The White River baseball team traveled to East Valley High School in Yakima Saturday and beat East Valley and lost to Sehome.
WR 7 East Valley 6
WR 2 Sehome 5
Coach Mike Williams summary:
Come from behind victory in game one. Trailing 6-4 entering top of 7, Mitchell Webster 6-3 1 out. Trent Buchanan walked, Sean Klapperich doubled, Riley Johnson flew out to center, 2 outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd. Hunter Ford singles scoring Trent and Sean. Hunter steals 2b, pinch hitter Joe Lacy doubles in Hunter.
Bottom of 7th Sean Klapperich takes over pitching duties- Mason Hill started and went 3, Trent went 3… Sean got a K, a double, and k, k to end the game.
Buchanan got the win.
Hunter Ford was 2-3 with two RBIs.
Game two
We turned it into a spring training game. Five pitchers split up the game on the bump. Klapperich one inning, Cole Richey two innings, Dylan Sutherland two innings, Braden Fjeld one inning and Mason Harris one inning. We lost 5-2 however all 14 kids played, we got lots of looks at new people joining the varsity team this season.
Webster had 3-3 with a walk, single, double and triple. Hunter Ford picked up two more hits.
“It was nice to play two games and a bonus picking up a win vs East Valley, but we are all not satisfied with our execution. We did some things that are uncharacteristic of our program, lots of walks by our pitchers (four) but more importantly we were pitching behind in counts most of the day. Also, we made a lot of physical and mental errors…6 errors on defense in the two games, missed signs, poor decisions on offense and defense.”
“We are confident that come May 5 (last regular season game of the year) we will be a better team than we are right now. Looking for some growth”
