Boone County — Everything was looking good for the Western Boone baseball team Thursday night when the Stars hosted Tri-West.
The Stars had just tied the game in the bottom of the fourth inning and starter Andrew Jarrett had been pitching well. Then, it all came apart.
Tri-West scored 14 total runs in the fifth and sixth innings and defeated Western Boone 18-10.
“The wheels just fell off,” Western Boone head coach Rich Schelsky said. “I estimate that we gave up at least 12 or 13 unearned runs. If you take away those unearned runs we definitely win the game.”
The one positive for Western Boone is that they continued to play for all seven innings.
Needing two runs to extend the game into the seventh inning, the Stars plated four runs in the frame.
“Three or four weeks ago we probably would have been 10-run ruled in that game,” Schelsky said. “We had enough inside of us, enough intestinal fortitude and enough pride to hang around and score three runs in the sixth to force the seventh. But, we have to make some plays.”
Western Boone trailed 4-2 in the bottom of the third inning when Levi Remley scored on a wild pitch to cut the deficit to 4-3. After Jarrett escaped a bases loaded jam in the top of the fourth.
Luke Wethington started the bottom half of the inning with a double and then scored on Tyler Squibb's single. Both Jarrett and Josh Anderson tried to execute sacrifice bunts, but both were unsuccessful — including Anderson’s turning into an inning-ending double play.
Ironically, it was a bunt attempt by Tri-West that turned the game around. With one away, Chandler Moleta singled. Tri-West attempted a sacrifice and got the bunt down.
Wethington got to the ball, but threw it into right field, allowing Moleta to score and having the bunter advance to third.
“It is a 4-4 game and we have a guy on first base with no body out and we didn't execute twice,” Schelsky said. “They come up in the next inning and have a runner on first with one out, they execute the bunt perfectly and we throw it into right field and scored a bunch of runs. The rest is history and the whells just fell off. That is the whole game in a nutshell, just execution. I am not made at them by any means. It is just frustrating and they are frustrating because they know the mistakes being made are correctable. If they weren’t correctable then we would be in panic mode.”
See Friday's Lebanon Reporter for the complete story.
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