The Indiana Hoosiers (18-14, 3-2) dominate the Maryland Terrapins (21-10, 3-5) 14-2 Saturday to hand Maryland back to back Big Ten series losses for the first time since 2019.

Indiana picked up right where they left off.

Star hitters Carter Mathison and Devin Taylor made up for their combined 0-12 effort on Friday, each recording singles off of Logan Koester in the top of the first. Nick Mitchell continued his excellent series for the Hoosiers. The right fielder took Koester deep with two runners on to give Indiana a quick 3-0 lead.

The Hoosiers continued their attack in the third. 

Tyler Cerny picked up a one-out infield single, then advanced to second on a deep center field flyout from Nick Mitchell. Indiana’s Joey Brenczewski drove Cerny in with a double on a perfectly executed hit-and-run play. That made it 4-0 for the Hoosiers.

They were not done for the inning either.

After Brenczewski’s double, Jake Stadler drew a four-pitch walk to put a runner in scoring position for Josh Pyne. Pyne grounded a Koester offering between first and second base to add another run for Indiana.

Potential first-round pick in the upcoming MLB draft Connor Foley was in control on the mound for the Hoosiers. Indiana’s ace had the Terps hitless through three with five K’s.

He faced his first true threat in the bottom of the fourth.

Foley plunked Eddie Hacopian with a curveball to lead off the inning, then a wild pitch sent him to second. Jacob Orr broke up Foley’s no-hit bid with a two-out infield single that pushed Hacopian to third, but Foley recovered again. Indiana’s right-hander struck out Jordan Crosland with a payoff pitch fastball to end the inning, holding the 5-0 lead for the Hoosiers.

“I think that you just got to take advantage of the moments,” head coach Matt Swope said of Maryland’s squandered oppotunity. “If you build something up, if something happens, you got to capitalize on it.”

Indiana chased Koester in the top of the fifth. Matt Swope pulled the plug after Maryland’s starter surrendered a walk and a single following a well-hit flyout to right.

“Logan’s been really good,” Coach Swope told reporters after the game. “It seems like when everything’s gone kind of wrong or against you a little bit. That’s just kind of baseball right?”

Koester finished with six runs on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts in four and a third innings.

Andrew Johnson came in from the bullpen with runners on the corners. He walked Jake Stadler to load the bases, then gave up a run on a fielder’s choice where Maryland just missed turning a 5-4-3 double play that would have ended the inning. That run was charged to Koester.

Johnson surrendered his own runs in the sixth.

He began the inning walking Carter Mathison, who advanced to third base after a steal and a wild pitch. Johnson then walked Devin Taylor, and both he and Mathison would score on a double from Tyler Cerny.

After Johnson gave up his fourth walk of the day, Matt Swope went to the bullpen again. He brought in Alex Walsh, who inherited runners on first and third.

Walsh began the inning with a walk to Joey Brenczewski, then both of Johnson’s runners scored on a hard-hit E6 when Kevin Keister bobbled a ground ball. That error also put runners on first and second for Josh Pyne, who crushed a fastball over the left field wall to make it 13-0 and truly blow the game open for Indiana.

The bottom half of that inning was Connor Foley’s last.

Foley struck out two more Terps in the sixth to bring his total to 10. The Hoosiers’ starter finished up with no runs, three walks and one (infield) hit in six innings.

Swope had high praise for Indiana’s starter after the game.

“You got to give that guy credit,” he said. “He was elite today. He was really, really good.”

It clearly did not matter who was on the mound for the Terps today.

Meade Johnson was the fourth pitcher for the Terps. After beginning the eighth inning with two quick outs, Johnson gave up a double and a walk to bring Carter Mathison back to the plate. Mathison continued to avenge his 0-6 Friday outing, driving in run number 14 for the Hoosiers on a bloop double to shallow left.

The Terps scrapped together a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth to spoil Indiana’s shutout bid.

The Hacopian brothers led off the inning with back to back singles, then advanced to second and third on a fielder’s choice. Chris Hacopian crossed the plate first off of a wild pitch from Seti Manase, then Eddie Hacopian scored on a fielder’s choice to make it 14-2.

Manase closed out the Hoosiers’ win with a groundout of Brayden Martin.

After the game, Swope stopped Chris Hacopian for a conversation in the outfield.

“It’s the first time him and these younger guys who maybe had a little bit of adversity,” he said of the conversation. “He’s going to be our leader, he’s going to be the future. So you just kind of talk to someone like him who’s very mature and say, ‘Hey, make sure you keep these young guys in the positive.’”

Maryland is on the verge of being swept in a weekend series for the first time since 2019.

“Sweeps are about character, and so is not getting swept,” Swope said when asked about the upcoming series finale. “We’ll work hard to just come out and play cleaner for everyone tomorrow.”