BASEBALL

Day one of the Forester baseball team’s series with Grace ended in a split with the Lancers’ three-run walk-off homer in the opener lifting them past their guests, 4-2, after which HU handed GC an 8-0 decision in the nightcap.

Both starting pitchers in game one allowed just one run during their time on the bump with most of the excitement materializing in the final frame.

Grace (7-7, 4-2) was quick to get on the scoreboard with a sac fly in their opening at bat for the early 1-0 lead. HU’s equalizer came in the third when Wilson Satchell Wilson dropped a shot into shallow center to knock in Langston Ginder who opened the frame with his first of two hits.

Both teams threatened several times over the course of the next few innings but couldn’t convert to make for the 1-1 stalemate heading into ninth. Wilson logged his second RBI of the contest. but this time by way of a bomb over the left field fence to give his team a 2-1 advantage. It was his first dinger of the year, the fourth of his career, and came at the expense of GC reliever Evan Etchison who had just stepped onto the mound.

But the Lancers had the last say and made the most of it. With runners on first and second, freshman Austin Carr picked the opportune time for his first collegiate homerun, in walk-off fashion, to clear the bases and send the Grace dugout into a frenzy.

Brent Turner, in two frames of relief, was charged with the loss having given up four hits, three runs and a walk while striking out one. Starting pitcher Camden Dice spent six innings on the bump during which he gave up four hits, one run and three walks while striking out four.

Alex McCutcheon pitched a dandy in the nightcap for a convincing 8-0 win. Not only did the senior southpaw toss the complete-game shutout, scattering five hits while striking out nine, he was also a force to be reckoned with at the plate where he racked up three RBI.

Today marked the third time this season the Lancers have been blanked.

The Foresters scored in four different frames which included putting up three runs in the third and doing the same in the seventh. Behind Jarrett Gray’s two triples and three RBI, HU finished with 14 hits. Dice went 3-for-4 at the plate while Ian McCutcheon, Daniel Lichty and Owen Young struck for two hits apiece.

Huntington (10-3, 3-3) wraps up its series with Grace tomorrow with another doubleheader at Logansport High School.