GREENVILLE, Ill. - The baseball team hosted a doubleheader against Central (Iowa), and the teams split the two games. Greenville won game one 8-7, and Central earned a 15-9 win in game two.

The Panthers slipped behind 2-0 after the first inning of game one, but a three-run home run by Landon Mokris in the second inning gave the Panthers the lead.

Braden Maltbie pitched seven effective innings, only allowing two runs on two hits and striking out 10.

Maltbie left the game with hopes of earning his first win of the season, but the Dutch scored five runs in the top of the eighth to tie the game, and it took an RBI double from Nathan Eye in the bottom of the eighth to give GU the lead.

Jacob Hammer pitched two innings to collect the win.

Outfielder Brexton Beard made his season debut with a 3-for-5 hitting performance, and Rhett Pennington and Mokris each posted two hits.

Snyder Pennington and R. Pennington both scored a pair of runs.

Game two saw Central score in their first six innings at bat, and Greenville tallied runs in their first three innings in a 15-9 slugfest.

Greenville's Mokris went 2-for-5 with one run scored and three RBI while R. Pennington tallied a 1-for-3 appearance at the plate with three RBI.

Nathan Eye went 1-for-5 with one run and two RBI, and Zack McClease posted a 2-for-5 hitting line with a run scored and one RBI.

Cade Buehnerkemper became the Panthers victim on the mound, allowing 11 runs, five earned, on nine hits over 4.1 innings. He received the loss.

Stephen Hardwick pitched a solid final three innings, only walking one and giving up one hit with two strikeouts.

The Panthers (2-4) will next host Loras on Friday and Saturday, March 2-3, in a three game series.