Though the outcome and score may not reflect the effort, the Lancaster Bible baseball team played one of its best games of the young season on Wednesday as they lost to Dickinson, 8-2 in Carlisle, Pa. The loss drops the Chargers to 0-8 this season, while the Red Devils improved to 6-9. 

Lancaster Bible opened the scoring on Wednesday as the Chargers loaded the bases in the first inning and scored a run on Jimmy Eagan's sacrifice fly to right field that plated Nate Long. Dickinson tied the game at 1-1 in its half of the first inning, but Lancaster Bible restored its lead in the third inning on another sacrifice fly, this time by freshman Hunter Gray. His sacrifice fly to center field scored Erich Carroll and the Chargers had a 2-1 lead after 2 1/2 innings.

The Chargers loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth inning, but were unable to score. That proved costly as Dickinson hit back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the fourth and tied the game at 2-2. The score remained 2-2 until the bottom of the sixth when Dickinson's Rick Hopkins hit a two-run single to give the Red Devils a 4-2 lead. 

Dickinson scored three more times in the seventh and once in the eighth to earn an 8-2 win over the Chargers. Lancaster Bible mustered eight hits against the Red Devils, but just one after the fourth inning as the Chargers lost for the eighth straight time.

Long finished 2-for-4 with a walk and a run scored, while Carroll was 1-for-3 with a run scored. Josh Mayer, Justin Taylor, JJ Sanchez, Ryan Hartline and Eagan also had hits for the Chargers. 

Freshman Braden Elliott had another solid start on the mound as he threw 6 1/3 innings and allowed just three earned runs while walking just one. 

Lancaster Bible will play its next eight games at home beginning on Friday when the Chargers host Baptist Bible for a doubleheader at 1 p.m.