W-M Tigerscots Tame WP Tigers At Home, 9-2

PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers baseball team wasn't enough to keep up with the Weston-McEwen Tigerscots and lost, 9-2, at home on Tuesday afternoon.

" They weren't ready to play," said WP head coach Dustin Snedigar.

Snedigar said his team had a couple of sloppy innings and failed to capitalize on a couple of decent plays.

It was a sunny day in Prescott, but it was awfully breezy, with wind whipping against the player's uniforms.

The score was held at 0-0 all the way through the third inning, when WP's Zach Bartlow and Brice Paxson brought in the only runs for the Tigers for the whole game.

The Tigerscots had a pretty good day at the plate, while it seemed WP couldn't buy a run, and even had trouble getting on base.

The Tigerscots showed their stripes at the top of the third with a nice double from their first batter up.

David Herzog pitched most of the game for the Tigers and the catcher was Tucker Alleman. Alleman made some solid catches in the game and you could sure see the frustration on his face later in the game when his team couldn't add any points to the board.

As the game trudged on, WP kept making defensive errors and got caught sleeping in the field a couple of times, Snedigar said.

In the fourth inning, the Tigerscots were still ahead, 3-2, and WP put up batter after batter without getting any runs in.

In the fifth, the score was up to 4-2, Tigerscots, and WP was plagued with pitching errors while Weston-McEwen continued to capitalize on some great hits.

After Herzog received a pep talk from Snedigar and Alleman, he threw a strike on his next pitch. But, it wasn't enough to stop the Tigerscots who soon made a great hit and brought in two Weston-McEwen runners, bringing the score up to 6-2, and widening the gap.

Chris Monzano and Chance Leroue Were put in after Herzog to pitch the rest of the game.

Regular WP starting pitcher Zach Bartlow was covering third base on Tuesday to help strengthen other pitchers, Snedigar said.

But even the change in pitchers wasn't enough to close the gap on the scoreboard. An outfielder error allowed a Tigerscot double in the top of the seventh despite a valiant effort by Alleman to tag a runner out at home base.

With low spirits for the home team, the game was called after the seventh inning with Tigerscots victorious, 9-2.

"We're better at the plate than we were today," Snedigar said.

The head coach said his pitchers threw well, but the rest of the team simply didn't back the pitchers up defensively, he said.

Bartlow and Paxson made the only two WP runs of the day and Manzano and Dalton Estes both scored the most WP hits with three each.

The Tigers will next play on Saturday in Prescott against Liberty Christian at 11 a.m.