INDIANAPOLIS – Xavier scored six runs in the top of the sixth inning to move ahead with a 13-6 win over Butler at Bulldog Park on Friday. The Musketeers are now one game above .500 this year with a 23-22 record while the Bulldogs move to 17-28.
 
Carter Dorighi and Kade Lewis were outstanding from the plate in the series opener, combining for seven hits and six RBI. Dorighi hit a home run in the bottom of the first, would double to lead-off the third, and singled up the middle to score Ian Choi in the fourth.
 
Lewis singled through the right side of the infield to collect an RBI in the third and singled again in the fourth to make the game 5-4. His final at-bat went down as a two-RBI single to the gap in right.
 
Defensively, Tyler Banks got the start for Butler and was one of four Bulldogs to touch the rubber in the series opener. Banks allowed six runs off five hits over 4.1 innings of action and would hand the ball off to Andrew Crumbley for 1.1 innings of relief.

Grant Brooks matched Crumbley with four outs out of the pen and Cade Vota would throw a clean top of the eighth. Vota returned to throw the ninth for BU. Back-to-back doubles would add another run to the scoreboard. Xavier's 13 runs came off 14 hits.
 
Jonathan Kelly got the start for the visitors, but he would not earn the win after 3.1 innings of work. Instead, the win would fall to Alex Vera. Vera and Kelly each struck out three Bulldogs before Ashton Chronister would take over. Freshman Aiden Cook would get Xavier out of the bottom of the eighth inning and return for the ninth. He got one out and Terry Murray would be responsible for the final two.
 
These two teams will meet up again tomorrow for a 2 PM start.