Indian Creek baseball falls to Edgewood

<p>The Edgewood baseball team arrived late to Indian Creek because of traffic issues Tuesday.</p><p>Despite the inconvenience of extra bus time, the Mustangs stunned the Braves 8-2 in a battle of ranked teams —Indian Creek entered the game at No. 7 with the Mustangs just a notch behind at No. 8.</p><p>More important, Edgewood (6-1) gets its first Western Indiana Conference win while Indian Creek drops to 1-1 in the conference and 6-2 overall.</p><p>So far this season, both teams have had a lot of firepower.</p>[sc:text-divider text-divider-title="Story continues below gallery" ]Click here to purchase photos from this gallery<p>Edgewood has been averaging 11 runs a game, while the Braves, coming off their second straight Johnson County tournament championship, entered the game with 72 runs (10.3 per game).</p><p>Nobody scored any runs Tuesday until the third inning, when Edgewood opened up the scoring with two runs, thanks to a pair of singles and a pair of errors.</p><p>It got a bit worse for Indian Creek in the next frame as the Mustangs slipped in three more hits and were also aided by a pair of walks, four stolen bases, two passed balls and another error.</p><p>The end result was four runs and starting pitcher Trevor Ankney getting pulled.</p><p>Ankney had only surrendered four hits and had struck out six, but also had three walks and generally couldn’t buy a break on the infield hits (Edgewood had three).</p><p>Nor was he helped by his batters.</p><p>Indian Creek had only two hits when Ankney was on the mound and three total, fanning 10 times.</p><p>The Braves made things exciting in the bottom half of the fourth, loading the bases on relief pitcher Cooper Thacker with no outs, but they could only muster a single unearned run. They did the same in the sixth, and that was it.</p><p>One thing Indian Creek will need to address is that the Mustangs had a staggering 12 stolen bases. It has less than 24 hours to fix that problem, as the teams will battle it out again today, this time at Edgewood.</p>