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Baseball splits doubleheader against Wis.-Platteville

The baseball team split their final games before Spring Break with a 6-0 loss and 9-2 win against Wisconsin-Plattevillle on Friday afternoon at Robert E. Smith Field.

The Panthers were not able to sustain any offense in a game one shutout.

Platteville jumped ahead 3-0 in the first inning and made the score 5-0 in the third inning.

The Pioneers added a run in the sixth inning.

The Panthers were led by two hits from George Schneider and Snyder Pennington. Rhett Pennington, Jacob Sutton, and Tanner Gerdes also had base hits.

Starting pitcher Dylan Boehm worked into the third inning, giving up five runs, four earned, on five hits and three walks over 2.1 innings.

Jaxen Gibson relieved Boehm and provided 1.2 scoreless innings.

Jacob Hammer pitched the fourth and fifth innings, permitting one run on three hits, and Terry Millikan worked a scoreless sixth inning.

In game two, Greenville jumped all over Platteville's starter, scoring eight runs over the first two innings.

Greenville scored three in the first inning, five in the second, and one in the third to build the 9-0 lead.

Drew Frey and Landon Mokris each drove in three runs for the Panthers, and Nathan Eye chipped in two RBI.

Schneider went 3-for-3 with a pair of runs scored. Frey, Mokris, Brexton Beard, and Gerdes each posted two hits.

Greenville's winning pitcher was Lucas Teel who pitched three scoreless innings in a prearranged pitching outing.

Elijah Kjellberg pitched one inning before leaving with an injury in the fifth inning, and Andrew Sowerwine managed to throw two scoreless innings of relief.

Gerdes closed the game on the mound with a scoreless inning featuring two strikeouts.

The Panthers (3-5) will compete next week in Florida. On Monday, they play SUNY-Oneonta at 8:45 a.m. CT, followed by a game against Cornell (Iowa) at 12:15 pm CT.

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