Trailblazers fall in weekend finale to No. 12 Kellogg C.C.

VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University baseball team ended a very productive weekend on a bad note Sunday morning at Jerry Blemker Field.

The Blazers hosted a rematch against the No. 12-ranked Kellogg Community College Bruins and came up on the bad end of some big innings to fall 26-8 to end the weekend.

VU got off to a fast start Sunday morning, breaking open the scoring in the bottom of the first with an RBI single by redshirt freshman Holden Clifton (Louisville, Ill.) and a two RBI single by freshman Nate Montgomery (Lexington, Ind.).

Kellogg would answer back with a run in the second and another run in the third to cut the VU lead to one before breaking the game open in the fourth with a massive 10-run inning to take a 12-3 lead.

The Bruins weren’t done there though as Kellogg followed that inning with an eight-run fifth to take a 20-3 lead.

Vincennes would get a run back in the bottom of the fifth after a leadoff walk by sophomore Keegan Schlotterbeck (Centerville, Ind.), a single by freshman Reed Drabant (Columbia, Ill.) and another walk by freshman Noble Johnson (Terre Haute, Ind.) to load the bases.

Schlotterbeck would come in to score on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Brandon Juarez (Evansville, Ind.) to cut the deficit to 20-4.

Kellogg would score six in the sixth before VU again refused to give in in the bottom half of the inning starting with back-to-back singles by freshman Brody Fessel (DePauw, Ind.) and sophomore Dylan Ecken (Louisville, Ky.), followed by a walk by freshman Damon Kay (Spencer, Ind.) and a bases loaded hit by pitch by freshman Brody Shaw (Cory, Ind.).

Reed Drabant would then clear the bases with a three-RBI triple, giving him two hits in back-to-back innings and making the score 26-8.

This would be as close as the Vincennes comeback attempt would get however as the Bruins finished out the weekend with a 26-8 victory over the Trailblazers.

“Obviously when you go 3-1 on the weekend it’s a positive thing,” VU Head Baseball Coach Chris Barney said. “The bad thing is not playing your best baseball in the last game of the weekend. It is what it is today but going 3-1 on the weekend with three quality wins over Kellogg, Lincoln Trail and Glen Oaks that’s a real positive.”

“Today was just one of those days,” Barney added. “A lot of things fell for them, not a lot for us. We didn’t do a very good job of swinging it and had three errors. We were competitive for about three or four innings and then the bullpen kind of blew up today.”