OAKLAND CITY, Ind. - A six-run first inning in game one and a two-out, seventh-inning error in game two doomed Midway baseball, which fell 10-5 and 4-3 in a doubleheader against River States Conference co-leader Oakland City Saturday.
GAME ONE: OAKLAND CITY 10, MIDWAY 5
The Eagles managed to retire the first two Mighty Oak batters in the first inning only for the next eight to reach. The six-run first gave way to a three-run third before the Eagles finally got on the board with a three-run
Barrett McGill home run in the fourth.
McGill and
Ayden Sciandra both had two hits with Sciandra also scoring a ninth-inning run on a pinch-hit, RBI single by
Cole Ginter.
GAME TWO: OAKLAND CITY 4, MIDWAY 3
Midway would get all its scoring in a four-batter sequence in the fifth inning. Down 3-0, the Eagles tied the game on RBI singles by
Grant Hotchkiss,
Eli Glasscock and
Josh Halterman.
The teams would combine for just one hit the rest of the way, but the Mighty Oaks were able to manufacture a walkoff run in the bottom of the seventh.
After leading off the inning with a walk, Dicky Gonzalez advanced on a sacrifice bunt, then with two outs, scored the winning run off of Midway's fourth fielding error of the afternoon.
Looking to snap a five-game losing streak in River States games, the Eagles (16-20, 7-10) will complete a three-game series in Oakland City at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
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