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Box Score 2 MIDWAY, Ky. - With 10 home runs, another new pitching record being set and a wild final inning, Midway's Sunday senior day baseball doubleheader had a little bit of everything.
Most importantly for the Eagles, it had two more wins, as they stretched their win streak to six games and clinched a home game in the first round of the River States Conference Tournament with 15-5 and 7-6 wins.
The Eagles also held a ceremony between the two games to celebrate soon-to-be-graduating players Cam Head, Nick Eastham, Jonathan Watson, Ryan Lee Hayes, Joshua Robinson, Skyler Lucas, Spencer Lowe, Preston Howard, Noah Branham, Blake Samons, Konnor Lewis and Cam Smith.
GAME ONE
Following a string of bizarre plays in the first inning, which included a runner being thrown out at home and a Bearcat defender climbing the wall to rob Shane Taylor of a home run, Midway took control with one swing in the second, as Eli Glasscock, who was the player thrown out at home the previous inning, cleared the bases with a grand slam.
It was the second of three hits for Glasscock, who also walked and scored two runs.
That was the first of four home runs the Eagles would hit, with two coming from Nick Eastham.
Fresh off a 4-for-4 game Saturday, Eastham hit a pair of three-run bombs. His second home run in the seventh proved to be his second walk-off in as many days, as he also cliched a run-rule win with a two-run double Saturday in a game that also ended by the final score of 15-5.
Britten Robinson also homered on a two-run shot in the sixth, while Taylor rebounded from his missed home run in the first with a two-run single in the third and an RBI double in the fifth. He finished the game 3-for-5 and scored three times.
The offense was supported by a second-straight scoreless performance by Jackson Lee, who allowed just one hit in five-and-a-third innings, striking out eight with five walks.
Brescia, which had just two hits in the first six innings, had five runs on five hits, including two home runs in the seventh before the game-ending blast by Eastham, who went 7-for-10 with nine RBIs and five runs scored in the series.
GAME TWO
A sweep seemed like a given thanks to another long-ball display in game two, as Robinson homered in the second inning before Josh Halterman and Taylor went back-to-back to open the third.
In his last four games against Brescia dating back to last season, Taylor, who added an RBI single in the fifth, has been an absolute terror, going 13-of-18 with 11 RBIs and eight runs scored.
Isaac Tencza had two hits, including an RBI single in the first inning, while Robinson added another RBI on a sixth-inning sacrifice fly to push Midway to a 7-3 lead going into the seventh.
But a defense that was one inning away from a fifth-consecutive errorless game fell apart, committing three as the Bearcats also drew two walks, closing within 7-6 and loading the bases with two outs and a full count.
Luckily, the rally stopped there, as Midway reliever Jesse Komoroski found the plate and blew a fast ball past Joshua Cossitt, moving the Eagles to 18-21 overall and 10-11 in the conference.
BURTON SETS CAREER WIN RECORD
A day after teammate Owen Clark broke the program's single-season strikeout record, Dylan Burton set a new mark of his own with his 13th career win.
Burton, who struck out five in four innings to earn his fifth win of the season, broke the previous mark of 12, set by Brandon Aoki in 2018 and 19.
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