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.