By: Justin Hargrove, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Assistant Athletic Director
ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ baseball could not hold the lead against the Carl Albert State College Vikings in a road game this Tuesday. The Eagles led 7-6 in the bottom of the ninth inning when Jaylen Patterson hit a two-run homer to steal the victory.
The base paths were crowded in this high-scoring game. Carl Albert collected 13 hits and the Eagles had nine. ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ got on the board first after Andy Deleon singled and then stole second base, Deleon later scored to put the Eagles up 1-0. The Eagles scored 3 more runs in the top of the third behind the hitting of Cody Cleveland and Matt Scheurich to lead 4-0. The lead was short led as Carl Albert scored 4 runs in the bottom of the third to tie the game at 4-4.
The Vikings scratched out another run in the 4thto take the lead 5-4. In the top of the fifth inning, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ regained the lead after Jonathan Carrillo laid down a sacrifice bunt, scoring one run and John Michael Russ scored off a Scheurich double to left.
Both ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ and Carl Albert would plate runs in the seventh inning giving the Eagles a 7-6 lead over the Vikings.
Hunter Riley took the loss for ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ after allowing three hits and two runs over the final one and two-thirds innings, striking out one and walking zero.
Scheurich and Russ each had multiple hits for ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ with Scheurich going 3-for-4 at the plate to lead the Eagles in hits. Despite playing error free ball, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ could not come away with the win.
You can catch ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ at home again Saturday against BPCC starting at 1:00 p.m.
