GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The Westminster Blue Jays baseball team was back in action against the Greenville Panthers. They played a doubleheader; in Game 1, the Blue Jays lost an extra-inning brawl 8-7. In Game 2, they lost 9-7.
Game 1
The Blue Jays had an intense game against the Panthers. The Blue Jays were led by Bode Gebbink (St. Joseph, Ill./St. Joseph-Ogden). Gebbink pitched four innings facing 23 batters, giving up six hits and getting two strikeouts. In a relief for Gebbink, Kaden Eirhart (Altamont, Ill./Altamont) pitched two innings facing nine batters and got two strikeouts. Matt Trout (Lee's Summit/Blue Springs South), Hayden Sanborn (Arnold/St. John Vianney), and Jake Waeltermann (Barnhart/Seckman).
Offensively for the Blue Jays in the first inning, sophomore Skyler Bushey (Saint Albans, Vt./Bellows Free Academy) hit a two-run home run to center field. In the fourth inning, the Blue Jays had to return from a 5-2 Panthers lead. Matt Lukins (Clark/Rock Bridge) started the inning with a sacrifice fly to right field. Later in the inning, senior Steven Diaz (Highland, Ill./Highland) hit a three-run home run to right center scoring Austin Mayton (Wentzville/Fort Zumwalt North) and Spencer Keiser (Old Monroe/Winfield).
Game 2
In Game 2, the Blue Jays started the game off strong with a two-run home run from Quin Adelson to give them an early 2-0 lead. Diaz would score in the third to make it 3-0. The Panthers would tie it in the bottom half of the third to make it 3-3. Greenville would take a 4-3 lead in the fifth. Adelson would hit another two-run home run in the top of the sixth to put the Jays back on top 5-4.
The Panthers would tie it in the fifth and tack on four more runs in the sixth to take a 9-5 lead. Keiser hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning to make it 9-7. Westminster could not complete the comeback and lost Game 2 to the Panthers.
On the mound for the Blue Jays was junior Trent Morrow (Russellville/Russellville). He would go six innings with two strikeouts.
Adelson went 3-3 in the game with four RBI and two home runs. Keiser went 1-2 with two RBI.
The Blue Jays will return on Tuesday when they travel to St. Louis to take on Washington University.