The Poolesville Falcons baseball team (Poolesville, MD), was overwhelmed 8-2 in Thursday's non-league outing with the host Gaithersburg Trojans (Gaithersburg, MD)

The Trojans now hold a 13-5 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Quince Orchard for a non-league outing on Saturday, May 8. Gaithersburg will confront a Cougars team coming off a 8-5 non-league loss to Blake (Silver Spring, MD). The Cougars record now stands at 12-5.

Next, the Falcons confront the Blake Bengals (Silver Spring, MD) in a non-league outing, on Saturday, May 8. Poolesville will attempt to advance on its 6-8 season record. The Bengals go into the outing with a 11-3 record after their 8-5 non-league win over Quince Orchard (Gaithersburg, MD).

The Falcons lost to Gaithersburg today 8-2.

Starter Drew Karlin pitched the first three innings allowing only 1 unearned run in the 3rd inning as Gaithersburg scored on a passball to go up 1-0. The Falcons struck back in the top of the 4th with a lead double by Karlin, a single by Tanner Werkmann and then a perfect suicide squeeze bunt by Ben Pyser to even the score at 1-1.

The Falcons then took the lead in the top of the 5th after Patrick Lott was hit by a pitch, advanced to 2nd on a wild pitch and then was driven in by Jimmy Tyler's double.

Gaithersburg fought back in the bottom half of the 5th facing Darryl Lang. With two outs and the bases loaded, Gaithersburg hit a grand slam to break the game wide open 5-2. The Trojans then added three more in the sixth against Zach Reiziss and Tanner Werkmann.

The game ended at 8-2 in favor of the Trojans.

The loss moved the Falcons record to 6-8 with their next game this Saturday at Blake at 1:30pm.