PEORIA, Ill. – Bradley scored four times in the sixth inning Wednesday night and went on to a 5-1 win over SIUE in nonconference baseball at a cold and windy Dozer Park.

SIUE fell to 13-25 with the loss. Bradley improved to 21-10. The two teams split the season series. SIUE defeated Bradley in an earlier game in Edwardsville.

"Following a 1:20 delay prior to first pitch, neither team pushed a run across until Bradley was able to get on the board against SIUE starter Mike Miller (0-3) in the fourth inning. Max Murphy doubled to lead off the inning, and then scored later in the inning on a passed ball.

"It was a tough night for baseball," SIUE Head Coach Tony Stoecklin said. "Mike did a great job. He does a few things here and there, shoots himself in the foot, and cost himself a run. But he cut down his walks, he cut down his pitch total, and overall he did a nice job."

Miller tossed a career-high 5 1/3 innings. He was charged with three runs on four hits. He struck out two.

Skyler Geissinger, making his first-ever appearance on the mound for SIUE, gave up two runs on a hit and two walks in 2/3 of an inning. The Braves used three hits and the two walks to score four times in the inning.

Jacob Stewart, making his first pitching appearance this season, pitched a perfect seventh inning striking out one.

Stoecklin said having infielders-turned pitchers Geissinger and Stewart available will be helpful to the Cougars.

"It makes us a much better team," Stoecklin said. "I know Stewart and Skyler can get the job done. They have really good stuff on the mound. They just need to get the innings."

 The Cougars scored their only run of the game in the eighth inning. Austin Verschoore pinch hit and walked with two outs. Alec Saikal followed with a single to center. Devin Caldwell walked to load the bases. Geissinger was then hit by a pitch, forcing home Verschoore to make it 5-1. The Cougars did not score again and left the bases loaded in the eighth, nine men over the last four innings, and 10 for the game.

"I thought we took decent at-bats tonight," Stoecklin said. "We hit the ball hard quite a few times, but into the teeth of that wind it doesn't do much good. We didn't string enough hits together to score runs. We had a couple of opportunities late with men in scoring position and we couldn't get the big hit."

The Cougars finished with just six hits. No SIUE player had more than one hit.

SIUE returns to Ohio Valley Conference play with a weekend home series against Morehead State.