The Emory baseball team took on Wabash College in their third all-time matchup Tuesday afternoon, falling to the Little Giants 8-6 at Chappell Park.
Wabash wasted no time finding home plate as an RBI in the top of the first gave the Little Giants their first run to make it 1-0, but junior Jonathan Lang responded as a single to left field brought classmate Jake Lawson home while fellow junior Zach Hanson scored on a throwing error to give the Eagles the 2-0 lead.
The second went scoreless on both sides before Wabash tied it with another single to left field, but in the Eagles half of the inning senior Nick Sullo reached first on a pass ball to give Dalton Needle the unearned run to make it 3-2.
The Eagles kept their momentum going in the bottom of the fourth thanks to a Hanson double that brought Lawson in to give the Eagles the 4-2 lead.
The fifth saw no runs from both teams, but Wabash got hot in the top of the 6th as they plated six runs on four hits including a go-ahead three-run home run off the foul pole to bring the score to 8-4.
The game would go scoreless until the Eagles found some runs in the bottom of the eighth as an Aiden Armstrong double brought Lawson home and a sac fly from Lang helped Hanson score to bring the Eagles within two of the lead.
The remaining innings would go scoreless, giving the Little Giants the two-run win in Atlanta.
The Eagles will head down the road next Tuesday to take on Oglethorpe before a three-game series against Piedmont that following weekend.
