Baseball Drops Pair to Olivet

The Stockbridge baseball team returned to the field after a long spring break lay-off and struggled as the Panthers dropped a pair of games to Olivet 11-2 and 6-3 Thursday.

The Panthers had trouble getting anything going offensively in the opener with Drew Philipp collecting the only two hits in the game for Stockbridge.

In spite of the offensive struggles the Panthers scored a pair of runs in the third to cut the Eagles lead to 3-2, but Olivet answered with a run in the bottom of the third and four in the 4th to pull away for the win.

Philipp took the loss on the mound striking out two and allowing six hits in four innings of work. He did not get a lot of help behind him with the Panther defense committing seven errors, leading to six unearned runs.

The Panthers took a 1-0 lead in third of the second game on a sacrifice fly by Zach Fletcher that scored Noah Hughes.

Olivet scored three in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead, but the Panthers battled back in the fifth with a pair of runs to tie it at 3-3. Philipp singled to score to score Jack McLennan to make it 3-2 and scored on a two-out RBI single by Aidan Trost to tie the game at three.

The Eagles retook the lead in the sixth with three runs and the Panthers went out in order in the seventh to end the game.

Philipp and Trost each collected a pair of hits and an RBI to lead the offense. Andrew Davis added two hits and Dalton Satkowiak one hit for the Panthers. Trost and Davis combined for eight strikeouts and allowed eight hits on the mound for Stockbridge.

The Panthers return to action Monday when they host arch-rival Leslie at 4:00 PM.