Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HANOVER, Ind. — The Earlham College baseball team opened play in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference on Saturday as the Quakers fell twice to Hanover College.

Hanover won the first game of the doubleheader 5-3 before taking the second contest 6-5.

After the Panthers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener, the Quakers were able to tie the game at 1-1 in the third on a sacrifice fly by Ted Williams (Harper Woods, MI, Grosse Pointe North).

In the bottom of the third, Hanover scored three times to take a 4-1 lead.

The Quakers were able to answer in the fourth with a pair of runs coming on a single by Ryan McCray (Lexington, KY, Henry Clay).

The Panthers added the final run of the contest bottom of the fourth.

McCray and Ryan Hayes (New Lebanon, OH, Dixie) led the Quakers with two hits each.

Adam Warning (Ft. Wright, KY, Covington Catholic) started on the mound for the Quakers. Warning (3-2) worked four innings giving up five runs on eight hits with one strikeouts.

Zach Lee (Lynn, IN, Randolph Southern) went the final two innings and didn't allowing a run on one hit.   

With Earlham leading 5-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth of the second game, a pair of unearned runs proved to be the difference.

Earlham led 1-0 in the second game with an unearned run in the first frame.

The Panthers scored two runs in the first and added two more in the second to build a 4-1 advantage before the Quakers responded to eventually take a one-run lead.

Williams tripled to knock in a run in the third. In the fifth, he doubled to drive in another run and the Quakers trailed 4-3.

McCray tied the game in the sixth with a RBI single.

A RBI groundout by Nate Chandler (Austin, IN, Austin ) put the Quakers on top in the eighth inning to set the stage for Hanover's comeback in the ninth.
 
Williams, Hayes and Tyler Schroeder (Richmond, IN, Richmond) had two hits apiece to lead Earlham.

Earlham starting pitcher Matt Brankle (Kokomo, IN, Taylor) went six innings and he surrendered four runs on six hits with seven strikeouts.

Colton Miller (Auburn, IN, Dekalb) tossed the next two innings and gave up one hit.

T. J. Plummer (Aurora, IN, South Dearborn) was the hard-luck losing pitcher for the Quakers. Plummer (0-1) gave up two unearned runs on three hits with one strikeout.

The Quakers (9-6, 0-2) finish the three-game series with the Panthers (12-5, 2-0) on Sunday with a single nine-inning affair that starts at noon.

Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score