GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team dropped their final non-conference game of the season on Tuesday night at Greenville by a final score of 11-8.

The Panthers jumped on the board quickly in the first inning with five runs on a three-run home run and a two-run single.

Rose-Hulman bounce right back and retook the lead in the second with a seven-run inning. Mark Serdinak, Peter Rogers, and Colter Couillard-Rodak added RBI hits, and Kade Kline added an RBI groundout. Connor O'Connell then capped off the inning with a three-run home run to give the Fightin' Engineers the 7-5 lead.

Greenville tied the game back up in the botttom of the second inning, but O'Connell would come up big for Rose-Hulman once again with an RBI double in the fifth to retake the lead.

The Panthers struck back with 2 in the bottom of the fifth and two in the seventh to lead 11-8, and they would hold on to the mid-week victory.

Couillard-Rodak led the team at the plate with 3 hits and 2 runs scored. O'Connell added 2 hits and 4 RBIs in the loss.

On the mound for Rose-Hulman, Alec Lewandowski struggled in the start, but Zacheus Carr pitched well with 3.1 innings and just 2 runs allowed with 3 strikeouts. Brett Borcherding, Tyler Orr, and Jackson Summers closed out the game with Summers being the only pitcher to blank the Panthers.

With the loss, Rose-Hulman falls to 21-15 on the season. They will close out the 2024 regular season this weekend with a doubleheader at Hanover on Saturday and a doubleheader at home against Manchester on Sunday.