Two days after winning a game in extra innings, the Centre College baseball team found itself on the opposite end of another extra inning game as the Colonels fell 7-5 in 10 innings to No. 22 Birmingham Southern Friday, March 29 in Danville, Ky.

Centre fell behind early as senior starting pitcher Joe Nash (Elizabethtown, Ky.) allowed a three-run home run to right field in the first innings.

The Colonels answered in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs as sophomore Trey Litsey (Louisville, Ky.) doubled home freshman Sam Spees (Dayton, Ohio), and freshman Jake Johnson (Louisville, Ky.) singled home Litsey to cut the lead to 3-2.

The Panthers added a run in the fourth and held a 4-2 lead until the sixth when Johnson scored junior Kyle Cook (Maineville, Ohio) on a ground out to make it 4-3. 

Centre took the lead in the seventh. Junior Chris Duzyk (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) reached on an error and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Senior Aaron Ammann (Winnetka, Calif.) followed with a single to put runners on first and third. Ammann stole second and then scored behind Duzyk on Spees' two-run single to go in front 5-4.

Birmingham Southern tied the game in the top of the ninth on a double play ground out and then scored twice in the top of the 10th to finish with the 7-5 victory.

Litsey suffered the loss on the mound for the Colonels. He allowed two runs on two hits in two innings of work. 

Spees and Cook each finished a pair of hits in five at bats to pace the offense. 

Centre and Birmingham Southern will play games two and three of the series Saturday, March 30. The first game of the doubleheader is slated to start at 1 p.m. at Gary Wright Field.