Last Wednesday, it was a sixth-run fifth inning against Sikeston in a 9-4 loss. Today it was a five-run sixth that put the game out of reach in a 9-3 defeat to class 5 Poplar Bluff.
The Mules scored two in the second and one each in the third and fifth innings to take a 4-0 lead. It was the sixth however, that put the nails in The Eagle coffin. Poplar Bluff was able to five runs on only one hit. However they also received three walks, a hit batter, a sac fly and a wild pitch and Oran was never able to recover.
The Eagles squandered a golden opportunity to cut into the Mule lead in the fifth inning. Drew Reischman walked to lead off Clay Sauceda doubled to center to move Reishman to third with none out. Two strikeouts and a ground out followed and the two runners were left stranded.
Oran made some noise in the bottom of the seventh which made the Mules sixth inning look even bigger.
In that final frame Hunter Schlosser led off with a full-count double to left. Reischman then hit a ground ball to third. After the fielder threw the ball to first, Schlosser headed to third and in an attempt to get him there, the first baseman left the base before the out was recorded and both were safe. Sauceda then slammed the first pitch he saw beyond the left field fence for a three run homer.
Sauceda, who was two for three with three RBIs, was named the Bank of Advance star of the game.
Schlosser took the loss, falling to 4-3. He went five and one-third innings and gave up eight runs, seven earned, on only five hits. He walked six and struck out three. Layne Johnson threw the final inning and two-thirds. He gave up one earned run on one hit.
Besides Sauceda and Schlosser, Preston Hahn had the only other Eagle hit, a one-out single in the first inning.
Oran, now 13-5, will take host the class four Kennett Indians tomorrow at 4 pm in their final regular season game.
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