The West Central High School club baseball team won two more games on Tuesday, May 17th.  The two wins pushed their winning streak to eight games.  The last loss came against Dell Rapids on April 24th.

West Central 7, Flandreau/Chester 1

Two runs in the bottom of the first inning was enough, but West Central took a 7-1 win over Flandreau/Chester at home.

Jack Linneman got the scoring going with a two-run single in the first inning.  Grafton Stroup scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the third for a 3-0 lead.  Flandreau/Chester scored their lone run in the top of the fourth.  Stroup had an RBI single, and Caden Alfson had an RBI double in the bottom of the fifth inning.  Stroup added another RBI hit in the sixth inning.

Stroup had three hits and two RBIs.  Alfson had a double and an RBI.  Linneman finished with a hit and an RBI.  Derek Renken had a single, and Zach Madsen had an RBI.  Andrew Zimmer pitched all seven innings allowing an earned run on four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.

West Central 6, Garretson 1

Braden Herr threw a no-hitter while striking out 10 batters in a 6-1 win for West Central.  The run scored by Garretson came in the top of the first inning and was unearned due to an error.

West Central took the lead in the bottom of the second inning.  Logan Maras reached on an error that scored Camden McDonald.  Gavin Koch followed that with an RBI single.  Alfson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth, and Madsen had an RBI sacrifice fly to make the score 4-1.  Koch had an RBI sacrifice fly in the sixth inning, and Duece Sherrard followed with an RBI single.

Sherrard had three hits and an RBI.  Koch had two hits and two RBIs.  McDonald finished with a double.  Stroup, Brodie Herr, Ben Sebert, and Maras all had hits.  Aflson and Madsen each had an RBI.

Playing in their second game of the evening, West Central scored six runs in the first three innings which was enough to defeat the Mt Vernon/Plankinton/Corsica-Stickney (MVPCS) Padres on Monday, May 16th.

Zach Madsen drove home the first run in the bottom of the first inning with a single to right field.  The Trojans scored two more runs in the bottom of the second on a two-run double by Caden Alfson. 

MVPCS cut the lead to 3-2 after scoring two times in the top of the third inning, but West Central’s offense scored three times in the bottom of the inning.  Ben Sebert brought home a run with a single.  Grafton Stroup then added a two-run double to push the lead to 6-2.  Those were the last runs scored in the game.

Stroup had four hits, including a double, and two RBIs.  Alfson finished with two hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Madsen and Sebert both had singles with an RBI.  Brodie Herr pitched 4 1/3 innings without allowing a hit while striking out four to earn the win.  Madsen pitched 2 2/3 innings and allowed two earned runs on two hits with three walks and three strikeouts.

West Central scored three runs in the final two innings to get a come-from-behind walk-off win over Tri-Valley on Monday, May 16th in Humboldt.

Neither team scored through the first three innings of play.  Tri-Valley scored both of their runs in the top of the fourth inning.  With two outs in the inning, Carter Sorenson hit a two-run double scoring Nathan Madison and Connor Christensen.

West Central cut the lead in half in the bottom of the sixth inning when Zach Madsen hit an RBI double scoring Grafton Stroup.  The score remained 2-1 heading into the seventh inning.  After Tri-Valley failed to add any more runs in their half of the seventh, West Central put together a one-out rally.  Ben Sebert reached on an error.  Gavin Koch followed with a single.  Camden McDonald hit a double that scored Sebert to tie the game.  Duece Sherrard drove home Koch with a single to center field to win the game.

Sorenson had two hits, one a double, with two RBIs for Tri-Valley.  Riley Carlson had two singles.  Christensen and Madison also each had a single in the game.  Kaden Egger pitched 6 1/3 innings giving up three runs, two earned, on seven hits while striking out six.

For the West Central Trojans, McDonald had two hits, one a double, and an RBI.  Sherrard also had two hits and an RBI.  Madsen had a double and an RBI.  Jack Linneman and Koch each had a single as well.