HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. – Logan Sutter connected for four extra-base hits as part of a team record six-hit game and Easton Storey and Gavin Beuter teamed up for 17 strikeouts in a combined three-hit shutout in the nightcap as Purdue Baseball swept a Saturday doubleheader vs. Niagara to improve to 7-0 on the season.
The Boilermakers scored 13 unanswered runs in the middle innings of game 1, overcoming a brief 3-1 deficit in a 16-4 victory. The 9-0 win in the nightcap was Purdue's first shutout of the season. The Boilers clinched a series victory in a four-game set for the second weekend in a row and improved to 18-4 all-time at Ting Stadium (since 2022).
At 7-0, Purdue has kept pace with the 2022 team that started 15-0 for the best season-opening win streak in program history. The seven-game win streak is the Boilers' longest since the 15-0 start three years ago.
SATURDAY LEADERS
• Logan Sutter: 6-for-8, 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 2 BB, 5 R, 14 Total Bases
• Brandon Anderson : 4-for-8, 2B, Grand Slam, 5 RBI, BB, 2 HBP, 4 R
• Albert Choi: 5-for-8, RBI, 2 BB, 2 R, SB
• Eli Anderson: 2-for-4, 3 RBI, BB, HBP, 2 Sac Fly, 3 R, 3 SB
• CJ Richmond: 2-for-5, 3B, 3 RBI, 2 BB, R
• Easton Storey: Win, 5+ IP, H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 K
• Gavin Beuter: Save, 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, BB, 7 K
• Maclane Finley: 3 IP, 2 H, R, 2 BB, 5 K
Sutter tied team records for runs scored (5) and total bases (14) while becoming the first Boilermaker ever with six hits in a game. It had been nearly five years since Purdue's last five hit game – Evan Albrecht at Western Kentucky on March 8, 2020, in what proved to the final game of that abbreviated season. A Boilermaker had not scored five times in a game since David Blount in a February 2011 win at Morehead State. Nate Sickler also had 14 total bases when he hit for the cycle in an April 2001 win at Butler.
Sutter doubled (1st inning), homered (3rd), singled (4th), singled (5th), doubled (6th) and homered (7th) in his six at-bats. The second double was an opposite-field gapper and had the potential to become a triple, but Sutter pulled up at second base as the ball arrived at the cutoff man.
Sutter's home runs included a towering 392-foot blast over the left field foul pole and 360-foot no doubter off the videoboard in left field. It was his first multi-homer game as a Boilermaker.
SATURDAY NOTABLES
• Purdue's 17 strikeouts in the nightcap matched the third most in program history and represented the most since setting the team record (19) vs. UIC in March 2022. Easton Storey fanned six of the first eight batters he faced and 10 of the 17 total over five innings of one-hit ball. Gavin Beuter struck out NU's 4-5-6 hitters in order in the ninth to close out the win, completing a 12-out save.
• Brandon Anderson connected for the Boilers' first grand slam of the season, going deep with the bases loaded in the eight-run fifth inning in game 1. It was Purdue's second slam at Ting Stadium after Jake Parr hit one in March 2023. Anderson matched Sutter with five RBI, marking the first time since April 2013 Purdue had two players with five-plus RBI in the same game.
• Sutter reached base safely in 10 consecutive plates appearances from the sixth inning of Friday's win through the third inning of Saturday's nightcap. He posted the first 10-total base game by a Boilermaker since Paul Toetz in February 2023.
• Twenty hits powered the 16-run outburst Saturday. Purdue also had 20 hits in a victory vs. Michigan State last season but had not reached that benchmark away from Alexander Field since a March 2017 win at Ball State. Free passes have otherwise fueled the lineup in this series – drawing 41 total (29 walks, 12 HBP) over the three games.
• Sergio DeCello drew four walks in the nightcap of Saturday's doubleheader.
• Leadoff man Albert Choi reached base safely five times over the first five innings of game 1 Saturday, with his four-hit effort featuring two singles in the long fifth inning. It marked the second time Choi reached base five times in a game at Ting Stadium after posting a five-hit game against Purdue while he was playing for NJIT in February 2023. He reached base safely in nine of his first 10 plate appearances in this year's series vs. Niagara.
