QUINCY, Ill. - The bats were red hot on Sunday but in the end it was Quincy squeaking out with a 14-13 win over Davenport to take three of four in the weekend series. Davenport is now 3-4 overall while Quincy is 3-1.
Both teams would finish with 13 hits and scoring happened 13 of the 17 half innings. There was at least one run scored in every inning. The Panthers started off with three runs in the top of the first off starter Kobe Essien. Essien faced five batters and recorded just one out before three runs scored. He walked three and also had a wild pitch and two balks.
Travis Harvey drove in two runs with a single to right and later scored on a wild pitch. Quincy answered right back with three runs in the bottom of the first off
James Kohl for the Panthers.Â
DU regained a 6-3 lead in the second inning as
Noah Marcoux launched a three-run homer to right scoring
Carson Eby and
Christian Petre. Once again, Quincy tied it up with three runs of their own in the second inning as Kohl gave way to
Zach Haefer. The Hawks added two runs in each of the next three innings to take a 12-7 lead. Michael Nielsen hit a two-run homer in the fourth and
Nolan Anspaugh also hit a solo home run in the top half of the fourth.
Anspaugh homered again in the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 12-8.
Ben Mets followed that with a two-run homer in the seventh inning to make it 12-10. Quincy added two more runs in the seventh inning to increase their lead to 14-10.
Nolan Bryant homered in the eighth inning to make it 14-11. The Panthers made things tight in the ninth inning as Petre led off with a single and Anspaugh was hit by a pitch with one out. After a wild pitch moved both runners up, Bryant had a groundout to score the 12th run in Petre and Anspaugh moved to third. Anspaugh scored the 13th run on another wild pitch with two outs and Marcoux grounded out to end the game.
Anspaugh finished 2-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI on homers. Bryant drove in two runs, walked twice and scored twice. Marcoux drove in three runs and scored twice. Harvey went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI. Petre went 2-for-5 with two runs scored. Harvey and Mets also stole a base.
Max Swan (0-1) took the loss in relief throwing 0.2 innings and allowed two earned runs.