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Midway baseball senior day photo
Midway baseball honored 12 seniors after a Sunday game against Indiana Southeast.
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Winner Indiana Southeast INDIANA 32-13
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Midway MIDWAY 24-19
Winner
Indiana Southeast INDIANA
32-13
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Final
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Midway MIDWAY
24-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Indiana Southeast INDIANA 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 2 0 1 9 9 2
Midway MIDWAY 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 1 2 0 8 10 1

W: Jack Skidmore (3-0) L: Cole, Brenden (0-3) S: Alston Whitworth (4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Eagle baseball hosts senior day, falls to No. 22 IUS in 10 innings

MIDWAY, Ky. - Midway forced extra innings on a ninth-inning Taylor Voorhees home run, but No. 22 Indiana Southeast took advantage of Eagle defensive struggles to complete a three-game sweep with a 9-8, 10-inning win in the finale of the River States Conference Series of the Week Sunday.

After the game, Midway held a senior day celebration for 12 soon-to-be departing players. Those honored were Cole Ginter, Alex Scoular, Grant Stone, Mahrlon Torres, Hayden Dunham, Luke Richardson, Xavier Hart, Matthew Poe, Jose Aviles, Tyler Pyles, Daniel Terrazas and David Nikolayenko.

After the teams played a wild doubleheader to open the series on Friday, things got loopy again in Sunday's finale. 

With the Eagles holding a a 3-2 lead with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh, the Grenadiers got back-to-back two-run hits from Coulter Hamilton (double) and Trevor Goodwin (triple).

Midway responded by scoring two runs on an IUS error in the bottom of the seventh before the Grenadiers scored twice more on a two-run Chance Bently single in the top of the eighth to make it 8-5.

Scoular, who got Midway on the board with a two-run single in the fourth inning, added a third RBI with an eighth-inning single to get the Eagles within 8-6 going into the ninth.

That set the stage for Voorhees to deliver the biggest moment of a 4-for-5 afternoon. With a runner on and two outs, Voorhees blasted a game-tying home run to left field, which ultimately forced extra innings.

The momentum would quickly fade, as leadoff batter Gabe Yonto reached on an error and stole two bases to get to third with two outs.

Midway looked set to get out of the inning when Kasen Park hit what looked to be a routine fly ball to left. But an cross-blowing wind created outfield havoc, as the ball re-directed out of the reach of an Eagle defender and in for what proved to be a game-winning triple.

A Brayden Burton single and Max Jewusiak walk put two runners on with one out, but IUS reliever Alston Whitworh recovered with back-to-back strikeouts to end the game and hand the Eagles their sixth-consecutive loss.

Now 24-19 and 13-11 in the RSC, Midway is still in good position to clinch a spot in the conference tournament despite its recent struggles.

The Eagles are currently in fourth the league standings ahead of Brescia (12-12), Indiana Kokomo (12-12), Rio Grande (11-13) and Kentucky Christian (11-13), with the top-six making it into the postseason.

While there are multiple clinching scenarios for Midway, the best path in is to win two games at West Virginia Tech (16-29, 5-19) in the regular season finale next weekend. That series will open with a single game at 3 p.m. Friday and a doubleheader beginning at noon Saturday.

Prior to that, the Eagles will host a non-conference game against Pikeville at 3 p.m. Tuesday, the final home game of the 2026 season.
 
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