The West Central high school baseball team rallied late in the game for a 12-6 home win over Hanson/Bridgewater-Emery (HBE) on Friday, April 24th.
Each team put a run on the board in the first inning. The second inning was scoreless, but HBE scored four times in the top of the third for a 5-1 lead. They would add another run in the top of the fifth to extend their lead to 6-1.
West Central would put together a big rally in the bottom of the fifth. Nick Lorang had an RBI sacrifice fly out. JT Steckey and Carson Johnson followed with back-to-back RBI singles to make the score 6-4. Hayden Whiting tied the game with a two-run single. CJ Den Boer put West Central ahead, 8-6, wiith a two run single. The West Central rally continued into the bottom of the sixth. Gunnar Alfson scored on a wild pitch for a 9-6 score. Steckley also scored on a wild pitch, and Taten Van Overbeke drove home two with a single to extend the lead to 12-6.
Den Boer had three hits, including a double, and two RBIs. Van Overbeke finished with two hits and two RBIs. Whiting added a single and two RBIs. Steckley and Johnson each had a single and an RBI. Eli Koehn also had a hit. Alfson and Lorang each had an RBI.
Ashton Gebhard pitched 2 1/3 innings and allowed five runs, four earned, on two hits and five walks with two strikeouts. Johnson tossed 2 2/3 innings and allowed one earned run on two hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Den Boer also pitched two innings walking two and striking out two.
