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WICHITA -- The Wichita State baseball team (6-2) dropped its first home game of the season as a two-run blast by BYU (4-6) in the sixth inning proved to be the difference, as the Cougars defeated the Shockers, 3-1, Tuesday afternoon at Eck Stadium - Home of Tyler Field.

Marc Oslund (2-0) picked up the win for the Cougars, giving up just one run on three hits in 7.2 innings of work. Oslund walked four and struck out three on the day, while Jordan Muir picked up his second save for BYU, walking one in 1.1 innings of work.

Max Hutson (1-1) took the loss for the Shockers, giving up two runs on two hits in two innings of work. Starter Dalton Banwart scattered four hits in five innings of work, allowing just one earned run with no walks and two strikeouts. Josh Smith did not allow a hit in two innings of relief work, striking out three.

Wichita State struck first in the second with an unearned run after Chris O'Brien reached on an error by the Cougar right fielder before advancing to third. The Shocker third-baseman came home a batter later after Clinton McKeever lifted a ball to right field for a sacrifice-fly, bringing home O'Brien and giving the Shocks a 1-0 lead.

BYU answered with a run in the top of the fourth thanks to a single by third baseman Steve Parker that was followed by a Jonathan Cluff double that sent Parker to third. The Cougars plated their first run of the day one batter later when Parker scored on a one-out ground ball by shortstop Brandon Relf that tied the game at 1-1 after four.

The Cougars took a 3-1 lead in the sixth on a two-run homer by Cluff but the Shockers threatened in the eighth, putting runners on first and second with two outs on a pair of walks, but WSU stranded them both and could not get anything going offensively in the ninth, falling for just the second time this year.

WSU is next in action when it travels to Ft. Worth, Texas this weekend for a three-game series against TCU.