The Le Mars Gehlen baseball team dropped to 1-1 on the season after losing 5-2 to Central Lyon on Friday afternoon.

The Lions scored their first run in the third inning before the Jays came out swinging in the top of the fourth inning and rallied to take a 2-1 lead.

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Taylor Smith led off with a single and advanced to third when Craig Schlesser singled, putting runners at the corners. Gehlen attempted a suicide squeeze but missed the bunt.

With Taylor on his way home, he got caught in a run-down. However, the Lions made an error on the play and Taylor scored as Schlesser advanced to third as the Jays tied the game .

Tyler Meyer scored Schlesser from third with a groundout as the run was scored on a fielder's choice. The two-run inning put the Jays up heading into the fifth inning.

However, Gehlen's lead wasn't safe for long as the Lions came right back and scored four runs to take a 5-2 lead. The Jays' bats went quiet in the final two frames as Gehlen lost their first game.

Schlesser took the loss as he went 4 1/3 innings and scattered seven hits. The Lions tagged the senior for five runs, all earned. He walked five batters and had five strikeouts on the afternoon.

"Craig pitched a great ball game against a good hitting team " said Gehlen coach Marty Kurth. "We just didn't have enough offense. We put the ball in play but just hit it right at them."

Aaron Schlesser came on as a reliever in the fifth inning and went the final 1 2/3 innings and gave up just one hit and had 1 punch-out.

"It was a good game," said Kurth. "You hate to come out and lose, but it was a good game."

The Jays will be at home Tuesday when Sergeant Bluff-Luton comes to town for the conference opener.