EaKOKOMO, Ind. – The Earlham College baseball team fell to Transylvania University 11-4 on Friday evening in the HCAC Tournament.
Kyle Jeffries threw the opening two innings, allowing three runs on three hits with two strikeouts.
Braeden Lewis closed out the final 3.1 innings with no earned runs on just two hits.
Mitchell Roether went 2-3 with a walk.
Evan Duncan went 1-3 with a run scored and an RBI.
The Pioneers took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, and added two more runs in the top of the third.
Trailing 3-0,
Jackson McFarland hit an RBI-single to get a run back in the bottom of the third with two outs. The Quakers then scored two runs without a hit in the bottom of the fourth inning, including a squeeze play by Duncan to bring
Chris Barnett home.
The Pioneers scored five runs on three hits and an error in the top of the fifth inning to retake the lead. Transy then scored two runs on two hits in the top of the sixth.
Trailing 10-3,
Ian Bullis had a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning after a pair of hits by
Austin Dick and Barnett.
Earlham will be back in the tournament tomorrow, playing at 1:15 against the winner of Hanover and Rose-Hulman. A win tomorrow would send the Quakers into a rematch with Transylvania in the HCAC Championship series.
