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.