The West Central High School baseball team won their third game in a row with an 11-2 victory over Baltic on Wednesday, May 4th in Baltic.

West Central scored the first nine runs of the game.  The first two game in the top of the first inning.  Caden Alfson and Andrew Zimmer both had RBI singles.  Three more runs scored in the top of the third.  Two of those came on a two-run home run by Zach Madsen.  Gavin Koch walked with the bases loaded to give West Central a 7-0 lead.

Four more runs were scored in the top of the fifth for the Trojans.  Duece Sherrard had an RBI single.  Grafton Stroup followed with an RBI single.  Alfson added an RBI single with two outs in the inning, and Jack Linneman reached on an error which scored the fourth run of the inning.

Baltic was able to get on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning.  They added another run in the bottom of the sixth.  West Central scored two more times in the game as well, getting single runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

Stroup finished with three hits, one a double, and an RBI.  Alfson collected two hits and two RBIs.  Sherrard had two hits and an RBI.  Madsen finished with a home run and two RBIs.  Zimmer had a hit and an RBI.  Linneman had two hits, and Logan Maras and Ben Sebert both had a hit.  Koch added an RBI.

Braden Herr pitched six innings allowing two runs, one earned, on three hits and four walks with five strikeouts.  Stroup pitched an inning allowing a hit and a walk.

The West Central High School club baseball team scored seven runs in the first three innings as they held for an 11-7 win over Lennox on Friday, April 29th.

The first two runs for West Central came with two outs in the top of the first inning.  Duece Sherrard scored on a wild pitch, and Caden Alfson hit an RBI single.  The Trojans added four more runs in the top of the second.  Gavin Koch had an RBI triple, Sherrard followed with an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch, and Alfson added his second RBI single.  Zach Madsen had an RBI single in the top of the third, and West Central lead 7-0 heading into the bottom of the third.

Lennox scored three times in their half of third inning making the score 7-3.  Jack Linneman had an RBI single in the top of the fourth inning for West Central, and the score remained 8-3 until the bottom of the sixth inning.  Lennox scored two more times, and the Trojans led 8-5 going into the final inning.  West Central scored three more times in the top of the seventh.  Lennox scored two runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but the rally ended there.

Alfson had three hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Sherrard also had three hits and an RBI.  Madsen had two hits and two RBIs.  Grafton Stroup and Ben Sebert both had two singles.  Koch had a triple and RBI.  Linneman had a hit and an RBI.  Andrew Zimmer and Logan Maras both had singles as well.  Madsen pitched five innings to earn the win giving up three runs, all unearned, on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts.  Stroup pitched two innings allowing four runs, one earned, on one hit and four walks with three strikeouts.

The West Central High School club baseball team got back into the win column and ended a short two-game losing streak with an 8-5 win over McCook Central on Wednesday, April 27th.  West Central scored six of their right runs in the first two innings and held the lead for the win to improve to 3-2 on the year.

Grafton Stroup drove home the first run for West Central in the top of the first inning on an RBI sacrifice fly to center field.  McCook Central tied the game, 1-1, after scoring a run in the bottom of the first.  West Central’s offense scored five times in the top of the second.  Logan Maras started the inning with a single and scored two batters later on an RBI groundout by Ben Sebert.  Braden Herr scored on an error to push the lead to 3-1.  Gavin Koch scored on a passed ball, and then Andrew Zimmer had an RBI single.  Dalton Mulder followed with an RBI single, and West Central led 6-1.  McCook Central only got one run back in their half of the inning, and West Central led 6-2 after two innings of play.

Zach Madsen pushed the lead back to five runs after an RBI line drive single scoring Duece Sherrard.  McCook Central, however, cut the lead down to two runs after a three-run bottom of the fifth inning.  The score remained 7-5 until the top of the seventh inning.  Madsen had an RBI groundout scoring Koch for a big insurance run for West Central.

Sherrard had three hits in the game.  Zimmer, Mulder, and Koch all had two singles and an RBI each.  Madsen had a hit and two RBIs.  Stroup and Sebert each had a single and RBI.  Maras finished with a hit as well.  Zimmer pitched 4 2/3 innings allowing five runs, three earned, on five hits and five walks with two strikeouts.  Stroup pitched the final 2 1/3 innings without allowing a hit with two walks and three strikeouts.