By TYLER HENRY
Salina Post contributor
The reign of terror over the NCAA continued on Thursday as the Southeast of Saline baseball team handed Beloit a pair of losses in this year’s installment of the Trojan War.
With wins of 11-1 and 10-3 SES draws even with Ellsworth for the top spot in the league, advancing to 5-1 in NCAA play and 11-3 overall.
Over the course of the last two seasons, Southeast is now 14-2 in league play, and with two more double-digit scoring outputs the Trojans have now struck for ten or more in each of their last six contests.
Bryce Beisner pitched well through three innings for Beloit in game one, holding the Trojans to just two runs in the second, but the moment the sophomore standout left the mount SES pounced.
The Trojans dropped a seven-piece in the bottom of the fourth before securing the game one win in style on a two-run Mac Chambers bomb forcing a mercy rule “walk-off.”
On the hill, Landen Allen delivered a gem, holding Beloit to a single run on just three hits while mowing down seven batters in a complete-game victory.
SES picked up right where they left off in game two, this time with a slow, methodical attack through the lineup, scoring runs in five of the six innings they came to bat in.
Landen Allen and Evan Nickelson each delivered big hits combining to go 6-8 on the day, driving in two apiece.
Bryce Cooper and Jaython Mathis kept the Beloit bats at bay, allowing an average of just one hit per inning and fanning twelve batters while walking just three.
The Trojans will host 1-5 Minneapolis in a doubleheader next Tuesday before resting up for the two biggest games of their regular season at Ellsworth on May 3.