PEORIA, Ill. - The Milwaukee baseball team has been tied or been in the lead in the eighth inning of each of its past four games, but has just one win to show for it after Bradley University put together a late-inning uprising that sent it to an 11-5 victory Saturday afternoon at Dozer Park.
 
The Panthers (8-19) led the Braves (12-15) by a score of 1-0 early and 3-2 in the seventh, but had no answer for the eight runs that the home team put together in the eighth inning to claim the victory.
 
"That was another game where we had a bunch of opportunities early on to jump way out and could not capitalize," Milwaukee head coach Scott Doffek said.
 
Elijah Goodman started and went the first 7.0 innings, allowing three runs on just three hits, while walking three and striking out three.
 
"Goody (Goodman) was not sharp, but he competed and gave us a chance," Doffek said. "Obviously, heading into the eighth tied, you feel like you have a good chance, but we did not execute pitches at all out of the bullpen. If we want a different result, we need to handle the process much better. That's our challenge."
 
Alex Fischer (0-2) suffered the loss.
 
Chris Kelly had a career-day, going 4-for-5 with three runs batted in. No other player had more than one hit (10 total hits for the team). Mike Ferri and Daulton Varsho also had RBI's.
 
Milwaukee grabbed a 1-0 lead before Goodman took the mound, scoring on an infield single by Varsho in the first. The Panthers doubled that lead in the fifth with a two-out rally. Cole Heili singled to left, went to third on a single by Billy Quirke and scored on a base hit by Kelly.
 
Luke Shadid made it a new game with a two-run shot in the bottom of the fifth but UWM had an answer – again with two outs and nobody on base, this time in the seventh. Quirke reached on an error, Kelly singled and a double by Ferri made it 3-2.
 
Bradley quickly responded, sending the second pitch of its half of the seventh over the fence to again knot the score at 3-3.
 
The eighth inning rally that followed included two walks, a hit batter and a pair of home runs among six hits.
 
Kelly knocked in a pair with the bases loaded in the Panther ninth, but that was all Milwaukee could muster in the last-ditch rally.

The series concludes with a single game tomorrow, starting at 12 p.m.