The Purdy Eagles baseball team beat Wheaton 6-2 Thursday in a lightning/rain shortened baseball game.
Purdy scored three runs in the first inning to take charge with Riley Veith and Landon Terry hitting doubles. Cody Hall clubbed a two-run homer.
Wheaton (3-1) scored its two runs in the first and third innings to pull within a run. Sean Goostree doubled and scored on Jakob Beck’s single in the first. Beck singled and scored on Darren Medley’s single in the third inning, making it 3-2.
Purdy (5-0) scored three unearned runs in the fifth – off two Wheaton errors – to pull ahead for good.
Wheaton had runners at second and third base, with no outs, in the sixth inning when the game was called because of lightning. It was the second such delay of the game.
Beck started and threw four innings, giving up five hits and striking out two, before leaving after a lightning delay in the fifth inning. Goostree pitched the fifth and sixth inning, giving up two hits and striking out three.
Wheaton plays at Hurley today at 4:30 p.m.
