Carthage Baseball Pounds Lakeland

The Carthage College baseball team (25-12, 12-6 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) pounded non-conference opponent Lakeland College. In the first game Carthage took a 9-0 lead after three innings. It was all Carthage baseball from there on out as the scored two in the fourth and four runs in each the fifth, sixth, and seventh. The final score for the Red Men 23-0 gave them the W for the first game.
The Red Men came out hot again in second game as they would put up 10 runs after three innings of play. The Red Men would later jump to a 17-0 lead after six innings. Carthage would go on to win the second game with a final 20-1.
The Red Men put up 43 runs and allowed 1 between the two games. The Red Men now look to carry on the fire as they take on conference opponent North Park at Carthage in their final home game for the 2010 season.

Carthage takes two out of three against Millikin

The Carthage College baseball team (22-12, 11-6 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) split a Saturday, May 1 doubleheader with CCIW-opponent Millikin University. The Red Men took the first game 13-5 not before coming back. In the bottom on the eighth inning the Red Men were down 5-4. In the top of the ninth the Red Men came back scoring nine runs to pull ahead 13-5.
In the second game Millikin took the game 14-10. The Red Men firsted off good with a 8-2 lead after two innings. As the game went on the Big Blue slowly put up runs to tie the game 10-10. In the bottom of the ninth Millikin hit a walk off grand slam to end the game and giving the Red Men the lost.
On the second day down in Decatur, the Red Men look to come back firing at Millikin. In game three the Red Men came out hot as they took a 5-2 lead after two. In the fifth the Big Blue tied the game 5-5 about later carthage scored two to cut the score to 7-5. In the eight the score was 8-6 and the Red Men would finish off the game by putting up 4 runs in the ninth to make the final score 12-6.