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LWC Baseball splits doubleheader with Judson

By Charlie Balcom

The Lindsey Wilson baseball team split a pair of games with Judson (Ill.) on Saturday evening at Egnew Park.

The seventh-ranked Blue Raiders (15-6) pummeled the ball in the opener winning 15-2, but the Eagles (9-9), who are receiving votes in the national poll, bounced back by stealing the nightcap 5-4. Both contests were scheduled seven-inning games.


GAME 1

Lindsey Wilson exploded for 14 combined runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings to turn a 1-1 game into a 15-1 lead before the Eagles tacked on one final run in the seventh.

After a scoreless first, Judson scored the opening run of the day in the top of the second on a solo home run by Alec Galik. Lindsey Wilson found the equalizer in the bottom of the third after Caleb Ratzman scored on a groundout by Edgar Lebron.

Then the Blue Raiders began hitting anything and everything, scoring five runs in both the fourth and fifth innings and four more in the sixth to build the 15-1 lead.

Miguel Reyes led the offensive onslaught as he finished 4-for-5, including a pair of home runs, with three RBIs and three runs scored. Jayden Jackson had a perfect day at the plate going 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs. Lebron, Brandon Munoz, Aaron Ashton, Austin Atwell, Fabian Chirino and Victor Nazario each recorded one hit while Ratzman scored a team-high four times. The Blue Raiders would finish with 13 total hits in the win.

Lindsey Wilson also took advantage of Eagle pitching miscues as Judson issued seven walks in the game including six alone in the four-run sixth inning, along with four fielding errors from the visitors.

Tyler Russell (3-0) was the steady force on the mound as he picked up the complete-game victory, allowing the two earned runs on five hits with four strikeouts and no walks.

Judson starter Dan Gerke took the loss allowing six runs, three earned, on seven hits in his three and 2/3 innings.

GAME 2

Lindsey Wilson appeared to keep the hot bats swinging in the nightcap after scoring four runs in the bottom of the first, but Judson slowly crept back into the game, taking the lead in the top of the fifth and holding on for the 5-4 win.

The Blue Raiders scored all four runs in the first with two outs scoring on an error, a two-RBI single by Alec Salcedo, and an RBI single by Jan Carlos Ortiz.

But then the offensive production came to a screeching halt as the Blue Raiders were held to just two hits for the remainder of the game by Judson starting pitcher Angel Sanchez.

After the first inning stumble in which all four runs went unearned, Sanchez mowed through the Blue Raider lineup, including retiring a string of 11-straight batters from the third to sixth innings. Offensively, the Eagles cut into the four-run lead in the third inning with a pair of runs scored on a Blue Raider error and an RBI double. Judson cut it down to a one-run game in the fourth on a two-out double, then proceeded to take the lead in the fifth after a two-out, two-RBI single with the bases loaded.

Lindsey Wilson tried to rally in the final two innings but a strikeout with the tying run on third ended the threat in the sixth, and a pop out ended the game in the seventh with runners on first and second, giving the Eagles the come-from-behind win.

Daniel Ferrell (3-1) suffered his first loss of the season after entering to start the fifth and giving up the two earned runs on four hits.

Sanchez picked up the complete-game win for Judson, allowing four runs, none earned, on six hits.

The two teams meet one more time on Monday at 3 p.m. CT at Egnew Park.


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