NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. – The Trine University Baseball team dropped the first of a three game series to Manchester this afternoon.
Dane Dubois homered in the fifth for the Thunder, who are now 6-6. Manchester struck out nine to take the win and are now 6-5.
Manchester opened with a two run home run in the first. The Trine defense bowed up through the fourth to set up DuBois to cut the lead to one with a solo shot. The Spartans scored four in the fifth and two in the sixth.
Cole Temple would single in the top of the eighth to score
Nathan Gilmet who got in scoring position with a double.\
Trine tallied nine hits in the loss and will play two seven inning games tomorrow. The first game will start at 12:00 p.m.