The Delphi baseball team was in action Monday evening against Hoosier Conference foe Tipton. Tipton out slugged the Oracles 17-6.

Kyle Bender picked up the loss for the Oracles on the mound. AJ Beckett and Ralph Overman threw some relief for the Oracles. On the offensive side DCHS was led by Micheal Myers, Tanner Cripe and Dustin Oliver with two hits each. That was not enough as the Blue Devils pounded out 14 hits.

The Oracles competed over the weekend in the Northwestern Baseball Invitational. The invitational had host Northwestern (ranked 2 in 2A), Boone Grove (ranked 3 in 2A) and Northfield (ranked 5 in 2A), along with Delphi. In game one, the Oracles played Northwestern. The Tigers had too much power at the plate. The Oracles gave up 14 runs in five innings. Beckett got the loss on the mound. The Delphi team only had five hits in game one, losing 14-1 in five innings.

In game two the Oracles had to play Boone Grove, who lost a 11-10 thriller in the first round to Northfield in extra innings. The Oracles came out and played hard, but lost 6-1. Andrew Cebulla gave up the loss on the mound. Coy Pennington had two of his team's four hits. The Oracles had opportunities to score more runs but could not get the big clutch hit to get things rolling.

The Oracles traveled to West Lafayette to play the Hoosier Conference leaders last week in the first of two games, losing 8-1. The game started well for the Oracles. Myers had a lead off single. Andrew Flora bunted him to second. Myers scored on Oliver's ground out. The Oracles were up 1-0 after the first. Then West Side scored three in the third on Oracle fielding errors. Bender got the loss for the Oracles on the mound. Myers and Flora had a couple of hits a piece for the Oracles.

In the second game, the Red Devils were again way too tough for the Oracles, beating them 20-6 in six innings. The Devils scored three in the first on a three-run home run. After that, Oracle pitcher Cebulla only allowed four hits through four innings. Fielding errors killed the Oracles. The score was 10-2 in the fourth when the Oracle bats came alive. The Oracles came back to trail 10- 6. The Lafayette squad erupted for ten runs over the next two innings. Myers, Matt Lewis and Flora all had two hits for the Oracles.

The Oracles will be in action again Wednesday to play the Tipton team in the second game of conference play. The Oracles are now 6-15 on the season and 2-4 in Hoosier Conference play.