WP Struggles in Loss to Mac-Hi

PRESCOTT - The Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers dropped a solo affair Tues­day afternoon-the Tigers first game in over two weeks-11-1 to Mac-Hi of Milton-Freewater, Ore. The Tiger loss was only its third of the season, and first by a 10-run margin.

WP starter Dalton Estes set the Pioneers down in order in the first inning, but gave up two runs in the sec­ond on a 2-RBI single by Mac-Hi second baseman Blake Yensen.

WP narrowed the gap to one run in the third. Centerfielder Nolen Allen and second baseman Kyle Dozier led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Allen came around to score when Mac-Hi shortstop Dylan Shuler made the second of his two errors in the inning.

Estes held Mac- Hi scoreless in the third, but the Pioneers picked up a pair of runs in both the fourth and fifth innings off reliever Talen Larsen. The floodgates opened up on the Tigers in the final frame of the 10-run rule shortened contest. The Pios plated five runs, batting around the order, to end it in the sixth.

"It was a little sloppy as far as our pitching needed to be," WP coach Dustin Snedigar said. "We weren't able to get ahead of the bat­ters like we needed to."

"They got guys on and they scored. Our timing was a little off," Snedigar continued. "It looked like we'd been off for a couple weeks which we have been."

Mac-Hi pitcher Saul Ortiz held the Tigers to just the two third inning hits by Allen and Dozier. The Pioneers, meanwhile, pounded out nine hits led by catcher Tavis Hodgen's 3-for-3 afternoon.

The Tigers fell to 8-3 on the year with the loss, their league record static at 3-1. WP's league schedule resumes on Saturday in Endicott against-wait for this amalgamation-St. John-Endicott-Lacrosse- Washtucna-Kahlotus.

" We've got a big double-header Saturday against St. John," Snedigar said. "We've got work to do."

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