The Prairie Fire baseball team dropped two home Midwest Conference games on Tuesday, falling to Beloit by scores of 3-2 and 15-6. Now 4-21 overall and 2-6 in league play, Knox will host Monmouth for a doubleheader on Saturday, followed by a single game on Sunday.

In the opener, Knox trailed 1-0 early, but an unearned run in the third drew the Prairie Fire even. Beloit added a run in the fourth, but Owen Shannon's RBI groundout scored Aidan McMurtrie to tie the game. Beloit went ahead for good in the eighth, scoring the winning run on a sacrifice fly.

Tyler Kemp led the Knox offense with two hits, while Shannon and Clayton Rice each had an RBI.

Jacob Halseth pitched six innings of two-run, four-strikeout ball, getting a no-decision.

Turning to the second game, Knox took a 3-0 lead after two innings.

In the first, McMurtrie's two-run single scored Hayden Derlein and Nicholas Nitti. Building on that momentum, Knox struck again in the second as Thomas Wilmot's single scored Halseth.

However, Beloit responded with five runs in the fourth, two in the fifth, and three in the sixth. Knox answered with two in the seventh as Halseth doubled home Tyler Kemp and Derlein singled home Halseth. Nevertheless, Beloit scored six in the eighth, forcing the 10-run rule.

Halseth led Knox with four hits, two runs, and an RBI, while Nitti had two hits, and McMurtrie plated a pair.