{"id":174632,"date":"2026-04-24T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174632\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:48:07","slug":"knights-come-up-short-in-erie-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174632\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights come up short in Erie | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE \u2014 The Eisenhower Knights came up just short in their game against Iroquois on Thursday at Mercyhurst University, falling 8-6 in Region 3 baseball.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning only to see the Braves make up the deficit and take a 3-2 in the bottom of the inning thanks to a Rex Brown double.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves added a pair of runs in the second inning and another run in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 6-2 lead into the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights\u2019 Carson Ferman singled, driving in Caleb Jakubczak, who drew a walk to get on base. Bryce Spinks singled in a run to cut the Braves lead to 6-4. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves would add a pair of runs in their half of the sixth inning to make the score 8-4. <\/p>\n<p>The Knights didn\u2019t give up. Jakubczak tripled driving in a run and Wes Wilcox singled in another run, but that\u2019s as close as they would get, eventually falling by a 8-6 score.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Neal started on the hill for Eisenhower. The right-hander went four innings, allowing five runs and striking out nine Braves. Jakubczack threw two innings of relief allowing two earned runs and striking out three.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/union-city-tops-ike-13-0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>UNION CITY \u2014 The Eisenhower Knights traveled to Union City on Thursday and lost 13-0 in Region 3 softball.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/warren-beats-meadville-4-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day for some tennis at Betts Park on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was even more satisfying as the Warren boys &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/knights-come-up-short-in-erie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>ERIE \u2014 The Eisenhower Knights came up just short in their game against Iroquois on Thursday at Mercyhurst &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/warren-softball-falls-to-erie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>The Warren girls softball team was defeated Thursday by the visiting Erie Royals 13-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons had a solid day &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/wrestlers-honored-for-academics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesobserver.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2026\/04\/dragons-sweep-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE \u2014 The Eisenhower Knights came up just short in their game against Iroquois on Thursday at Mercyhurst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,78320,2365],"class_list":["post-174632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-knights-come-up-short-in-erie","tag-local-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}