Jr. High Baseball
Raiders lose Twin County tourney opener to PBL
by Dennis Ping
September 01, 2010
The young Raiders played PBL better Tuesday than they did on Monday, but the result ended up the same with an 11-4 loss. T-P lost 16-6 in 6 innings on Monday. Tri-Point only trailed 3-2 after 3 innings, but PBL hit them with a 6 run 4th inning to pull away.
Tim Crouch started on the hill for T-P and lasted 3 1/3 innings. He gave up only 3 hits, but uncharacteristically walked 5 while pitching. In all, Crouch gave up 9 runs,but only 5 were earned as Tri-Point's defense hurt themselves as they committed 7 errors on the day. Jacob Bruner also pitched, going the final 2 2/3 innings. Bruner allowed 3 hits, 2 runs (1 earned), no walks and 1 strikeout.
Tri-Point's offense was not bad as it bashed out 9 hits, but the Raiders could never get the big hit to put them back in the game. The Raiders left the bases loaded in each of the last 3 innings. Hitting leaders for T-P were Austin Wooton with a perfect 3 for 3 on the day. Zach Sunday and Jake Dulek each had 2 hits with each recording a double. Tim Crouch and Kyle Robinson had one hit each with Robinson's being a double.
Tri-Point returns to action on Thursday at Watseka in the Tourney, playing host Watseka at 2 pm.
