QND baseball team limited to five hits as four-game winning streak ends at Beardstown

BEARDSTOWN, Ill. — The Quincy Notre Dame baseball team’s four-game winning streak was snapped on Thursday in a 7-4 loss to Beardstown.

Raiders starter Abram Wiewel only lasted 2 1/3 innings, leaving the game after allowing a single and striking out a batter in the third inning and QND ahead 3-1. Beardstown scored four runs against reliever Eli Johnson thanks to two walks, a single, a double and an error that cost the Raiders two runs.

QND got back within 5-4 on an RBI groundout by Kaden Marth in the fourth inning. Beardstown (9-4) bounced back in the bottom of the fourth with two runs coming with two outs on a walk, two doubles and an error.

The Raiders (10-5) had just one hit, a single by Logan Sutton, in the final three innings against Tigers starter Tanner Riddell, who struck out 10 batters.

Sutton and Oliver Triplett combined for four of the Raiders’ five hits. The top six batters in the QND batting order went 1-for-18.