Sports editor
After a six-game stretch that saw the Marion baseball team win its first game of the season and go 3-3 in the process, the Warriors lost their last four games of the season this past week to finish 3-17.
The slate is wiped clean starting Monday with the Hillsboro regional.
However, MHS will likely be a seven or eight seed in the eight-team, single-elimination tournament.
The regional will include Marion, Beloit, Bennington/Tescott, Ellsworth, SE of Saline, Herington, and Hillsboro.
Seeds will be determined later today (Wednesday).
Lyons and Hillsboro
Heading into a May 5 doubleheader at Lyons, the Warriors were playing their best baseball of the season.
However, they ran into a strong Lyons pitching staff that held them to three runs in two games.
Marion managed just five hits in a 7-0 loss in game one. Three were singles from Wil Case, while the other two were a double and single from Isaac Hett.
Cole Lewman took the loss on the mound, pitching five innings while allowing six hits and seven runs. Marshall Ragland pitched a scoreless sixth.
Game two got off to a good start for MHS with two runs in the top of the first inning.
The Lions had other ideas, scoring five runs in the bottom of the inning off starter Brian Fruechting.
Ragland came in and pitched four scoreless innings, scattering four hits while striking out four.
Case added three more hits and Colton Olsen was 2-for-3, but the Warriors eventually fell, 8-3.
Adam Maag continued his hot-hitting, going 1-for-3 with his 10th RBI of the season.
Case was at it again at the plate for Marion in a Friday doubleheader at Hillsboro, going 3-for-5 with three RBIs in the games, but Marion lost 14-1 and 15-5.
The Trojans scored runs in the first four innings of game one, including six in the first.
Olsen took the loss on the mound for Marion.
Case had the lone RBI and Dylan Seacat was 2-for-2.
The Warriors tried to stay in the game during the nightcap, scoring two runs in the second. However, heading into the third inning it was 10-2 Hillsboro.
Maag had a hit and his 11th RBI, while Olsen, Lewman, and Case each had at least one RBI.
Case took the loss on the mound. He did however raise his average to .455 on the season with 13 RBIs.
Fruechting ended the season as the top Warrior RBI-man with 17 while hitting .377.
Maag finished as the team’s leading hitter with a .339 average.