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Mark Wagner, Little Rock Athletics
1
Western Illinois WIU 1-5
16
Winner Little Rock LR 5-1
Western Illinois WIU
1-5
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Final
16
Little Rock LR
5-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Western Illinois WIU 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 3
Little Rock LR 2 0 3 1 2 6 2 0 X 16 22 1

W: McKnight, Erik (1-0) L: Fochs, Chandler (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | WIU Athletic Communications

Leathernecks Fall In Series Finale To Little Rock

Seven extra-base hits helped Little Rock take game three.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK.- Western Illinois (1-5) dropped the series finale to the Little Rock Trojans (5-1) on Sunday (Feb. 27) 16-1. Little Rock had four players end the game with three hits to help them take all three games of the series.
 
An early error by Western Illinois put a runner on third with no nobody out for Little Rock in the first, and they scored him on a sacrifice fly with a foul out to left. A walk and wild pitch put another runner in scoring position, which the Trojans brought in on a two-out single to take a 2-0 lead.
 
After a single and double put runners on second in third in the bottom of the third, Little Rock used another sacrifice fly to bring in their third run. Another double and single later in the inning scored two more for the Trojans to take a 5-0 lead.
 
Little Rock added one run in the fourth with a groundout to shortstop to gain a six-run advantage. Little Rock began the bottom of the fifth with a solo home run to right to make the score 7-0. Little Rock brought in another run with two outs later in the fifth with a single to center to build an eight-run cushion.
 
Nick Mitchell led the sixth inning off with a single and gave Western Illinois a run by scoring on a wild pitch. Little Rock answered big with a six-run sixth to take a 14-1 lead. A pair of RBI doubles in the seventh by the Trojans added two more runs to bring their total to 16.
 
Dillon Sears and Kory Olsen had solid afternoons in the loss with a pair of hits each. Sears went 2-3, while Olsen went 2-4. Nick Mitchell went 1-4 in the leadoff spot with the lone run scored of the game for Western Illinois. Both Mitchell and Olsen continue to perform well for the Leathernecks as the top two hitters in the lineup. Mitchell is now batting .385 batting, and Olsen is batting .417. 
 
Western Illinois will be back in action on Tuesday (March 1) for a one-game matchup with in-state rival Southern Illinois.
 
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