The Arlington baseball team played two Saturday in Omaha, dropping both games by identical 6-4 scores.
The Eagles fell to the triangular host — the Roncalli Crimson Pride — first before Elkhorn Mount Michael held off their comeback second. Coach Tyler Stender's team is 1-5 overall.
Against Roncalli, AHS built a 3-2 advantage through the first two innings.
The Pride took a 4-3 lead, however, during a two-out rally in the bottom of the fourth. Arlington secured its two outs on a single pop fly when catcher Braden Monke picked off a runner at second base, but the Eagle's team couldn't get out of the frame unscathed.
Arlington went back to work offensively after the fourth-inning-ending groundout, though, tying the game back up during the top of the fifth. Kaden Pittman reached base on an error before Nick Smith advanced him to third on a groundout.
From there, the Eagles' Trevor Denker plated Pittman with a hit through the infield.
Tied 4-4, Roncalli earned the win when they scored two more runs with two outs in the sixth inning. AHS pitcher Grange Suhr tallied a strikeout and induced a flyout before the Pride scored a lead on back-to-back errors. A two-out RBI knock pushed its lead to the final margin, two runs.
Next, Stender's team scored three seventh-inning runs, but couldn't come all the way back against the Mount Michael Knights. Smith and Blaine Vogt notched RBIs during the two-run loss, while Pittman and Logan Kaup recorded two hits apiece. Pittman, Kaup, Smith and pinch-runner Wyatt Wollberg scored runs.
Smith and Pittman combined for four strikeouts on the mound as well, but Mount Michael earned the win.
Badgers top Eagles
Arlington lots its Thursday game at No. 4 Bennington, 9-0, too.
The Eagles managed just one hit against the Badgers with Monke going 1-for-3. Dalton Newcomer, meanwhile, drew two walks
Pittman, AHS' pitcher, struck out three Bennington batters in defeat.
