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BOX SCORE GAME 1
BOX SCORE GAME 2
HAYS, Kan. - The Fort Hays baseball team dropped a pair of games to Adams State Sunday afternoon at Larks Park, ultimately splitting the season-opening series 2-2. The Grizzlies edged out their first win of the season with a 2-1 victory in the opener before pulling away with a 10-3 victory in the second contest.
Game 1: Adams State 2, Fort Hays State 1
Tiger starter Trevor Baugh pitched well in the first game of the day, retiring Adams State in order four times. The senior righty completed 5.1 innings, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out six batters.
Fort Hays State had chances to strike on offense, with FHSU managing a pair of baserunners in each of the first three innings. But ASU starter Phil Carter was able to work out of the jam each time, keeping the Tigers scoreless.
The Grizzlies, on the other hand, only managed hits in one of the first four innings but were able to string together four hits to create a pair of runs in the top of the third.
Fort Hays State closed within one in the bottom of the sixth when Elliott Herrmann worked a leadoff walk. The senior first baseman later came in to score on a triple to right off the bat of Tony Moore. With the tying run 90 feet away, Carter escaped another jam before ASU reliever Ty Addington came on to retire the side in order in the seventh to pick up the save.
Both teams totaled six hits in the game, with ASU stranding five runners on base and FHSU leaving seven.
Game 2: Adams State 10, Fort Hays State 3
Righty Paul Panduro made his Tiger debut in the final matchup of the weekend, working around two walks and one double to leave the bases loaded in the top of the first. FHSU then took the lead in the home half of the inning when Herrmann drove in Isaiah Ural with a sacrifice fly to deep right field.
Panduro struck out a pair in the second before allowing two runners to reach in the third, prompting the Tigers to go to the bullpen in Spencer Maley. Adams State took the lead for good three batters later with a grand slam to left field, giving the Grizzlies a 4-1 lead.
Adams State added two more runs in the top of the sixth off Landyn Sterling before Herrmann and Trey DeGarmo crushed back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the frame, allowing the Tigers to claw within 6-3.The visitors added another run in the top of the eighth before pushing across three more insurance runs in the top of the ninth. Fort Hays State was outhit in the finale, 10-3.
UP NEXT
Fort Hays State will return to action next weekend when the Tigers host East Central in another four-game, non-conference series. The teams will battle in a pair of doubleheaders beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday.