North Bellmore – The Rebels split their double-header with the LIAS Sharks Sunday at Gunther Field, winning the first game 8-4 and losing the second 6-3.

After rainy weather caused the games to be moved from Saturday morning to a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the Rebels played mostly ugly baseball.

Both games featured too many walks from Rebels pitching and dire lack of Rebels hitting.

To their credit, the Rebels limped along well enough in game one to carry a 2-1 lead throughout most of it. LIAS fought back, though, and, with a couple of key hits in the bottom of the sixth, forced extra innings.

The Rebels regained the lead, 3-2, in the top half of the seventh only to reliquish it again in the bottom half when LIAS tied it, 3-3.

With the two-hour time limit looming, the Rebels finally opened things up in the eighth scoring another go ahead run and tacking on four more. The Sharks scratched out one more run in the bottom of the eighth but Eric 4 put out the fire.

In game two the Sharks took an early lead and never looked back. The kids from North Bellmore North Merrick couldn’t or wouldn’t reach down for something extra.

The Sharks drew a lead-off walk in all six innings.

While the scoreboard often suggested the game was close and the Rebels had the tying run on base on a couple of occasions, NBNM could not get a clutch hit. Hits, in general, were scarce and by the time it was over the Rebels had gone down without much of a fight.

The Rebels travel to Three Villages Saturday morning to face the Yankees.