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The HU baseball team ended their weekend series with Bethel (19-25, 13-15) by splitting with their visitors Saturday afternoon at Forest Glen.

Game one belonged to the Pilots 3-1. HU, uncharacteristically, managed just two hits with the first coming at the bat of Daniel Lichty who eventually scored the hosts’ lone run on Satchell Wilson’s RBI-groundout in the first.

Bethel’s Eli MacDonald launched a two-run shot over the left field fence in the top of the sixth for the go ahead. The Pilots would go on to add an insurance in the seventh as the game came and went without much commotion from the Foresters who could never muster much offense.

The loss was charged to Noah Arbuckle who tossed the first 6.1 innings and gave up five hits, three runs and a walk.

Huntington got things figured out in the nightcap to the tune of a convincing 9-2 win. Langston Ginder’s RBI-single in the first gave his team a 1-0 lead. The hosts never trailed after that as they added two runs in the second, two more in the third and then capped things off with two big homers in the fifth.

Matt Wolff posted his seventh dinger of the season, a two-run blast, in the fifth after which Nick Davit followed suit three batters later with his own two-run homer to effectively put the game out of reach.

Ginder finished with three hits to pace Frame’s crew while Wilson, Wolff and Owen Young added two base pokes apiece.

Tyler Papenbrock tossed a dandy by striking out seven while giving up just five hits, two runs and three walks for the complete-game win.

With this split, HU moves to 19-17 overall, 17-11 in league play. The Foresters, currently sitting fourth in the league standings, are at Goshen next weekend for a four-game series with the Maple Leafs.

 

Posted By: Joanne K Green