Baseball returns to SLIAC championship game
The baseball team advanced to the championship game of the SLIAC tournament for the fourth straight year with two wins. On Friday, the Panthers defeated Westminster 18-9 in game one, followed by a 4-0 shutout over Spalding to earn a date with Webster on Saturday.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 21 | 0 |
| Westminster (Mo.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| Spalding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Team Stats
Westminster (Mo.)
Spalding
GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The baseball team advanced to the championship game of the SLIAC tournament for the fourth straight year with two wins. On Friday, the Panthers defeated Westminster 18-9 in game one, followed by a 4-0 shutout over Spalding to earn a date with Webster on Saturday.
Sam Alender earned the win in the Westminster game with six innings pitched. He gave up three earned runs.
Westminster mounted a late rally, but the Panthers advantage was too much to overcome.
Adam Lamb paced the Panthers with a 4-for-6 outing at the plate. Austin Marsh and Sam Hodges each added three hits.
Game two saw a brilliant pitching outing from Jonah Moore, who held the SLIAC's top hitting team to just four hits and a walk, in his first career shutout of nine innings.
Greenville got a run in the second and third innings to take a 2-0 lead. In the seventh, the Panthers scored twice.
Marsh and Bryce Pearce had two hits apiece.
The Panthers (22-19) play Webster on Saturday at 5 p.m.