Vincennes baseball falls in conference doubleheader at Parkland College

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Vincennes University baseball team closed out their road Mid-West Athletic Conference (MWAC) season with a doubleheader at Parkland College Monday afternoon.

The Trailblazers fell behind early in both games and were unable to recover as the Cobras took game one of the day 15-4 and game two 10-2.

Game one of the day got off to a shaky start for the Blazers as Parkland put up a big five-run inning in the second and tacked on another run in the third to take an early 6-0 lead.

Vincennes would get on the scoreboard in the fourth after four straight walks drove in VU’s first run of the game, followed by a fielder’s choice by freshman Ethan Burdette (Linton, Ind.) to drive in a second run.

Parkland would grow their lead back with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning before Vincennes would responded with another two run inning in the fifth.

Sophomore Peyton Lane (New Paris, Ohio) led off the inning with a walk and would later score on a wild pitch.

Sophomore Connor VanLannen (Clinton, Ind.) later walked in the inning and was driven in on an RBI single by sophomore Dale Coy (Evansville, Ind.).

Parkland would grab the momentum back in the bottom of the fifth with a three-run inning and take game one in walk-off fashion in the sixth with another four runs, giving the Cobras the 15-4 win.

Freshman Dawson Blaylock (Eaton, Ohio) got the start on the mound in game one of the day, throwing three and two-thirds innings, allowing eight runs on 10 hits and striking out two.

Sophomore Ryan Bartley (Tuscola, Ill.) worked two-thirds of an inning out of the bullpen and allowed two runs, while striking out one.

Freshman Caleb Moore (Wentzville, Mo.) threw the remaining one and one-third innings, allowing five runs on four hits and striking out one.

“Game one of the day we gave up five runs in the third and battled our way back into the game, but not enough,” VU Head Baseball Coach Chris Barney said. “We’ve got to play better defense, bottom line. Today we didn’t do it. We had about five or six errors in the game, we had missed opportunities to turn a double play, we had some pick off plays where we had guys out but we just didn’t catch the ball. We’ve just got to do a better job of catching the baseball and recording outs.”