Everything was looking pretty good going into the bottom of the fifth inning of game one. We were up 6-0 thanks to 4 solid innings on the mound from Carson Cheesman and clutch hits and agressive baserunning up and down our lineup. Then in the fifth inning we reverted back to some of the bad habits that we've had in previous games and allowed Rock Island to tie the game up thanks to a couple errors, walks and 2 hits. We regrouped to take the lead 8-6 only to give them five more runs in the bottom of the inning and lose the game 11-8. Luckily the rain that they were calling for never came and we had a chance to redeem ourselves and win game two 22-10.
In game 2 we batted around in each of the first 3 innings. Rock Island didn't have much pitching after game 1. We had a chance to end the game after 5 innings, but Rock Island was able to score 4 runs to make the score 17 to 9. We then added 5 runs in the 6th inning to make the final score 22 to 10. Drew Diaz led the way offensively for Galesburg going 5-5 including his first homerun of the season. Carson Cheesman added a 4-5 effort that was part of the 21 hit attack from Galesburg in game 2.
