Tabor’s loss skid grows to 16 games

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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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