WICHITA, Kan. -- In front of a packed house of 5,496 local schoolchildren, Wichita State rolled past Massachusetts 12-2 on Friday afternoon at Eck Stadium. The game was halted in the bottom of the seventh due to run rule.

After the Minutemen scratched across a run in the top of the first, the Wichita State offense shook off a slow start to score in each of the final five innings. The assault began in the third, when Chuck Ingram rifled an RBI triple and came in to score one batter later on a sacrifice fly from Brock Rodden that gave Wichita State a 2-1 lead.

Jack Little got in on the fun with an RBI double in the fourth, one of three hits in the game for freshman infielder. He capped off a three-run fifth inning with an RBI single, scoring Kyte McDonald, who had tripled home two runs earlier in the inning.

A four-run sixth made it 10-1 Shockers, highlighted by a two-RBI double from Payton Tolle. Mauricio Millan plated a run with a sacrifice fly and David Herring secured another multi-hit game with an RBI single.

UMass (3-10) pulled a run back in the top of the seventh on an RBI single from Zack Zaetta, but the Shockers (11-10) ended the game with two runs in the bottom of the inning. Ingram slammed a solo home run to dead center, then Brock Rodden doubled, moved to third on a passed ball, and scored when Garrett Pennington's infielder grounder was not fielded cleanly.

The offensive outburst supported another fine start from Clark Candiotti (2-2), who overcame the bumpy first inning to blank the Minutemen over his final five frames. The right-hander finished with nine strikeouts and just one walk, allowing six hits.

Max LeBlanc (0-1) took the loss for UMass, surrendering three runs in 3.1 innings.

The Shockers and Minutemen continue the series on Saturday afternoon. First pitch from Eck Stadium is scheduled for 2:00 pm.