The last 10 days of the month of March have not been kind to the Christian County Colonels. The Colonels traveled back to Bowling Green Saturday and dropped a pair of games to Bowling Green and Central Hardin.
In the opening game of the day, the Colonels generated the same number of hits as did the Bowling Green Purples but were not quite as efficient as the Purples in making use of those hits as Bowling Green took a 5-1 win.
The Purples took a 2-0 lead with single runs in the bottom of the first and third innings.
Christian County cut the lead in half in the top of the 4th inning when Sebastian Dazey singled to drive in Carter Sholar and cut the Bowling Green lead to 2-1. But that would be the offense for the game for the Colonels.
In the bottom half of the inning, the Purples loaded the bases on a hit batter, an error, and a single. Bowling Green the scored on a hit batter and a fielder’s choice to push the lead back out to 4-1. Bowling Green added an insurance run in the bottom of the 6th to run the lead out to 5-1.
Preston Phan led the Colonels going 2-3. Sebastian Dazey was 1-3 and drove in the only run of the game for the Colonels.
Eddie Davis took the loss on the mound for Christian County. He went six innings, giving up 5 runs, 3 of them earned, and walked two.
The second game of the day saw the Colonels fall behind 6-2 and then rally to within one before dropping their seventh straight game with a 6-5 loss to Central Hardin.
Christian County got off to a good start against the Bruins, plating two runs in the top of the first inning. Carter Sholar grounded out, scoring Prince Northington to make it 1-0. Gage Montes then scored on a passed ball to make it 2-0.
Central Hardin responded by scoring in each of its first four at-bats, one run in the first and second, three in the third, and one more in the fourth to take a 6-2 lead.
The Colonels scored three runs in the top of the 6th, two on a Bruin error and one on an RBI single from Blake Boehman to cut the lead to 6-5. A strikeout ended the rally and the Colonels then went quietly in the seventh as the Bruins took the one-run win.
Christian County scored the five runs on just three hits, the hits coming from Aiden Lewis, Blake Boehman, and Gage Montes. Montes also had two runs scored. Sebastian Dazey finished the game with two RBIs.
Aiden Lewis got the start for the Colonels and was charged with the loss. He went 2 1/3-innings, giving up 5 runs, 4 of them earned, on just two hits, striking out two while walking four.
