DAVENPORT 15, PARKSIDE 6
DAVENPORT 18, PARKSIDE 4
 
The Parkside Baseball team dropped both games on Sunday against the Davenport Panthers who's bats were hot in both games at Historic Simmons Field in Kenosha, Wis. The Rangers tried to battle back late in both games but they put themselves in too big of a hole early in each game.
 
GAME 1 RECAP
Davenport got off to an early lead with one run scoring on a passed ball in the top of the first. But the Rangers answered back with a run scoring on a groundout by sophomore Ryan Brouch. The Panthers added on eight more runs in the second to take a 9-1 lead early in the seven-inning game. Home runs in each the third and the fourth innings followed by another run in the fifth inning extended the lead to 15-1. The Rangers first hit came in the fifth by senior Hunter Weddel as he also scored on a sacrifice fly by Brouch. Redshirt sophomore Caleb Badgley scored on a wild pitch to cut the lead to 5-3. Senior Kurt Mlachnik singled and scored a run in the top of the sixth. Junior Reece Homan hit a home run in the bottom of the seventh but the Rangers came up just short in a 15-6 loss.
Junior Caden Bronkhorst got the start and threw for four innings, allowing 14 earned runs on nine hits and took the loss. Junior Sean Sodaro closed the final three innings and allowed one run on one hit.
 
GAME 2 RECAP
The Panthers got off to a hot start once again in game two, scoring one run in the first, two in the second, and three in the third; Panthers lead 6-0 after three. Parkside's Weddel got his second hit of the day in the second at bat of the day. Davenport added two runs in the seventh and 10 more in the eighth to extend their lead to 18-0. The Ranger bats woke up in the eighth when senior Dominic Esposito hit a two-RBI single and senior Bryce Brogni scored on a wild pitch, making the score 18-3. Weddel added his second single of the game in the bottom of the ninth, scoring one final run for the Rangers.

Senior Nicholas Schouten started the game and pitched 6.2 innings, allowing seven runs on 13 hits. Sophomore Andrew Harris came in relief for two-thirds of an inning, six earned runs. Junior Andrew Sumner finished the final 1.2 innings allowing no runs on four hits.
 
LOOK AHEAD
The Rangers Baseball team will finish the series against Davenport on Monday with a doubleheader starting at 11 A.M at Historic Simmons Field in Kenosha, Wis.