Loos jacks three home runs to help Trail Blazers split final home doubleheader
QUINCY — Lucas Loos went out with a bang.
Three bangs in fact.
The Payson Seymour product blasted three home runs during his final home doubleheader with the John Wood Community College baseball team, jacking two in the nightcap as the Trail Blazers earned a 9-4 victory over Illinois Central College in Mid-West Athletic Conference play.
The Cougars won the first game 9-3.
Loos went 2 for 5 with four RBIs, hitting a shot leading off the seventh inning to break a 3-3 tie and blasting a three-run bomb in the eighth inning. Blain Tuepker followed Loos’ seventh inning blast with a solo home run — his second of the game. Tupeker led off the second inning with a home run.
Tuepker went 4 for 5 with a double and three runs scored, while Jackson Huffstutler and Tyler Bickers both had two hits. Dalen Banks allowed one run and two hits over six innings with eight strikeouts and three walks to earn the victory.
In the first game, Loss jacked a two-run home run in the first inning and Bickers scored on Trey Bredensteiner’s single in the sixth inning to tie the game 3. ICC scored six times in the top of the seventh to grab the victory.
Loos and Tuepker both went 2 for 4 as the Trail Blazers were limited to five hits.
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