By Michael Letendre

SOUTH WINDSOR – The Bristol Eastern baseball team cruised into the sixth inning of its CCC Interdivisional tilt against South Windsor on Monday with a lead in hand before things fell apart on the locals. 

The Bobcats ended up scoring three runs in the bottom of the sixth, handing the Lancers a tough 7-5 loss from Rotary Field in South Windsor. 

Eastern (1-9) lost for the ninth time in ten games while South Windsor moved to 2-7 overall. 

It was another tough luck loss for the Kingstreeters as Eastern pitcher Andrew Lozier threw a complete game effort, giving his squad a solid start on the hill. 

He allowed South Windsor just three hits and one earned run entering the bottom of the sixth, with Eastern leading 5-4, before that fateful sixth stanza nixed a possible winning effort.   

The Bobcats collected five singles off Lozier in the sixth, notching three runs to snare a 7-5 edge which eventually led to the victory. 

From the plate, Lozier dominated once again, collecting three hits overall to pace Eastern’s 10 hit attack. 

Lozier tallied an RBI single in the first inning, drilled a long two-run home run over the right field fence in the fifth, and added a double in the seventh to help light up the scoreboard as Eastern put the tying run at the plate late in the seventh.   

Tyler Stickels and Trevor Nohilly added two hits apiece while Jaydon Churchill dropped in a triple for the Lancers. 

Eastern grabbed the lead early, lost it, then regained it in a three-run fifth before the contest eventually fell apart.  

In the first frame, Churchill was hit-by-pitch, stole second, and scored on Lozier’s single up the middle to make it a 1-0 game.   

South Windsor grabbed a run in the bottom of the second stanza to tie things at 1-1 but Eastern went right back to work in the third. 

Churchill tripled to left-center field and scored on a sacrifice fly by Dylan Woodsome to make it a 2-1 game.   

South Windsor then picked up another unearned run in the bottom of the third to tie the game again, this time at 2-2. 

In the bottom of the fourth, the Bobcats scored two runs off only one hit as an RBI single by Peyton West gave the home team a 4-2 lead. 

However, the Lancers scored three times in the fifth to snare a 5-4 edge as Lozier went back to the long ball. 

Woodsome singled to put one on and then Lozier homered to tie the game at 4-4.   

Stickels followed up with a single to left and Ben D’Amato drew a walk to put two on.  

Finally, Ryan Fradette sent an RBI single to left that notched a run and propelled the Lancers to a 5-4 lead. 

The Bobcats were blanked in the bottom of the fifth but in the sixth, South Windsor rallied for three runs – helping the home team to the eventual 7-5 victory. 

The Lancers play a big one on Wednesday, squaring off against rival Bristol Central from Muzzy Field at 6:30 p.m. 

CCC Interdivisional Baseball 

SOUTH WINDSOR 7, BRISTOL EASTERN 5 

from Rotary Field, South Windsor 

Bristol Eastern (1-9)             101 030 0 – 5 10 3 

South Windsor (2-7)             011 203 x – 7 8 1 

Battery – Bristol Eastern: Andrew Lozier & Cameron Moore; South Windsor: Jack Dempsky, Nick Worthington (5) & Tim Sigler. 

WP: Worthington (SW); LP: Lozier (BE) 

Bristol Eastern Batting 

2B – Andrew Lozier 

3B – Jaydon Churchill

HR – Andrew Lozier 

South Windsor Batting 

2B – Brian Allard 

3B – None

HR – None

Records: South Windsor 2-7 overall; Bristol Eastern 1-9