MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (March 24, 2017) â€" After being shut out in game one, Jacob Littleton and the Milligan College baseball team looked to rebound in game two, but the Buffs ultimately came up short to Point University in both games of a doubleheader Friday night on Anglin Field. Milligan lost the games 5-0 and 3-2.
 
Littleton pitched his best game of the year in the nightcap but suffered the loss when Point broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the seventh to regain control of what was a back-and-forth affair. Littleton threw all seven innings and allowed only six hits, three runs (one earned) and two walks while striking out five. He gave up unearned runs in the third and fifth, then surrendered the game winning run on a double with two out in the seventh.
 
Milligan (13-15, 5-6 AAC) tied the game in the fourth and fifth as Chris Patterson homered to deep left-center field with two out in the fourth, then Julian Johnson doubled to deep right-center field with one out in the fifth. Johnson's double scored Juan Vasquez from first and made it a 2-2 game, but the Skyhawks answered with the winning run an inning and a half later.
 
For Patterson, the home runs was his eighth of the year, all of which have come in the last 10 games. He also has six home runs and 17 RBI's in the last six games.
 
In game one, junior right-hander Austin Perry made the start and posted similar numbers to Littleton's, but with no run support suffered the loss. Perry went five and two-thirds innings with eight hits, five runs (one earned), a walk and three punchouts. Point (18-12, 8-3 AAC) tagged him for an unearned run in the second, a solo home run in the fourth, then opened the game up with three runs in the sixth.
 
Jackson Arnold came in to relieve Perry with two out in the sixth and ended with a line of 1.1 innings, one hit, no runs, no walks and a strikeout.
 
Perry's counterpart, Payne Kosobucki, went the distance for the Skyhawks, striking out 10 and allowing only two hits.
 
Milligan and Point will wrap up the series on Saturday with a single game scheduled for 1 p.m. back here on Anglin Field. After that, the Buffs will hit the road for Shawnee State for a nonconference doubleheader on Tuesday then Tennessee Wesleyan University for a three-game AAC series next Friday-Saturday.