Chargers take loss to Highland
LAFAYETTE — In a final tune-up before they head to Florida for the annual RussMatt Invitational, the Marian University Ancilla Baseball team scheduled a round-robin with Highland Community College out of Illinois and the Milwaukee Area Technical College out of Wisconsin at Loeb Stadium in Lafayette, Indiana.
The late-weekend series is spread across Sunday, Feb. 23, and Monday, Feb. 24. Sunday, the Chargers had just one game scheduled for themselves — a 7-inning evening contest against Highland — and despite a big 7-run 4th inning, the Chargers couldn’t hold on and ultimately fell, 9-7.
As for the fireworks, with one out in the 4th inning with MUAC plating seven runs in the inning.
Unfortunately, the Chargers were snake-bitten by walks and errors, especially in the 5-run 2nd inning and the 2-run 4th inning for Highland. All-in-all, the Cougars were able to utilize nine walks and three errors to manufacture nine runs of their own on just five hits, even though they struck out nine times in six trips to the plate.
Sophomore Blaze Schultz (0-1) was credited with the loss for the Chargers, as he appeared in relief, however, he, freshman starter Evan Lanphier, and Freshman reliever Dylan Ford combined for those nine strikeouts and allowed just four earned runs over their six innings pitched. Through three games, Charger pitchers have shown electric stuff, striking out 28 batters in just 22.2 innings of work.
Before their trip to the South at the end of the week, Marian Ancilla will finish up this weekend series today with a 2 p.m. game against the same Highland team then, they will turn around and play the Milwaukee Tech Stormers at 5:00 p.m. this evening. Both games will again take place at Loeb Stadium in Lafayette, Indiana.
