COLUMBIA, Ky. – The Lindsey Wilson baseball team hosted the first doubleheader of the season in Egnew Park this afternoon, splitting the two games with the No. 15 Wildcats.

The Blue Raiders (3-3) blanked the visitors 13-0 in game one before the Wildcats (1-1) responded with a 19-3 victory of their own in game two. Both contests today were seven-inning games.

GAME 1

The Blue Raiders used an offensive explosion in the bottom of the sixth to tack on eight runs pushing a 5-0 lead to 13 to earn their victory on the afternoon.

Michael Sizemore led the team to the victory after scoring three runs, producing three hits and an RBI. Gabe Board also produced three hits on the day scoring one run for two RBIs while Koby Wall led the team with four RBIs after he homered in the fourth inning.

Cohen Achen earned the start from the bump, producing six innings of work where he corralled eight strikeouts and four walks while allowing only four hits. As a team, the Blue Raiders produced 16 total hits on the day with no errors.

The Blue Raiders opened the scoring with an RBI single from Board in the bottom half of the first inning that scored Sizemore's first run of the day to get things started.

Lindsey Wilson continued to tack on the runs after a home run from Wall made it 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth. The home run was Wall's third of the season.

Sizemore made it 5-0 in the fifth after scoring on an error from the Wildcats and as the teams moved into the sixth, the Blue Raiders offense sparked and exploded as they scored eight straight runs to put the game well out of the reach of the Wildcats and earned the first victory of the afternoon.

GAME 2

The second game of the day was one that the Blue Raiders will certainly hope to forget quickly as the Wildcats produced nine runs in the opening inning in a 19-3 rallied response to going down in game one.

Only three Blue Raiders got on the board after Gunner Bush, Nico Martinez, and Wall all scored runs in the defeat.

Pitching was a struggle for the Blue Raiders as the side rotated through five pitchers in the game with Josh Barnett getting the nod at the mound to start things off. It was not his day however as he only worked through a half-inning after giving up eight runs and three walks for four hits to the visitors.

Jalen Riley, William Monheimer, Bailey Turner, and Nick Backstrom all saw action from the mound in game two.

After the Wildcats started things off with a 9-0 run in the first inning, they continued to pile on the runs as Evan Salmon homered in the second inning to make it a 10-0 game. The Wildcats added two more runs in the fourth before the Blue Raiders finally got on the board thanks to a Bush RBI double to score both Wall and Martinez. Jaden Cockerel singled on the following at-bat to score the run of Bush making it a 12-3 ball game.

The three-run answer wasn't enough to spark a comeback however as the Blue Raiders were shut out in the next three innings with the Wildcats scoring a run in the fifth and six more in the sixth to make it 19-3, splitting the doubleheader on the day.

The Lindsey Wilson baseball team will return to Egnew Park tomorrow to conclude the four-game series with another doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. CT.