ryne White.
The nightcap saw Jay Buente return to the form that helped him post early-season wins over Louisiana-Lafayette, Missouri and Saint Louis. Buente pitched a complete game, allowing only two hits and striking out five. However, the Hawkeyes pushed across two runs (one unearned) and the Boilermaker bats fell silent.
In 23 innings of baseball, Purdue stranded 25 runners on base, including 14 in scoring position. Seven of the Boilermakers' runners-left-on were stranded on third base, and Purdue left the bases loaded three times in the first 10 innings played.
The Boilermakers will try for their fourth series split in seven Big Ten weekends when they take on Iowa in the series finale at 2 p.m. ET at Duane Banks Field on Sunday.