The Lincoln Land Baseball Loggers (3-1) opened their spring break trip by splitting a doubleheader with the ASA College (Brooklyn) Avengers (3-5), winning game one 10-5 and losing their first game of the season 8-2 in the nightcap.
 

Freshman Jack Staten toed the rubber for the Loggers in game one to make his collegiate debut.  Staten was solid through his four innings of work, allowing two unearned runs on four hits and two walks, he also struck out three.
 
Lincoln Land trailed 1-0 early but knotted the score in the top of the third.  Sam Anderson (1-4, RBI) scored the Loggers first run on Xavier Collier's (1-1, RBI) sacrifice fly after he singled to center, advanced to second on a balk, and moved up to third on a wild pitch. 
 
The Loggers took a commanding lead by plating four runs in the top of the fourth inning. First baseman Austin Deal (2 for 3) led the inning off with a single and a stolen base. Aaron Steinhoff (2 for 2, 2 RBI) followed with a double down the left field line to score Deal. Peyton Minder then sacrificed Steinhoff to third base with a bunt.  After a Johnny Steinwart fly out, Anderson and Collier both walked to load the bases with two outs, setting the stage for three hole hitter Nick Maton (2 for 3, 4 RBI).  Maton smashed a triple to the right field corner to clear the bases,  giving the Loggers a 5-1 lead. 
 
The Avengers answered with a single unearned run in the bottom half of the fourth inning to make the score 5-2, but the Loggers kept the offensive momentum in the top of the fifth by scoring five more runs, giving them a comfortable 10-2 lead.  The inning was highlighted by two run scoring doubles, one off the bat of Maton and the other coming from Steinwart, his first collegiate hit.
 
ASA chipped away by scoring three runs in their last three attempts, but it proved to be to little to late, as the Loggers held on to win 10-5. Lincoln Land finished with nine hits in the game, walked nine times, struck out ten times, and committed 5 errors.  Staten (1-0) was awarded the win for his effort.
 
In game two, LLCC didn't have much of an answer for the Avenger's starting pitcher Luis Sanchez.  Sanchez pitched all seven innings in the 8-2 victory for ASA. He allowed only two earned runs, scattered five Logger hits, walked one and struck out eight. The ASA offense tallied twelve hits in the contest, scoring single runs in the second and third innings, three runs in the fifth, two in the sixth, and tacked one in the seventh. 
 
For the Loggers, Sophmore Noah Kesselmayer (0-1) suffered the loss by allowing two runs in his one inning of work.  The Lincoln Land offense was highlighted by RBI singles from Austin Deal and CJ Fleming, and Nick Maton added a double. 
 
"We did some things well today, but the bad outweighed the good," coach Riggle said after the games.  " We will need to play much better than we did today in order to play at the level I know we are capable of. We have eight more games down here in Florida, so hopefully we learn from todays mistakes and are better the next time we take the field."
 
LLCC will be in action again on Sunday when they travel to Avon Park, Florida to take on South Florida State College in a single 9 inning game at 1:00pm.  Games can be followed using the iscore central app.