Iowa baseball falls to Purdue in Big Ten Tournament elimination game

Iowa baseball's Big Ten Tournament run ended May 21 with an 8-1 loss to Purdue in an elimination game in Omaha. The Hawkeyes scored first in the top of the fourth inning when Brolan Frost singled to left field to score Miles Risley. That would be Iowa's only run of the game as the Boilermakers pounded out 10 hits and scored eight unanswered runs.

Kellen Strohmeyer was 3-for-3 at the plate for Iowa. Caleb Wulf had two hits for the Hawkeyes. Five Iowa pitchers tried to shut down No.

5 seed Purdue, which advanced to the single-elimination stage of the tournament to face UCLA. The No. 8 seed Hawkeyes fell to 33-23.

This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Purdue beats Iowa Hawkeyes baseball in Big Ten elimination game