The first road trip of the season resulted in the first loss for the Washington baseball team on Friday when they fell to Solon 6-4 in a non-conference showdown. 

The Demons struck first in the third when Ethan Patterson connected on the team’s first long ball of the year with a two-run shot. That 2-0 advantage stayed true until the Spartans (5-4) scored three times in the fifth and sixth. Washington threatened in the seventh with a pair of tallies, but couldn’t breakthrough in the end. Patterson finished 2-for-3 with the two RBI while Ethan Zieglowsky and Kole Williams also had two knocks. Zeke Slagel tossed 4 1/3 innings giving up one run on three hits and striking out three. 

The Demons are now 1-1 and they open Southeast Conference play tomorrow hosting Burlington for a double dip.