GREENVILLE – The Greenville Junior Thunder dropped a Tuesday night 8-3 seven-inning game to the visiting Dayton Classics at Sater Park.
The Classics junior squad took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first and made it a 3-0 game going into the bottom of the third with the local Thunder team plating a run to make it 3-1 after three complete.
Neither team would dent the board in the fourth but it was the Classics plating three fifth-inning runs to lead 6-1.
The Dayton squad scored 2-runs in the top of the seventh to go up 8-1 before the Thunder score 2-runs in the bottom of the inning for a final 8-3 score.
The Greenville Thunder Junior team played excellent defense and put runners on base but was unable to get the timely hits needed to earn a home win.
The 2020 Greenville Junior Thunder team includes: Carson Bey, Seth Delk, Alex Baumgardner, Ben Ruhenkamp, Hayden Bush, Zach Ullery, Jacob Treon, Alex Kolb, Aiden Psczulkowski, Hunter Parks, Tyler McKinnis, Issac Mills, Cayden Clark, Joe Ruhenkamp and A.J. Shaffer and is coached by Austin Baumgardner.