Leopards sneak past Ranger

Fresh off its series win over North Central, Ranger played host to Temple College on Wednesday looking to keep its winning streak going. It was a drastically lower scoring pair of games that took place on Saturday, but the Leopards scored enough to sneak past the Rangers winning both games by the scores of 6-4 and 7-2.

DECIDING MOMENTS

GAME 1: The final result was lower scoring, but the first inning of the opener looked like it was going to be more of the same. TC got off to a hot start without making much contact. The Leopards used an error and walk combo to take a 2-0 lead. A sacrifice fly made it 3-0 and another walk and single combo made it 4-0 Temple headed to the bottom of the first.

Ranger answered back with two outs in their half of the inning. Christian Sanjurjo got RC on the board with a RBI single. Luis Vargas followed with a 2-RBI base hit and Ranger was back within one but was never able to get any closer.

GAME 2: Temple held a 4-1 lead headed to the seventh and after a double play made it two outs and no one on, it looked like Ranger was going to come to plate still trailing by just three. The Leopards rallied sparked a rally with a single and walk, which allowed TC to score a pair of runs on back-to-back singles. Temple added a run before the third out was recorded to take a 7-1 lead.

BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX SCORE

Vargas: 2 hits, 3 RBIs.

Sanjurjo: 2 hits, RBI.

Austin Stokes 4 hits.

Ryan Dufrene 3 hits.

SCHEDULE SAYS

Ranger will look to even the series with the Leopards when they travel to Temple on Friday.