NASHVILLE - Lipscomb baseball dropped the middle game of their weekend series with Eastern Kentucky at home, falling 7-5 to the Colonels Saturday to force a rubber game on Sunday to decide the series.
The Colonels connected on three homers against the Bisons, accounting for four of their seven runs. Meanwhile, Lipscomb finished with ten hits, leaving 13 runners on bases in the loss.
A RBI triple in the first inning gave the Colonels the lead in the first, but a solo jack from Alex Vergara evened the score in the bottom half.
Eastern Kentucky scored a run in each of the following four innings, including a two-spot in the third to take a 6-1 lead before Lipscomb offense could respond.
Trace Willhoite put another run on the board for the Bisons on a solo homer to left field, his 13th of the year. Lipscomb added two more runs in the sixth on an RBI single from David Coppedge and then a sacrifice fly from Adam Fallon to cut the Colonels' lead to two runs.
EKU added an insurance run in the seventh with their third home run of the day to take a three-run lead.
Lipscomb scored again on a bases-loaded walk in the eighth but couldn't come up with any more runs in the eighth and ninth frames, resulting in a 7-5 loss at Ken Dugan Field.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Trace Willhoite is one RBI away from becoming Lipscomb's all-time leader in the D-I era. Willhoite already holds the home run crown for the program.
- In game two of the series, Willhoite and Coppedge were the two multi-hit Bison.
- Vergara hit his team-leading 14th home run of the year in the first inning on the first pitch he saw.
UP NEXT
The Bisons will get one more shot at the series with the Colonels at Ken Dugan Field tomorrow, Sunday, April 21, at 1 p.m. CT. For more information on Bisons Baseball, visit lipscombsports.com or follow the team's social media accounts (@lipscombbaseball on IG and @BisonBaseball on X).
