A.J. Ladwig pitched six scoreless innings in the Wichita State baseball team’s 8-1 victory over Oral Roberts on Tuesday. 

The first Golden Eagle hit didn’t come until the sixth inning either, when WSU already led 4-0. 

“A.J. came out and not only got ahead in the count, but made some really good pitches with two strikes on the hitters,” WSU coach Gene Stephenson said. “That’s something he’d been not doing so well and that’s why people were getting base hits off him a lot.”

Oral Roberts scored its lone run in the top of the seventh, before WSU answered with three more runs in the bottom of that inning. 

WSU out-hit Oral Roberts 12-2. 

Ladwig’s final numbers came to 6.2 innings pitched, giving up 2 hits, 1 run and striking out four. Aaron LaBrie finished the game on the mound, refusing to give up a hit in the final 2.1 innings. 

Oral Roberts saw 10 different pitchers hit the mound, seven of which didn’t pitch a full inning. 

Erik Harbutz led the Shockers with 3 RBI. 

The win is the second this season over Oral Roberts for the Shockers, who won in Tulsa on Feb. 19, 5-4. 

WSU is now 6-4 on the season and have won six of its last seven games after being swept by Pittsburgh in the opening series. 

The Shockers play again this afternoon against Nebraska-Omaha at 3 p.m. before hosting three games against Texas-Pan American Friday, Saturday and Sunday.