The Middlebury baseball team was defeated during both games of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon by Trinity. In a pair of seven-inning contests, the Bantams (14-13) took the opener by a 4-2 score and swept the twinbill with an 8-0 victory in the nightcap. The Panthers return to action on Tuesday when they travel to Skidmore for a single game with the first pitch scheduled at 4:00 p.m.

The Panthers drew back-to-back walks to start the opener by Dylan Sinnickson and Max Araya, as both came around to score on a two-out double by John Luke. Trinity got both runs back in the third inning, as Jonathan Frank led off with a single and scored after a double by Connor Sullivan and a Middlebury error. 

Trinity's Evan Abraham drove home Sullivan with a single to tie the game at 2-2 after three innings, and Trinity took the lead for good on a lead-off, solo homerun to left field by Adam Moossmann in the fourth frame. Carson Kenney added an RBI single in the sixth inning to round out the scoring.

Meekins improved to 3-1, allowing just two runners past first base from the second inning to the sixth. He worked the first six frames, allowing two runs on four hits with eight strikeouts and three walks. Sam Jordan came on in the seventh to collect the save.

Eric Truss (2-4) worked his third complete game of the year, yielding eight hits and four runs, three earned, with one walk and five strikeouts over six innings.

In the second game, Trinity's Jed Robinson tossed a two-hit shutout with two walks and five strikeouts, and Dan Pidgeon went 3-4 with a double, a steal, and two runs scored. The Bantams scored four times in the second inning on a two-run single by Sullivan, and a two-run double by Nick Pezzella. Middlebury committed two errors in the inning, so just one of the four runs allowed by Panther starter Robert Erickson was earned. 

Trinity tacked on three more in the fourth frame, as Bryan Wolfe provided an RBI single and both Brendan Pierce and Moossmann doubled home runs. Kenney delivered an RBI single in the fifth inning for the final run of the game. Middlebury did not advance a runner past first base until the seventh frame when the bases loaded up on a hit batsman, a single by Raj Palekar, and a Bantam error, but Robinson retired the final two batters to close it out.

Erickson (0-5) worked the first two innings for the Panthers on the mound, while Joe MacDonald also pitched a pair of innings. Eddie DeArias and Cooper Byrne both logged an inning for the Panthers. Pidgeon went 3-4 for the Bantams with a pair of runs scored, while Abraham, Wolfe and Moossmann all had multi-hit performances in the nightcap.