Eutectics play to big crowd, but fall to Bears

The UHSP Eutectics finished out their inaugural season with their last game of the season. The Eutectics played host to Washington University on Friday afternoon at Stars Park on the campus of Harris-Stowe State University.

Washington's Connor Lindsey came into the game 2-for-20 for the season with just two RBI.  The second of his two homeruns on the day put the Bears up for good in a 3-run 7^th inning as WashU went on to win 11-5. Lindsey would go 2-for-4 with a pair of walks and five RBI's on the day.

Lindsey's first homer of the day put Washington ahead 2-1 in the top of the third. The Eutectics took a 3-2 lead as they were gifted singleton runs in the third and fourth, the first scoring on a throwing error, the second coming home on a wild pitch. A UHSP defensive error in the fifth tied the game and WashU's Max Myers walked with the bases loaded to give the Bears a short-lived 4-3 lead.

In the home half of the fifth, Malcolm Merriwether drove in his third run of the game and put the home club back on top. Merriwether had an RBI single in the first to open the scoring, but belted a towering homerun to leftfield, his fifth homerun of the year. But Lindsey's second dinger of the game turned things around for the Bears as they sent eight men to the plate in the seventh scoring three times. They would add four more in the ninth.

Washington outhit the Purple and Gold 16-6. Hank Weiss was the sixth of nine pitchers the Bears used in the game and picked up the win. Eric Ragan took the loss for the Eutectics going an inning and two thirds allowing three runs on six hits, striking out two and walking one.

The Eutectics played the 2023 campaign as an exhibition year and finished 7-25. The 2024 season will be their first as a sanctioned program and played as a full member of the American Midwest Conference.