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Illini Drop Sunday Matchup With Purdue

The Illinois baseball team dropped Sunday's game to Purdue, 6-4 at Illinois Field. 

 

Purdue picked up two runs in the top of the ninth inning. Xavier Watson hit his first career homer in the fifth, a solo shot out to left field. Then, Cam McDonald hit a game-tying, 2-run homer to right field with two outs in the bottom of the eighth.

 

Purdue (9-15) would respond in the ninth though with a go-ahead, 2-run double from Miles Simington off Jack Crowder.

 

After consecutive games with 13+ runs and 15+ hits, the offense hit a snag. The Illini were only able to score four runs and record four hits in the game.

 

The Illini took two straight from Michigan State Friday and Saturday over the weekend and will wrap up their pod today against Purdue at 3 p.m. CT. Aidan Maldonado will get his first start of the season.

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