West Central Blue 14U won their fifth straight game to start their season on Tuesday, June 7th. West Central defeated Baltic 13-7 in Baltic.
West Central used three big innings for their win. They scored five times right away in the top of the first inning. Anthony Lanham had an RBI ground out for the first run. Hayes Cain scored on a wild pitch. Dylen Bettcher and Zach Lorang both had an RBI singles. Z. Lorang later scored on an error in the big first inning. Baltic scored a run in the bottom of first inning to make the score 5-1.
Both teams scored a run in the second inning. Lanham had another RBI ground out in the top of the inning. Baltic scored their run on an error. Baltic then cut the lead to 6-4 with two runs in the bottom of the third.
West Central took control again with four runs in the top of the fourth. Jack Sebert reached on an error which scored Cain. Ashton Gebbhard had an RBI infield single, Z. Lorang scored on a wild pitch, and Nick Lorang had an RBI single to push the West Central lead to 10-4. Baltic scored three times in the bottom of the sixth, but West Central put the game away with three more runs in the top of the seventh. Gavin Dehaven had an RBI ground out, Alex Siemonsma scored on a passed ball, and Sebert was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Cain finished with three hits in the game. N. Lorang had two hits and two RBIs. Z. Lorang had two hits, one a double, and an RBI. Gebhard also had two hits and an RBI. Lanham finished with a single and two RBIs. Sebert and Bettcher had a hit and an RBI. Siemonsma had a hit, and Dehaven had an RBI. Siemonsma pitched two innings and allowed four earned runs on three hits and four walks. Sebert pitched two innings giving up three runs, one earned, on four hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Gebhard pitched three innings and allowed just one hit with four strikeouts.