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Bluejay Baseball Team Splits Pair With Knox
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The Elmhurst College baseball team moved to 2-5 on the season after splitting a doubleheader with Knox College at the Russmatt Tournament in Arizona. Elmhurst dropped game one 12-8 but bounced back to sink Knox 10-7 in game two.
KNOX 12, ELMHURST 8 (Game One) - Elmhurst slipped to 1-5 on the season following a 12-8 loss to Knox.
Jim Deschamps (Glenview/Glenbrook South) drove in a pair of runs for the Bluejays while Brett Lilley (Rochester Hills, Mich./H.S.) finished 3-for-5 with a double.
Patrick Saylor (Cicero/Nazareth Academy) took the loss for Elmhurst, allowing eight earned runs in four innings.
ELMHURST 10, KNOX 7 (Game Two) - The Bluejays snapped their three-game skid with a 10-7 win over Knox.
Tom Rhein (Worth/Brother Rice), Pat Meginniss (Elgin/H.S.) and Scott Perkinson (Elk Grove/Elk Grove Village) finished with three hits apiece to lead the Bluejays' offense. Meginniss drove in three runs while Rhein and Deschamps each drove in a pair.
Elmhurst banged out 17 hits in the contest.
Scott Jones (Island Lake/Wauconda) earned the win in relief, while Cyrus Rogers (Wheaton/Harper College) notched a save.
The Bluejays will play a doubleheader with Middlebury College on Monday, March 24, in Mesa, Ariz.
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