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3-25 BB recap
Kalao Ebalo
17
Winner Franklin FRANKLIN 10-6
4
Defiance DEFIANCE 2-10
Winner
Franklin FRANKLIN
10-6
17
Final
4
Defiance DEFIANCE
2-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Franklin FRANKLIN 0 0 0 2 3 12 0 17 16 1
Defiance DEFIANCE 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 4 12 4

W: Harmon, Luke (4-1) L: G. Bragg (0-2)

17
Winner Franklin FRANKLIN 11-6
0
Defiance DEFIANCE 2-11
Winner
Franklin FRANKLIN
11-6
17
Final
0
Defiance DEFIANCE
2-11
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Franklin FRANKLIN 1 1 8 5 2 0 0 17 9 0
Defiance DEFIANCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2

W: DeAtley, Jordan (2-0) L: A. Gipson (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

RECAP | Grizzlies Dominate Yellow Jackets, Sweep Monday Twin Bill


DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Franklin College baseball team bounced back from a tough start to conference play in a big way, blowing out the Defiance Yellow Jackets across two Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) games on Monday (Mar. 25) afternoon. 

The Grizzlies (11-6, 2-2 HCAC) put up 34 runs across the two games, hammering the Yellow Jackets (2-11, 0-4 HCAC) in a pair of seven-inning affairs by scores of 17-4 and 17-0.

Game One: Franklin 17 – Defiance 4 (7 inn.)
Franklin trailed by a run after three innings but took the lead for good in the fourth on the back of a Garrett DeHart sac fly and an RBI single from Andrew Wallace. Tysen Lipscomb brought home a run with a single in the fifth and scored on a double steal attempt in the same inning, but two Yellow Jacket runs in the bottom of the inning made it 5-3 with four innings to go. 

Any doubts about the game were put to rest in the sixth, as Franklin went supernova at the plate and scored 12 runs to blow the game open. Five different players had RBI hits in the inning with the big blast coming off the bat of Anthony Smith and his first career grand slam. 

Smith and Lipscomb drove in four runs each with AJ Sanders scoring four times from the leadoff spot. Sanders, Lipscomb and Smith all had three hits each to lead the offense. 

Luke Harmon (4-1) earned the win in his first conference start, giving up two earned runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts over five innings of work. 

Game Two: Franklin 17 – Defiance 0 (7 inn.)
Wallace drove in the game's first run with a single in the first and an error in the second allowed Franklin to stretch their lead to 2-0. Any doubts about the second game were put to rest over the next two innings, as Franklin scored eight in the third and five more in the fourth.

The Grizzlies relied on their patience in game two, drawing 11 walks as a team. Luke Willmann belted his first home run of the year and drove in three runs while DeHart, Sean Sullivan and Colby Reed all brought home two runs. 

Dylan Sprong (3-2) struck out five and walked one over three hitless innings in starting duties. Jordan DeAtley, Dylan Dye, Mitch Behrle and Maddox Manes all worked an inning in relief. 

Up Next
Franklin opens a three-game road series against the Manchester Spartans with a double-header set for Friday (Mar. 29) afternoon. First pitch is set for noon. 
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