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ORANGE, Calif. — Baseball split its day of action at home on Friday against Adrian, starting the day with a 6-5 loss in 12 innings, bouncing back with a 5-3 win in game two.

Game 1

Game of the year so far in 2024 as the Panthers were down to their final out in the 10th inning, trailing 5-3. Josh Phillips came to bat with runners on first and second and ripped a single into right. The ball bounced past the right fielder, resulting in two runs and a tied game.

Phillips came up again in the 12th with a runner on second and hit a moonshot caught at the warning track.

The Panthers battled the entire game, leading 1-0 for the first three innings. Adrian tacked on a two-spot in the fourth. Chapman tied it in the bottom half; then a sixth-inning homer gave the Bulldogs another lead. The Panthers tied the game in the eighth, helping to force extras.

Henry Chabot, who's used to pitching one or two innings an outing, went four – from the eighth to the 11th – and kept the Panthers in the game in the late innings. He relieved Brandon Menzel, who had his third straight quality start to open the season – seven innings, three runs, and five punchouts. 

Chapman couldn't get much going at the plate as Phillips and Tommy Golbranson combined for seven of the Panthers' nine hits.

Game 2 

After allowing a first-inning run, Colin Godfrey was lights out, pitching seven innings of one-run ball and striking out five Bulldogs – the best start of his career.

Offensively, Kai Osaka kept his hot streak going with a first-inning homer. Gobranson kept it going from the first game, hitting a homer of his own – his first as a Panther.

After Osaka's two-run shot, the Panthers led for the remainder of the contest. 

The Panthers will face the Bulldogs on Sunday at 1 p.m. in a rubber match to decide a series victor.