OWENSBORO, KY- The Kentucky Wesleyan College baseball team split day one against Tiffin University. The Panthers dropped the first game of the double-header 11-1 before coming back with vengeance to win 12-1 in the second game.
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Game 1: Tiffin 11, KWC 1
The Dragons scored two runs in the first to take a 2-0 lead.
Nolan Johnson pitched three scoreless innings after the first, but the Dragons fought through it in the top of the fifth, scoring six runs.
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Chase Andrews started off the bottom of the fifth with a ball to the middle of his back and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Andrews scored from a double down the left field line from
Robert Chayka.
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Cody Bridges and Andrews both recorded a double on the day. Johnson recorded five strikeouts on the day. Â
Game 2: Tiffin1, KWC 12
Hunter Combs started the party with a two-run homerun in the bottom of the second. Tiffin walked Chayka who scored on Bridges double to left field for a 3-0 lead. Immediately after,
Lane Kennemore singled to score Bridges.
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The Dragons added their first run in the fifth off of a solo homerun. With the bases loaded, Andrews upped their solo with a grand slam to center field (8-1). Ellis, Burke, and Kennemore all scored on the play adding four RBIs for Andrews.
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Wesleyan showed no mercy in the bottom of the sixth. Kennemore singled up the middle to score Wilcoxson, Bridges scored on a sacrifice fly from
Joseph Burke, Kennemore scored off a single from Andrews, and finally, Sisson singled up the middle to score
Dalton Ney (12-1)
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CJ Fairchild recorded his sixth win of the season. He pitched six innings allowed one run with four strikeouts. Andrews finished two for three on the day with five RBIs.
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The Panthers will be back in action against the Dragons Sunday, May 8
th. First pitch is scheduled for 11pm at Panther Park. Senior Day events will take place after the final game.
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