West Central Gold 14U split a pair of games on back-to-back games on Wednesday, June 22nd and Thursday, June 23rd. On Wednesday West Central got a win over Baltic, but took a lost against Madison Black on Thursday.
West Central Gold 18, Baltic 4
A third inning rally led to an 18-4 win for West Central as the scored 11 times in the inning. Baltic scored a run in the top of the first, but West Central got two runs in the bottom of the inning. After Baltic scored five times in the top of the third for a 4-2 lead, West Central responded with 11 in the bottom of the inning and five more in the bottom of the fourth.
West Central only had three hits total in the game taking advantage of eight Baltic errors. CJ DenBoer had two hits, including a triple, and an RBI. Hayden Whiting had the other hit and two RBIs. Bubba Kono, Connor Mebius, and Jacob Mallinger all had two RBIs. Karson Olson also had an RBI.
Olson pitched three innings and allowed four runs, three earned, on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Mebius pitched an inning and allowed a walk while recording three strikeouts.
Madison Black 12, West Central Gold 2
Madison scored three runs in the bottom of the first and scored in every inning for a 12-2 win over West Central on Thursday.
Zach Lorang scored on an error in the top of the second to cut the lead to 3-1. Madison got another run in the bottom of the second. Z. Lorang added an RBI single in the top of the third to make the score 4-2, but Madison got five runs in the bottom of the third and three more in the bottom of the fourth.
West Central was led by Z. Lorang with a hit and an RBI. DenBoer and Nick Lorang both had a hit as well. DenBoer pitched two innings and allowed four runs, none of them earned, on two hits and a walk with give strikeouts. Kono pitched an inning and allowed five runs, two earned, on three hits and three walks with a strikeout. Jericho Klein pitched 1/3 of an inning allowing three unearned runs on two hits with a strikeout.