WP: Win 1, Lose 2

PRESCOTT - After Saturday's doubleheader loss against Asotin, the Tigers were all too happy chalking up a 6-4 win Monday against Weston-McEwen.

WP scored two runs in the first inning, two in the third and two in the sixth. Even though the Tigerscots responded with a rally in the fourth, they could not overcome the Tigers' twopoint lead in the top of the seventh.

As a result, WP improved its record to 4-2 overall with Monday's non-league win, which helped the Tigers put their weekend loss behind them.

"We weren't real sharp like we wanted to be," head coach Dustin Snedigar said after the Saturday game on the ball fields at the base of the spectacular Snake River gorge. "We need to sustain longer innings.

The Tigers went down against the Panthers 3-0 in the first game and 7-3 in the second, largely succumbing to the exceptional pitching of Asotin's Jackson Webb.

"He's one of the toughest pitchers in the league," Snedigar said. "He kept us in check."

The Panthers scored two runs in the first inning with pitcher Zach Bartlow taking some time to find his footing in the game, keeping Asotin to only one more point in the sixth inning.

The left-handed Webb left little for the Tigers to go on, limiting WP to two scoreless hits from Bartlow and Tre Brannock, while striking out 14 batters.

WP did better in the second game. Thanks to two Bartlow steals and a hit from Joe Purdin, the Tigers scored first in the first inning, though they were quickly eclipsed by 5 runs from the Panthers against Purdin in the bottom of the first.

" We walked a lot of guys," Snedigar said. "When you do that, they're going to score."

Purdin settled in and thanks to solid defense from Brannock and David Brock in the outfield, Matt Hamilton on first, Purdin on the mound and short stop Justin Zuger, the Tiger limited further Pather runs to one in the third and one in the sixth.

The Tigers looked like they were going to stage a comeback in the fifth with hits from T.J. Hofer bringing in Brock and Bartlow paving the way home for Hofer.

"When we hit it, we hit it hard," Snedigar said. "But we didn't get the hits we needed."

Snedigar replaced Purdin, who threw 50 pitches in the first inning and 50 more in the following four, with Dalton Estes.