Baseball Recap: Sawyer Ernsberger and Michael Slabaugh secure win for Fairfield

By Team Reports May 9, 2024, 12:01pm

Baseball Recap: Fairfield Falcons vs. Jimtown Jimmies

Fairfield entered their tilt with Jimtown with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 5-3 win over the Jimtown Jimmies on Saturday. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Fairfield also won the last time the pair played back in May of 2023.

Fairfield let Michael Slabaugh and Sawyer Ernsberger loose on the outfield. Slabaugh scored a run while going 2-for-3, while Ernsberger scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3.

On Jimtown's side, they saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Aiden Carithers, who went 2-for-2 with a double.

Fairfield is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-5 record this season. As for Jimtown, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 14-6.

Fairfield will look to defend their home field on Thursday against Prairie Heights at 5:30 p.m. Fairfield is facing Prairie Heights at the right time seeing as Prairie Heights is stuck on a ten-game losing streak. As for Jimtown, they didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next matchup, a 14-4 defeat vs. Penn on the 8th.

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