DANVILLE, Ky. – The Centre baseball team returned home from a long road trip to begin a three-game set with the Concordia-Chicago Cougars. The visiting Cougars took both games of Saturday's doubleheader, winning by scores of 8-4 in game 1 and 5-2 in game 2.
Game 1: Concordia 8, Centre 4
- The Colonels got on the board first as
Ayden Lohr smacked a double the other way into the gap to lead off the third and eventually scored on an RBI groundout by
Ben Prather.
- In the top of the fourth, the first six Concordia hitters reached on five hits and an error. The Cougars eventually put six runs on the board and tacked on another in the fifth with a leadoff homer.
- Centre got the run right back in the bottom of the fifth when Lohr deposited an opposite field solo shot.
- The Colonels added two more in the seventh. After
Aaron Lopez and
Karson Thompson walked,
Jamie Laframboise hit a ground-rule double to score the first run, and then Lohr legged out an infield single to plate the second. That was as close as Centre got, as CUC added another solo homer in the eighth to cap off the scoring.
Game 2: Concordia 5, Centre 2
- The Cougars got off to the hot start in the first inning with a pair of quick runs.
- Lohr again jumpstarted a Centre rally in the second with a double down the left field line, eventually scoring on a base hit up the middle by Laframboise.
- The Colonels tied the game in the bottom of the third after
Evan Weyler left no doubt on a solo homer over the big wall in left field.
- Concordia retook the lead in the fourth, getting a run without the benefit of a hit as they used a hit by pitch, a wild pitch and an error to take a 3-2 lead.
- The lead reached 5-2 after a pair of unearned runs in the fifth. Centre stranded runners in scoring position in the bottom of the fifth, and again put two runners on in the ninth following singles by Laframboise and
Michael Lynch, but failed to get the runners across.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORES
- The bottom of the order did the most damage for the Colonels as the 7-8-9 hitters combined for nine of Centre's 12 runs across the two games. Lohr went 5-9 at the plate with three runs scored, two RBIs and his second career homer.
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Aidan Christmas had his best outing of the season in relief of Prather in game 2, pitching four scoreless innings.
NEXT UP
Centre baseball will conclude its series with Concordia-Chicago on Sunday.
