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Tabor?s road to baseball recovery stretched four more games in the
wrong direction last week with doubleheader losses at home to Bethany
on Wednesday and Friends on Saturday. The four losses lengthened the
Bluejays? streak to 16 losses.
Bethany?Trailing by only a run going into the seventh and final inning
of the opener, the Bluejays gave up four runs in a 7-2 heartbreaker.
The Swedes prevailed easily in the nightcap, 14-2.
In the first game, Hillsboro freshman Austin Frantz (0-3) held Bethany
in check through five innings, giving up three runs on six hits. He
walked one, struck out one and hit four batters.
Reliever Danny Douglass pitched a perfect sixth inning, but the gate
opened in the seventh with the help of two Bluejay errors and four
Bethany hits.
Tabor managed only three hits in the game, and never more than one in
the same inning.
In the second game, Bethany led 5-0 lead before Chris Haynes hit a
two-run homer to give the Bluejays some hope. But the Swedes pulled
away with three runs in fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Freshman Bryan Robert (1-6) started on the mound for Tabor and gave up
eight runs in five innings of work. Mike Feltman, a sophomore,
surrendered six more runs in two innings of relief.
Friends?The Bluejays came back from an 8-0 whitewash in the first game
to give the Falcons some tough competition before falling 9-4 in the
nightcap.
In the first game, the Bluejays were overpowered by the arm of Dennis
Dreezen, who throttled the Bluejays on five hits. He was helped by
three double plays.
Bluejay ace Randy Ables (4-7), hanging tough despite a tender
shoulder, allowed only three runs on two hits in three and one-third
innings, but walked seven hitters.
The Falcons broke the game open with four runs on only two hits in the
fourth inning.
In the second game, Friends jumped ahead with four runs in the first
inning off Danny Douglass (2-5). Tabor came back with two runs on
singles by Chris Haynes and Jerrod Ryherd and a two-run double by Tim
Carroll to make it 4-2.
Tabor closed the gap to two runs once again, 6-4, with a pair of
scores in the bottom of the fourth when Carroll singled, Randy Ables
doubles and Ash Jones singled.
Friends scored three more runs in the fifth to establish the final
margin of victory.
With the losses, Tabor?s record falls to 8-27. The Jays were scheduled
to play Kansas Wesleyan on the road yesterday, then will close their
regular season with a pair of home game
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