MIDWAY, Ky. - The Indiana University Kokomo baseball team dropped both games of Thursday's doubleheader at RSC foe Midway University. The Cougars lost game one 3-1 and game two 10-7.

Game One Offensively

• IU Kokomo scored their lone run of the game in the top of the first for a 1-0 lead, as Riley Garczynski singled to lead off the game before scoring on a Noah Hurlock single through the left side.
• Midway managed to tie the game at one in the fourth with a walk and a single.
• The Eagles would score the game-winning runs in the sixth on two hits and one IUK error. Midway would hold on to close out a 3-1 series opening win.
• Jarod Gillespie, Tucker Platt, Dylan Steele, and Jonathan Latham each had a hit for the Cougars as well.

Game One Pitching

• Lucas Letsinger took the loss to fall to 5-3 on the season. Letsinger allowed three runs (two earned) on just three hits while walking three and striking out six in six innings of work.
• Ethan Leslie tossed the seventh and eighth for IU Kokomo, allowing no runs on two hits with no walks and three strikeouts.

Game Two Offensively

• Just as they did in game one, the Cougars scored in the first for an early lead. Garczynski and Nolan Bowser singled to open the game before Garczynski scored on a throwing error and Bowser scored on a bases-loaded HBP for a 2-0 IUK lead.
• Midway responded immediately with three runs on three hits and one IUK error to take a 3-2 lead after an inning.
• The Cougars would tie it up in the second, as Garczynski singled and scored on a Bowser double down the left field line,
• IU Kokomo regained the lead in the third, scoring three runs on one hit and one Midway error. Platt doubled to lead off the inning and Luke Barnes followed with a walk. Both would score an unearned run on a throwing error. Gavin Smith, pinch-running for Dylan Janke, scored on a wild pitch for a 6-3 IUK lead.
• The Eagles exploded for six runs on five hits and one Cougar error in the fourth, taking a 9-6 lead.
• Midway manufactured their final run of the game in the fifth to extend their lead to 10-6 with two innings to play.
• The Cougars needed four in the seventh to extend the game, but were only able to score one. Matt Iacobucci singled through the left side and scored on a Thomas Obergfell double to left center. Midway would close out the 10-7 game two win.

Game Two Pitching

• Ben Harris got the start, going three innings and allowing six earned runs on six hits and two walks while striking out three.
• Connor Hurt and Brandon Bultemeier combined to toss the fourth with each giving up one earned run.
• Garrison Brege tossed the fifth and sixth, allowing an unearned run on four hits and a walk while striking out one.

The Cougars will return to Midway Monday for the series finale.

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