Childress noted that "the offense has carried us for the most part the last couple of months." That was not true in the K-State series. In the first two games, pitchers Kyle Nicholson and David Newmann allowed only two runs in 17 innings. Their performances made up for a couple of very slow games at the plate. Nicholson struck out nine in nine innings (yes, nine innings is a complete game) and got the 4-2 win. Newmann also averaged one strike out per inning in eight innings and got the 2-1 win. Game three was a different story. To say that we didn't "bring our good stuff" would be a bit of an understatement. Scott Migl got the start but was pulled after he gave up six runs in 1.1 innings. One would think that our bullpen would be well rested after only getting one inning of work in the past two games, but we had to send out three guys before we got a K. Kyle Thebeu (pitcher #4) got the bulk of the work and did well. In 4.1 innings he struck out four and only allowed one run. Unfortunately our batters could not catch up and we lost it 11-6.