The Hopkinsville baseball team collected eight base-hits off McCracken County starter Jacob Ehling on Thursday night, but failed to turn those hits into runs and committed five errors on the way to a 5-1 loss to the visiting Mustangs.
The Tigers drop their fourth-straight to stand at 17-11 with a trip to Union County on Friday to close-out the regular season. McCracken’s third-straight win and sixteenth in seventeen games was coach Geno Miller’s 500th, with the Mustangs improving to 25-7 overall.
Hoptown started brightly in the bottom of the first, with Layne Jorgensen and John Duvall singling before Aaron Crosby reached on a line drive to bring in a run. But that would be the last time the Tigers crossed the plate, with Ehling scattering five hits and striking-out seven the rest of the way to earn the win.
The Mustangs tied the game in the top of the second, took the lead with two runs in the third and finished things off with a run in each of the fourth and sixth for the final score.
Robert Justus took the loss for the Tigers, lasting 4.0 innings while allowing four runs, two earned, with two walks and two strikeouts. Jacob Dilday worked the final three innings, allowing a single run on four hits with a walk.
Jorgensen, Duvall and Ryan Myers each had two hits for the Tigers.
