JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Lincoln baseball team hit three home runs in the second game of a home double-header on Saturday (March 22), but Lewis managed to win, 12-5. The Flyers also took the first game of the day, 10-4.

In the night cap, Lewis (15-5, 10-2 GLVC) pushed four runs across the plate in the top of the first, but Lincoln (2-22, 0-8 GLVC) got one back on Jayden Little's solo home run over the right field fence in the bottom half of the frame. The Flyers added three more runs in the top of the second, but Lincoln kept them scoreless afterwards until the fifth inning. 

Entering the bottom of the seventh facing an 11-1 deficit, Chase Morris hit his first career home run to give Lincoln its second score of the contest. That began a rally, as Andy Sreboski IV followed by reaching on a walk and Jayden Little singled to give the Blue Tigers a pair of base runners. That brought up Miguel Padron, who hit the third homer of the game, a three-run shot over the right field wall.

Little went 3-for-5 in Saturday's second game while Morris had two hits and Sreboski and Ty Ollison each had one. Little also led Lincoln defensively with 10 putouts, followed by Drake Davidson with eight and Padron with five. Sreboski and Brody Johns each turned three assists and Morris was next with two.

The opener featured strong pitching by both sides for the first half of the game, as the contest entered the fifth inning with Lewis holding on to a slim 1-0 lead. The Flyers scored three runs apiece in the remaining three innings, however, though the Blue Tigers got on the board with timely hitting in the bottom of the sixth.

Sreboski led the sixth frame off with a base hit and took second when Little was issued a walk. Padron drove in Sreboski for the first Lincoln run of the day on a single through the left side of the defense. After a Lewis pitching change, Ollison plated Little with a base hit of his own. Jacob Schulte got dinged with a pitch to load the bases, and a double play attempt that resulted in a throwing error later led to Padron and Ollison scoring.

Ed Noy had a strikeout as the game's opener and Padron and Ollison each finished with two hits while Felix Marquez had one. Little recorded six putouts, Padron finished with four and Schulte and Johns were next with three each. Morris and Isaiah Figueroa both had two assists.

Lincoln opens a four-game series at Illinois-Springfield next Friday (March 28) with a 1:00 p.m. CDT contest. The Blue Tigers and the Prairie Stars will play a double-header on Saturday (March 29) at 12:00 p.m. CDT before closing the series on Sunday (March 30) with a 12:00 p.m. CDT game.