The No. 10 ranked Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk baseball team entertained Eddyville-Blakesburg Wednesday night at Paul N. Bailey Field in Wellman for a non-conference doubleheader, splitting the twin bill with the Rockets by winning game one 15-2 in five innings and dropping game two 10-7.

The opener belonged to the Hawks. Eddyville-Blakesburg scratched across an early run to go up 1-0 after the top half of the first. The Golden Hawks answered back by batting around in the bottom half, scoring five times on four hits against starter Logan McCrea. Aidan Rath and Monte Slabaugh delivered RBI hits in the rally with Brad Tornow, Keegan Gingerich, Rath and Karson Grout each scoring runs. Mid-Prairie would add two more in the second as Tornow and Cain Brown scored. The Rockets pushed one across in the top of the third to get within 7-2 but Mid-Prairie continued to roll with two more runs in the third and an 11 hitter six run fourth put the game out of reach. Keegan Gingerich recorded the win going all five on the mound, giving up three hits, two runs, walking three and striking out five. At the plate, Rath drove in four on two hits, Slabaugh added two RBI.

In the nightcap the Rockets got revenge by a 10-7 score. It was Mid-Prairie’s turn to jump out first with Monte Slabaugh driving in Brad Tornow on an RBI groundout to go up 1-0. Eddyville-Blakesburg scored twice in the second to go up 2-1, only to see Mid-Prairie answer back in the bottom half as Will Cavanagh came home to tie the game at two. The Rockets countered with a single tally in the third to go up 3-2 and then added three runs in the fourth on four hits, expanding the lead to 6-2. The fourth was the Golden Hawks big inning, four runs came across in the frame as eight Hawks saw the plate, Karson Grout delivered a two out, two RBI triple down the left field line to tie the game at six. The back and fourth continued with the Rockets responding for four runs in the top of the fifth to back up 10-6. Mid-Prairie would muster one more run, an Aidan Rath RBI single that scored Brad Tornow to get within 10-7. The Golden Hawks loaded the bases in the seventh but could not break through against the Rocket pen, falling for the first time on the season. Brayden Gingerich took the loss for the Hawks, going an inning and two thirds, allowing six hits, six runs, three of them earned, walking three and striking out one. Slabaugh and Grout led the Hawks with two RBI each. Mid-Prairie is now 2-1 on the year as they get ready to take on Tipton Thursday.