River Dragons use 10-run inning to hand Doggy Paddlers road loss in seven innings

ALTON, Ill. — The Quincy Doggy Paddlers’ three-run lead was gone in one fell swoop.

Quincy led 3-0 entering the bottom of the third inning on Saturday against the Alton River Dragons before Alton scored 10 runs in that frame and never looked back in a 15-5 victory in seven innings.

A pair of RBI singles by Skylar Graham and General Schofield gave the Doggy Paddlers a 2-0 lead in the first inning, and a Jimmy Koza sacrifice fly in the second brought in their third run.

The River Dragons sent 15 batters to the plate and hit for the cycle as a team in the third. Trevor Goodwin’s three-run home run gave Alton a 5-3 lead, and the River Dragons added five more runs in the inning. They also scored two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to cap a string of 15 straight runs. The Doggy Paddlers scored two runs in the seventh before a Brady Kindhart popout ended the game.

The top three in the River Dragons’ lineup combined for five hits, five RBIs and eight runs. Jake Merda and Jameson Johnson each went 2 for 3 for the Doggy Paddlers (1-4).