Eagles Fall To Warriors

Sullivan fell to St. Charles West 4-0 on Saturday at Lindenwood University.

The Eagles were coming back from a tough loss at St. Clair.

The game started and after two outs, Tyler Hopen found himself on first base. Dayton Skaggs was then drilled by the pitch but the Eagles went down without a score.

Drake Gawer was the starting pitcher but gave up a hit to the Warriors leadoff man.

Gavin Schmidt then scooped up the out, but the Warriors scored on a line drive to the outfield.

Sullivan was sat down by the Warriors but the Eagles returned the favor with their first two outs.

St. Charles West landed on first but Sullivan got out of the inning. The last out was recorded when Lucas Parsons dove to catch the ball, but collided with Cambrian Koch and still made the play in spectacular fashion.

The weather was very windy on Saturday and it showed. Seth Valley rocketed a ball to the outfield but the wind killed the momentum of the ball and he was out.

Schmidt was the next batter and he was walked but St. Charles West recorded the next two outs.

In the bottom of the third, St. Charles West added more scores. After an out, the Warriors were on base. Another batter was struck by the ball and there were two men on.

Barret Disselhorst scored an RBI on his hit. The Eagles missed a call when an ump said that Skaggs was off the base on an out. The now-flustered Eagles gave up another run due to confusion. On one hit and two errors, the Warriors led 4-0.

Trey Behrens found himself on base but was stranded, but the Eagles sat down the Warriors’  three batters at their next at bat. Sullivan used that motivation during their next at bat. Parsons drew a walk. Kaiden Smith came in as a courtesy runner for Parsons and recorded two stolen bases back to back.

Head Coach Ian Whitson made a pitching change and brought in Koch for some relief on the mound. Koch struck out the leadoff batter and Sullivan held off the Warriors from scoring again the rest of the game.

Gawer finished the game with two strikeouts. The only two hits were by Parsons and Behrens.