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3.17.04 - Too many defensive mistakes cost the Foresters in a tight, extra-inning game with Missouri Baptist University, giving the Spartans the 7-6 win.  HC took a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by Brian Porter, but Missouri Baptist tied it up with a run in the top of the eighth.  Neither team scored in the ninth sending the game into an extra inning.  The Spartans pushed the game-winning run across in the top of the tenth and held off the Foresters in their half of the frame.  Steve Orth and Porter led HC at the plate with three hits apiece and two RBI.  Levi Sell (0-1), who took over for Jason Stanley in the sixth, gave up two unearned runs off three hits and one walk in the loss.  "We played well enough to be close, but we made too many defensive mistakes to win," said Coach Frame.  "Sell was outstanding in relief of Stanley and we had 12 hits against a pretty good lefthander."  The loss drops the men to 3-5 on the season.