WICHITA, Kan. – The Wichita State baseball team posted a doubleheader split with the South Florida Bulls Friday, May 14, at Eck Stadium, Home of Tyler Field, dropping game one, 8-2, before winning the nightcap, 9-3.
 
The Shockers (26-19, 14-11 American) and Bulls (21-23, 11-11 American) are scheduled to play game three of the four-game series Saturday, May 15, at 2 p.m.
 
After being held to only two runs on eight hits in the game one setback, Wichita State responded in game two, scoring nine runs on 10 hits on its way to the victory.
 
Andrew Stewart tallied two hits and drove in a game-high three runs, while Seth Stroh added a pair of hits, including a double and triple, and Couper Cornblum added a triple and batted in two, pacing the Shockers in game two. Jack Sigrist and Paxton Wallace also had two hits in the contest, respectively.
 
Junior right-hander Liam Eddy (5-7) earned the win on the mound after allowing just two earned runs on five hits with six strikeouts and three walks in seven innings pitched.
 
The Shockers scored one run in the fifth, three in the sixth and five in the seventh to break a scoreless stalemate that lasted through the first four innings.
 
Sigrist got WSU on the scoreboard in the fifth, scoring Stroh on a RBI single to left-center.
 
USF responded with two runs in the sixth, briefly grabbing a 2-1 lead, before the Shockers plated a trio of runs in the bottom of the sixth when Cornblum and Stroh hit back-to-back RBI triples, and Stewart smacked an RBI single up the middle, giving WSU a 4-2 advantage.
 
Wichita State ballooned its lead to 9-2 with five in the bottom of the seventh. Corrigan Bartlett was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded for the opening run of the frame, before Cornblum hit a sacrifice fly to right, driving in Wallace. Garrett Kocis, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter, drove in the third run of the inning on an RBI ground out, prior to Stewart scoring two on an RBI single to right field.
 
Kocis made his first appearance in a game since being sidelined with an injury April 10.
 
Carmine Lane had two hits, including a double, and Jake Sullivan tallied a pair of RBI, leading USF in game two.
 
South Florida right-hander Collin Sullivan (2-2) suffered the loss after giving up four earned runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks in six innings of work.