The Boilermakers go for the sweep Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. Freshman Joe Trenerry is slated to make his first collegiate start on the mound.
The Boilermakers scored 13 unanswered runs in the middle innings of game 1, overcoming a brief 3-1 deficit in a 16-4 victory. The 9-0 win in the nightcap was Purdue's first shutout of the season. The Boilers clinched a series victory in a four-game set for the second weekend in a row and improved to 18-4 all-time at Ting Stadium (since 2022).
At 7-0, Purdue has kept pace with the 2022 team that started 15-0 for the best season-opening win streak in program history. The seven-game win streak is the Boilers' longest since the 15-0 start three years ago.
SATURDAY LEADERS
• Logan Sutter: 6-for-8, 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 2 BB, 5 R, 14 Total Bases
• Brandon Anderson : 4-for-8, 2B, Grand Slam, 5 RBI, BB, 2 HBP, 4 R
• Albert Choi: 5-for-8, RBI, 2 BB, 2 R, SB
• Eli Anderson: 2-for-4, 3 RBI, BB, HBP, 2 Sac Fly, 3 R, 3 SB
• CJ Richmond: 2-for-5, 3B, 3 RBI, 2 BB, R
• Easton Storey: Win, 5+ IP, H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 K
• Gavin Beuter: Save, 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, BB, 7 K
• Maclane Finley: 3 IP, 2 H, R, 2 BB, 5 K
Sutter tied team records for runs scored (5) and total bases (14) while becoming the first Boilermaker ever with six hits in a game. It had been nearly five years since Purdue's last five hit game – Evan Albrecht at Western Kentucky on March 8, 2020, in what proved to the final game of that abbreviated season. A Boilermaker had not scored five times in a game since David Blount in a February 2011 win at Morehead State. Nate Sickler also had 14 total bases when he hit for the cycle in an April 2001 win at Butler.
Sutter doubled (1st inning), homered (3rd), singled (4th), singled (5th), doubled (6th) and homered (7th) in his six at-bats. The second double was an opposite-field gapper and had the potential to become a triple, but Sutter pulled up at second base as the ball arrived at the cutoff man.
Sutter's home runs included a towering 392-foot blast over the left field foul pole and 360-foot no doubter off the videoboard in left field. It was his first multi-homer game as a Boilermaker.
SATURDAY NOTABLES
• Purdue's 17 strikeouts in the nightcap matched the third most in program history and represented the most since setting the team record (19) vs. UIC in March 2022. Easton Storey fanned six of the first eight batters he faced and 10 of the 17 total over five innings of one-hit ball. Gavin Beuter struck out NU's 4-5-6 hitters in order in the ninth to close out the win, completing a 12-out save.
• Brandon Anderson connected for the Boilers' first grand slam of the season, going deep with the bases loaded in the eight-run fifth inning in game 1. It was Purdue's second slam at Ting Stadium after Jake Parr hit one in March 2023. Anderson matched Sutter with five RBI, marking the first time since April 2013 Purdue had two players with five-plus RBI in the same game.
• Sutter reached base safely in 10 consecutive plates appearances from the sixth inning of Friday's win through the third inning of Saturday's nightcap. He posted the first 10-total base game by a Boilermaker since Paul Toetz in February 2023.
• Twenty hits powered the 16-run outburst Saturday. Purdue also had 20 hits in a victory vs. Michigan State last season but had not reached that benchmark away from Alexander Field since a March 2017 win at Ball State. Free passes have otherwise fueled the lineup in this series – drawing 41 total (29 walks, 12 HBP) over the three games.
• Sergio DeCello drew four walks in the nightcap of Saturday's doubleheader.
• Leadoff man Albert Choi reached base safely five times over the first five innings of game 1 Saturday, with his four-hit effort featuring two singles in the long fifth inning. It marked the second time Choi reached base five times in a game at Ting Stadium after posting a five-hit game against Purdue while he was playing for NJIT in February 2023. He reached base safely in nine of his first 10 plate appearances in this year's series vs. Niagara.
The Boilermakers go for the sweep Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. Freshman Joe Trenerry is slated to make his first collegiate start on the mound.