The Lorain County Ironmen’s three errors led to three unearned runs, and snapped their three-game winning streak on Wednesday night, falling to the Slippery Rock Sliders, 4-2 in Pennsylvania. The three-game winning streak was their third streak of the sort this season.

The Ironmen jumped out to an early lead in the first inning when Amherst’s Evan Melendez singled and advanced to second base on a throwing error by the shortstop. Melendez moved to third when Westlake’s Matt McAllester grounded out. He came in to score when Stephen Hagen hit an RBI ground out.

Melendez then led off the fifth inning with another single and advanced to second when the right fielder kicked the ball. He then scored on Billy Urban’s RBI single.

Aaron Hilt started and pitched 5 2/3 innings of strong baseball before the errors started coming. Hilt allowed five hits, walked three and struck out four. He allowed three runs, only one was earned.

Hilt was relieved by Bay’s Brian Tariska. Tariska pitched 1 1/3 innings, allowing two hits, one unearned run and one walk. Jeff Kotler finished the game by throwing an inning. He gave up one hit and struck out one.