By John Rittenhouse
The Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth Patriots were unable to snap a baseball slide when they traveled to Edgerton for a Red Rock Conference tilt Thursday.
H-BC-E fell behind by four runs early and never recovered from the poor start while falling 4-1 to the Flying Dutchmen.
The Patriots were hampered by five fielding errors in the game, and some of them led to Edgerton scoring four runs in the first three innings.
The Flying Dutchmen plated single runs in the first and third frames while adding two counters in the second.
H-BC-E scored its lone run in the top of the fifth.
Kevin Van Batavia singled and scored when Zach Wysong doubled.
Wysong slapped two of H-BC-E's six hits in the contest.
Justin Van Maanen pitched all six innings for the Patriots.
Van Maanen fanned four batters for an H-BC-E team that dropped its fourth straight game.