Tri-C Baseball Season Ends with losses to #5 Lansing

The Tri-C Baseball Team ended a successful comeback season at Ron Mottl Field on Thursday evening as #5 in NJCAA Lansing CC swept the first two games of a best of three series to advance.  

Game 1 L 9-4

The Stars jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and added to their lead with 2 more in the 4th.  A Jacob Downey solo shot in the bottom of the 4th drew the Tops to a 6-1 deficit but the Stars were just too much and went on to win 9-4.  Sloan Ulrich took the loss on the mound for the Tops but Gavin Mangus and Riley McElwain held the Stars to only 3 runs the last 5 and 2/3 innings to give the Tops a shot.  At the plate, Downey went 2 for 5 with a double and homerun.  Kazmierczak came in as a pinch hitter and had a 2 RBI basehit with Koons picking up the other RBI.

Game 2  L 4-1

In a tighly contested ballgame, the Tops just couldn't muster enough offense against the talented arms of Lansing.  On the mound, Skylar Kries had a quality start going 4 innings, scatterin  hits and 3 runs while striking out 4.  Jackson Judy also had a solid outing going the final 2 innings giving up 2 hits and a run while striking out 2.  The offense was hard to come by as the Tops collected only 5 singles (Silas Moore, Mason Koons, Carter Blakeman, Kyle Koehler and Carter Gast).  Koehler drove in the Tops only run.

Tri-C ends the season with a 28-12 overall record.