NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- The Illinois Wesleyan baseball team could muster only three singles while North Central hammered out 16 hits in a 12-0 win over the Titans on Wednesday, May 3, in a game moved to Zimmerman Stadium in Naperville, Ill., due to the threat of poor weather in Bloomington.

The loss leaves IWU with a 20-15 overall record and a 13-8 record, still in first place, in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin while the Cardinals are 16-15 overall and 11-8 in the CCIW.

Evan Blunk pitched seven shutout innings in the run-rule shortened game that took less than two hours. Junior third baseman Jake Stewart led off the game with a single, senior Jarrod Juskiewicz singled in the fourth, and freshman first baseman Garrett Shea singled in the fifth. Each of the three who got hits were erased on double plays.

All nine hitters in the Cardinals' lineup had a base hit and North Central sent six or more batters to the plate in all seven innings, scoring in every inning but the seventh.

Starter Matt Banaitis (5-2) took the loss on the mound, lasting four innings while allowing 12 hits, 10 runs (seven earned), three walks and a pair of strikeouts.

What's Next?
Illinois Wesleyan hosts Wheaton College in a 6 p.m. single game on Friday, May 5. It will be "Seniors' Night" for the Titans, who will play a doubleheader at Wheaton at 1 p.m. on Saturday.