BASEBALL: Legion teams busy on Wednesday
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Pinckneyville-Du Quoin American Legion Posts 2504 & 647 had mixed results on the baseball diamond Wednesday, with the Senior team falling at Steeleville, the #1 Juniors riding a one-hitter from Evan Chapman to victory in Chester, and the #2 Juniors dropping a home game to Sparta.
The Senior team's only run came in the top of the seventh inning as Bryce Harre reached on a walk and later scored on a wild pitch. Meanwhile, Steeleville racked up 11 runs and scored the game-winner on a walk-off bases on balls in the bottom of the seventh.
Noah Hepp (2-3), Adam Barczewski (1-4), Craig Dahlman (1-3 and Dylan Meier (1-3) had hits for Pinckneyville-Du Quoin.
The Senior team (7-5) is at Sparta on Wednesday for two games beginning at 4:30 p.m.
At Chester, Evan Chapman fired his second one-hitter in the past ten days, allowing just one hit in a 4-0 shutout for Posts 2504 & 647's #1 Junior team.
Joey Burris (2-3), John Goodrich (3-4, 2 RBI) and Chapman (1-4, RBI) led the way on offense.
The victory improved the #1 Juniors' record to 7-3 on the season and a perfect 6-0 in district play.
A second game was played for exhibition, won 8-4 by P-DQ with Luke Chapman picking up the pitching victory.
The #2 Juniors had a 3-0 lead and command of their home game with Sparta on Wednesday evening, but fell apart in the fifth inning and ultimately lost 7-3 at Rigdon Field in Pinckneyville.
Caleb Dahn and Chase Lazenby both walked in the bottom of the second, then came in to score on an RBI double by Colton Nelson. Dahn then drove in Brendon Shepard, who had doubled, in the third for the home team's 3-0 advantage.
Dahn allowed just one hit on the mound through four innings, but Sparta strung together three base hits in the fifth and took advantage of an error to grab the lead.
A walk and an error led to two more for Sparta Post 396 in the seventh, and the last three hitters for P-DQ all went down on strikes in the bottom half of the inning.
Shepard (1-3, 2B, R), Dahn (1-2, BB, RBI) and Nelson (1-2, BB, 2B, 2 RBI) had the hits for Posts 2504 & 647's #2 Junior team (5-5, 1-2).
Pinckneyville-Du Quoin's two Junior squads will face off this Saturday for a 4:00 p.m. doubleheader at Rigdon Field.
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