INDIANAPOLIS - The Marian University baseball team played its way into the 2010 Mid-Central College Conference Tournament as the Knights earned the No. 4 seed with an 11-1 victory in eight innings over Goshen College at MU Baseball Field on Wednesday afternoon.

The Knights put runs on the board in each of the first six innings, allowed just one run to the Maple Leafs and opened a 10-1 lead over the first six innings.

Junior Bobby Willis led off the bottom of the first inning with a double and scored on an RBI-single by junior Todd Ungru, who had another massive day, to open a 1-0 lead. An RBI-sacrifice fly from freshman Brett Metcalf gave MU a 2-0 lead after two innings, while back-to-back RBI-doubles from Ungru and junior Cory Emmons gave the Knights a 4-0 lead after three innings.

Goshen tallied an RBI-single in the fourth, but the Knights responded with a four-run bottom half to open an 8-1 lead after four innings. A double by Metcalf was followed by an RBI-double by Willis to open a 5-1 lead. A perfect bunt down the third base line allowed senior Tony Goodpaster to reach and Willis turned the corner at third and scored on the throw to first to make the score 6-1. Ungru then stepped to the plate and hit an RBI-triple to score Goodpaster and open the lead to 7-1. The final run would come on a wild pitch as the Knights really began to pour it on.

The Knights' defense and pitching held Goshen as MU posted one in the fifth on an RBI-double by junior Jake Mullis and one in the sixth on an RBI-single by junior Austin Gibson to put Marian up 10-1 through six innings. They finished off the 11-1 victory in the eighth when sophomore James Storms was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to give MU the 10-run rule victory to send them into the MCC Tournament.

Senior Ricky Parrish threw seven innings of four-hit ball. He allowed just one run, walked one and struck out three to improve to 7-3 on the season.

Ungru led the Knights after he went 3-for-3 with a single, a double and a triple. He was walked and hit by a pitch in an effort for the cycle. He also drove in three runs for the Knights. Emmons finished 3-for-4 with an RBI, while Willis, Goodpaster, Gibson and Mullis each added two hits.

The Knights will head to the 2010 MCC Tournament to take on No. 3-seeded Bethel College on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Marion, Ind.