After playing a good brand of baseball over the weekend in a home round robin with Lansing and Pearl River, the Bears were hoping to follow it up with more quality play Wednesday with another round robin, this time in Ellisville and this time against No. 12 Jones and Northeast.
And even though the Bears put up a fight, they unfortunately fell in both contests, dropping Game 1 7-2 to the Bobcats and Game 2 9-1 to the Tigers.
"We have to figure out how to get going in the right direction. We have been playing really good baseball but today wasn't a good day," Southwest head coach Jack Edmonson said.
In Game 1 against the Bobcats, the Bears (7-14), grabbed the upper-hand first. In the second inning, Cody Presley led off with a walk and advanced to third when ensuing batter Trace Roy singled to right. Two at bats later, Presley touched home when Tanner Moore grounded out, putting Southwest ahead 1-0.
The momentum was unfortunately short-lived as the Bobcats answered back in the bottom half of the inning, tying the game.
Jones rallied the following inning, plating four additional runs putting Southwest down 5-1.
The Bears cut into the lead in the fifth when Cooper Lewis singled in Bruner Rushing making it a 5-2 game.
But the Bobcats added a run in the fifth making the deficit four once again, before scoring their final run in the sixth, making the score the eventual final.
Trace Roy led the Bears with two hits.
In the second game against the Tigers, the Bears fell behind in the first as Northeast scored three runs.
Rushing tried to rally the Bears in the second, continuing his productive day with a double to left, but he was unfortunately stranded.
The deficit grew for Southwest in the second when Northeast added two to make it a 5-0 game.
A single run in the fifth was followed by three in the sixth for the Tigers putting the Bears down 9-0.
Southwest kept fighting and scored a run in the seventh when Cam Bolden scored on a Zayne Landry sacrifice fly.
Southwest was led by Rushing who went 2-for-3 with two doubles.
The Bears return home to host John Melvin Christian Friday at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
