Normal, IL – Clay Dungan and Roby Enriquez slammed home runs to key a six-run first inning which carried Indiana State to a 16-3 win over Dallas Baptist, and the 2019 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament title Saturday at Duffy Bass Field.

Dungan led off the game with a blast over the right-center field wall, his ninth of the season. After an out and a walk, Enriquez slugged his fourth of the season. Five singles in the next six batters—the last by Dungan – produced the other three runs as the Sycamores sent 11 men to bat in the first inning.

A CJ Huntley leadoff homer and a two-run double by Jarrod Watkins made it 9-0 Indiana State in the third. Huntley plated the 10^th Sycamore run with a fourth-inning single driving in Chris Ayers.

Dungan paced the 16-hit Sycamore attack with his two hits in the first and two more in the eighth, finishing 4-for-5 with two singles, a double, a home run and a walk in six appearances. Leading 10-1 in the eighth, Indiana State collected four singles, a double, two hit batters and a walk to tally six runs.

The Sycamores (41-16) won their fourth game in two days to capture their seventh Valley tournament title, first since 1995. It's the 10^th NCAA Tournament bid for Indiana State, the first since 2014. Indiana State's sweep of DBU on Saturday avenged a three-game sweep of the regular-season series by the Patriots.

DBU (41-18) and Illinois State (34-24), regular-season co-champions of the Valley, both are awaiting at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament.  

The No. 3 seed Sycamores forced the second championship game of the tournament by beating No. 1 seed DBU 9-5 earlier Saturday afternoon, thanks to a three-run homer by Chris Ayers and 4 2/3 innings of middle relief from winning pitcher Austin Moralis (1-0).

Luke Bandy's RBI single in the fourth, one of just four Patriot hits, scored Jimmy Glowenke with the first DBU run of the game. The Patriots tacked on two more in the eighth.

All-Tournament Team
C -    Herbert Iser, DBU
1B -  Andres Sosa, DBU
2B – Jarrod Watkins, Indiana State
3B -  Joe Butler, Illinois State
SS -  Aidan Huggins, Illinois State
DH -  Chris Ayers, Indiana State (MVP)
OF -   Ian Walters, Southern Illinois
OF -  Luke Bandy, DBU
OF -  CJ Huntley, Indiana State
P -    Tyler Whitbread, Indiana State
P -   Jordan Martinson, DBU
P-    Brent Headrick, Illinois State
 
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Peyton Sherlin, DBU