YPSILANTI, Mich. – The Butler baseball team improved to 32-16 on the season after recording an 11-6 victory at Eastern Michigan. A total team effort helped Butler find the win column. Seven different players came up with an RBI and five different student-athletes would end the night with multiple hits.
 
Butler scored 11 runs off 13 hits. Zach Jarosz, Gehrig Parker, Garrett Christman, Andy Bennett and James Gargano all shared the team lead with two hits. Tyler Houston, Parker, Michael Hartnagel and James Gargano were all in the box score with two RBI.
 
Butler scored at least one run in each of the first seven innings. The game got off to a fast start with Zach Jarosz doubling down the right field line. Tyler Houston would join him on base after being walked and Michael Hartnagel would send each base runner home on a single up the middle.
 
Butler's two-run lead quickly moved to 5-0 in the top of the second inning. Houston would walk again during his second at-bat with the bases loaded. Gehrig Parker followed in the lineup and delivered a single to centerfield that scored two more runs.
 
Eastern Michigan made a pitching change at the start of the third inning and the new arm got two quick outs. He couldn't close the frame however after hitting Zach Parker. James Gargano would triple to centerfield with Parker on first and the BU catcher would come all the way around to score the team's sixth run of the game.
 
The Eagles would score half of their runs in the bottom half of the third. Owings hit a three-run home run to right field that scored Schuemann and Jones.
 
Butler returned to the scoreboard in the fourth with a sac fly from Garrett Christman and the game moved to 8-3 in the fifth after a sac fly from Houston.
 
Two more BU runs came home in the sixth inning. Harrison Freed doubled to center to score Christman and Gargano would send a sac fly into left to score Freed.
 
The Eagles scored a solo run in the sixth after a double from Easter, but Butler would get that run back in the seventh on a Cole Malloy RBI.
 
Eastern Michigan would score the final two runs of the game in the bottom of the seventh, but the comeback would end there giving Butler the five-run victory.
 
John MacCauley got the start and would throw the first three innings of the game for the Bulldogs. He handed the ball off to Kevin Napoleon who was credited with the win. Napoleon struck out three over 2.1 innings of action. Quentin Miller, Joe Graziano and Landen Haney would also touch the rubber for BU.
 
Butler will return to action with a three-game series at St. John's. The games will be played Thursday-Saturday.