By RICK PETERSON
Seaman product Maclane Finley picked up the pitching win Friday in Washburn's 13-3 MIAA victory over Arkansas-Fort Smith. [File photo/TSN]The Ichabods will go for the series sweep on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.
The Lions (4-32 overall, 3-24 MIAA) led off the game with a pair of hits, scoring one on a double steal.
After the bases were loaded on a walk and error, a second run came around to score on a walk to make it 2-0.
In the home half of the first Washburn's Trenton Barry led off with a ground-rule double and came around to score after Jack Borgmann walked and stole second.
Another run scored on a wild pitch before Brandt Beeby cleared the bases with a triple to the center field wall making it a 4-2 game. Another run scored a wild pitch to cap off the five-run first.
Seaman product Maclane Finley settled in on the mound with four straight scoreless innings after the first.
The score stayed 5-2 until the Ichabods (15-23, 11-13) loaded the bases in the fifth.
Washburn scored one run on a ground ball doubleplay to push the lead to four.
Next time up Arkansas-Fort Smith got a one-out walk followed by two stolen bases and an error to score a run and make it 6-3.
A hit batter and error put two on for Washburn in the sixth.
Brooks Richardson plated one with a single through the left side. Two batters later Ian Luce laced a single into centerfield to go up 8-3.
Griffin Huiatt took over on the mound in the sixth inning and delivered a clean seventh inning before handing things over to Blake Priest, who kept the lead intact with a zero in the eighth.
In the bottom of the eighth a single and two walks loaded the bases with two outs. Borgmann worked another walk, scoring a run.
Levi Risenhoover followed with a shot up the middle that scored two and made it an 11-3 game.
Kuyper Kendall shot a single into right field that scored two runs and ended the game 13-3 after eight innings.
Washburn led 9-6 in hits and worked eight walks compared to five for the Lions. The Ichabods did have two errors in the field while the visitors committed one.
Three pitchers appeared for Washburn with Finley tossing five innings and allowing one earned run while striking out four.
Huiatt tossed two innings without allowing an earned run and Priest needed 14 pitches for his one scoreless frame.
Barry went 3-5 in the leadoff spot and scored two runs. Brooks Richardson had a multi-hit day, going 2-4 with an RBI, while Jack Borgmann reached base three times with three walks.
The Ichabods will go for the series sweep on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.
