QUEENS – The Butler baseball team collected their 15th win of the season by defeating the St. John's Red Storm 8-4 on Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs recorded 11 hits while limiting the Johnnies to just five. Grant Brooks got the win and Andrew Crumbley was credited with a save.
 
Ben Whiteside got the start in the getaway game and would toss the first four innings before handing the ball off to Brooks (2-2). Whiteside threw 81 pitches and would only give up three hits. Brooks was lights out over two innings keeping the Johnnies off the base paths. Gage Vota, Nick Miketinac, Brett Sherrard and Crumbley were also impact players in the win. Crumbley got the final four outs for BU. Neither he or Sherrard allowed a hit in their outing.
 
Butler got extra base hits from Carter Dorighi and Kade Lewis. Billy Wurch also supplied some offense with a solo home run to left in the sixth.
 
The 'Dawgs opened the scoring in the third with an RBI ground out from Joey Urban that scored Dorighi. The Johnnies took their only lead of the game in the bottom half of the inning, but BU would continue to fight to earn the win.
 
Dorighi hit a two-RBI single through the left side in the fourth and Ethan Vecrumba delivered an RBI single in the fifth. BU was able to score two runs in the fifth to take a 5-2 lead before the Wurch homer.
 
Dorighi, Lewis and Jack Moroknek all had multi-hit games for Butler. Dorighi was 2-for-4 with a team-high two RBIs and a run scored.
 
Butler will ride this momentum into a midweek road game at Eastern Illinois on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 4 PM.