St. Charles Cougars baseball took down Lewis and Clark 8-4 on Thursday at Lloyd Hopkins Field. 

Lewis and Clark CC Trailblazers were the first to get on the board in the first inning, but the SCC Cougars took back the lead in the top of the second inning after Jonathon Frey singled to center field, allowing Ethan Lipp the chance to score. Ayden Katzberg followed up with a double down the right field line, and Frey made the run home. The score was 2-1 at the end of the second.  

Three more SCC Cougars crossed the plate in the fifth inning to extend the lead to 5-1. Jaiden Glency tripled, with Brenan Goering scoring one run, Kurt Lieber hit a sacrifice fly, so Glency could score, and Ethan Chiodini hit a solo home run to right field. 

The Trailblazers, however, attempted to make their comeback, scoring two runs in the bottom of the fifth and one in the seventh, bringing their point total up to 4. 

The SCC Cougars scored three more runs in the following innings, Frey and Nick Alagna in the sixth and Ethan Chiodini in the ninth, running up the score to 8-4.  

Pitcher Connor Henke surrendered four hits and three runs (zero earned) over seven innings, striking out six and walking one. Jeter Rupp collected the save. Braeden Hays threw one and one-third innings of no-run ball for the Cougars in relief. Hays allowed one hit, striking out one and walking two. 

SCC Cougars piled up 12 hits in the game. Glency led SCC Cougars with three hits in five at bats. Lieber, Chiodini, Frey, Glency, Katzberg, and Brenan Goering each drove in one run for SCC.