Iowa-Grant’s baseball team had a comfortable 8-2 lead after five innings at Boscobel Friday but the Bulldogs did all they could to change that.
The Bulldogs scored five runs in the final two frames but the Panthers were able to hold on for an 8-7 win in the SWAL battle.
An error scored the first Panther run in the second.
A double by Brock Hinderman, and a single by Maddox Fisher helped Iowa-Grant extend their early lead in the third.
Fisher started on the mound for the Panthers. He gave up seven hits and two runs (one earned) over five innings, striking out three and walking one.
Will Fulton and Hayden Aultman appeared in relief for the Panthers.
Iowa-Grant had 13 hits in the game. Hinderman was the rbi leader with two. He went 2-for-4 on the day.
Brody Lindner, Everett Zimmer, Sam Lundell, and Hinderman each had two hits for Iowa-Grant.
Fisher, Myles Pettit, Ayson Speth, Treaton Loeffelholz and Fulton had a hit each for the Panthers.