FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Messiah baseball team dropped a 14-4 contest against the Wilkes Colonels on Saturday morning. Despite the loss, Messiah finished their spring break week with a strong 4-1 record in their five games in the sunshine state.
 
Wilkes scored three runs in the second inning and eventually took a 10-1 lead midway through the sixth inning. Despite three runs late, Messiah was unable to make up the Colonels' lead and fell by the 14-4 final.
 
Sam Zercher led the Falcons with four hits while Reed Wagner drove home a pair of runs on a single in the eighth inning.
 
Messiah's first run came in the second when Dustin Isanogle scored on an error.
 
In the sixth, Thomas Murray drove home Dean Carver with a single to centerfield and Wagner drove home two with a single to left field. Those four runs were not enough to make up for multi-run innings from the Colonels in the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh.
 
Messiah moves to 8-6 on the season and will be back in action on Tuesday when they travel to Johns Hopkins to take on the Blue Jays at 5:00 p.m. in Baltimore.