The Tigers ended the week with a 15-5 win at North Cedar on another Luke Becker win. Becker improved to 4-0 in his last four starts and helped the Tigers win three of their four games last week. Becker pitched 5 1/3 innings in the win at North Cedar while surrendering eight hits and
five unearned runs. Becker helped out with the offense too, going 3-for-5 with three RBI’s. Kayden Rezac pitched a scoreless 1 2/3 innings in relief. He did not allow a hit and struck out one.
Tipton had 16 hits in the game with six players getting multi-hit games. Dylan Mente, Trent Pelzer, Kael Jauron, Cole Syring and Peyton Gaertner each had two hits. Mente had three RBI’s while Syring and Gaertner each had two RBI’s.
The Tigers scored three or more runs in four innings in the game. Tipton opened the scoring with a 3-run second inning. The Tigers sent eight batters to the plate in the inning. Jacob Tischuk led o
the third with a walk and later scored on a wild pitch for the game’s rst run. Back-to-back singles by Connor Hermiston and Kael Jauron led to two more runs. Each would score, along with Tischuk to help Tip- ton to a 3-0 lead. The Tigers built a 7-0 lead with a four-run top of the third after nearly batting around, again send- ing eight batters to the plate. Jacob Tischuk, Cole Syring and Connor Hermiston all had singles in the inning and each scored a run. Trent Pelzer also scored after reaching base on a North Cedar error.
North Cedar would score single runs in each of the third and fourth innings to trim the Tigers lead to 7-2. The Knights scored on a hit batsman in the third when Jaxon Sander was plunked with the bases loaded, and an Ethan Sahr RBI single in the fourth that scored Sander accounted for the runs.
The Tigers would take command of the game in the top of the fifth, scoring ve runs to take a 12-2 lead. RBI hits in the inning came from a Carter Hill double and singles from Dylan Mente, Luke Becker, and Connor Hermiston. North Cedar prevented the game from ending early by the 10-run mercy rule, scoring three runs in the bottom of the fth to set the score at 12-5. The Tigers would respond with three runs in the top of the sixth to set the score at 15-5. North Cedar did not score in the sixth, ending the game early.
Ethan Sahr took the loss after starting and working 4 1/3 innings. He struck out three, walked three and gave up 11 runs on 11 hits. Tyler Thurston pitched 1 2/3 innings in relief. He struck out three, walked one and gave up four runs on five hits.
North Cedar had 12 hits in the game and had three players have multi-hit games. Sahr was 3-for-4 at the plate with a double while Brennen Kreel and Jaxon Sander each was 2-for-3 at the plate. Jacob Wagner, Devon Willis, Gage Walshire, Thurston, and Taden Lange all had hits. Thurston drove in a pair of runs while Sander, Willis, and Walshire each had one-RBI. Tyler Jackson and Wagner each reached base via walks.
Tigers Capture Second Shutout This Season With Postville Win
CEDAR RAPIDS — The Tipton baseball team got a special road game last Tuesday, playing at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids. The opponent was Postville. Postville was where current Tiger head baseball coach Troy Smock got his start teaching and coaching. There, the Tigers won, shutting out Postville 6-0. The win gave the Tigers a record of 2-1 in non-conference games this season.
Luke Becker was one of three Tiger pitchers to pitch in the game. Becker started and got the win after working three innings. He struck out one and walked one batter. He gave up one hit. Jacob Tischuk pitched two innings in relief and did not allow a run. Peyton Gaert- ner also pitched a scoreless inning in relief and struck out two batters.
Tipton scored in the bottom of the rst inning. Trent Pelzer reached on a two-out single and promptly stole second to get into scoring position. Pelzer then scored on a Carter Hill hit to give Tipton a 1-0 lead. The Tigers added two runs in the bottom of the third inning to take a 3-0 lead. THS sent six batters to the plate and had two hits in the inning. Tipton put the game away with a three-run fourth to make it three of the rst four innings that Tipton scored runs. Tip- ton nearly batted around in the inning and had three singles and three walks in the inning. Luke Becker, Connor Hermis- ton, and Carter Hill had hits in the inning.
Tipton had seven hits in the game. Tischuk led THS going 2-for-4 with a double and RBI. Trent Pelzer had a single, two RBI’s and two stolen bases. Carter Hill had an RBI single and Luke Becker drove in two runs. The Tigers had eight stolen bases in the game and drew four walks. Dylan Mente had two walks and two steals. Pelzer and Connor Hermiston each had two stolen bases.
Tigers Split With Comets In Two Exciting Home Games
TIPTON — The Tipton baseball team hosted West Liberty on Monday, June 17. The Tigers began a week with four games with a split a doubleheader with the Comets. Tipton won game one 5-4, and lost game two 7-6.
In game one, Tipton trailed 2-0 before pushing two runs across the plate in the bottom of the third. That score held until the seventh. There, West Liberty pushed two runs across the plate in the top of the inning to take a 4-2 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Tipton would win the game by scoring three runs to capture the one- run, 5-4 win.
Kael Jauron was the winning pitcher after working the seventh inning. He gave up two runs and walked one batter. Jauron pitched in relief of starter Cole Syring. Syring pitched six innings and gave up two runs. He scattered eight hits and struck out seven Comet batters.
Tipton had four hits in the game. Jauron was 2-for-4 with three RBI’s to lead THS. Dylan Mente and Luke Becker had the other hits. Tipton drew seven walks from ve di er- ent players in the game. Trent Pelzer was 0-for-1 at the plate but was on base three times via walks. Mente and Becker each score twice while Pelzer scored the other Tipton run.
In game two, the Tigers fell behind 7-0 after the Comets scored four runs in the top of the fourth. West Liberty began the game with three runs in the rst o of starter Kael Jauron. The Tigers mounted
a comeback in the bottom of the fifth inning with ve runs to trim the Comet lead to 7-5. Tipton batted around in the inning and had six hits including three doubles. Singles by Dylan Mente and Luke Becker led o the fth. Both scored on a two-out Cole Syring double. Connor Hermiston’s double scored Syring to set the score at 7-3. A Jacob Tischuk RBI single scored Hermiston and a double by Brady Connor scored Tischuk to set the score at 7-5.
Tipton got their leado batter on in the bottom of the seventh with the score still 7-5. West Liberty would get a double play to quickly get two outs. Later, the Tigers would push across one run with two outs, but as they tried to score the tying run, West Liberty made a defensive play to throw the runner out at home, ending the game.
Jauron took the loss after working one-inning. He gave up three runs on three hits and walked one batter. Kayden Rezac pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief. He struck out two, walked three and gave up three hits. Brady Connor pitched 1 1/3 innings in relief and did not give up a run. He gave up a hit, walked four and struck out one. Trent Pelzer made his rst varsity relief appearance and pitched a scoreless seventh and struck out two Comets.
Tipton had nine hits in the game with three players getting multi-hit games. Luke Becker, Connor Hermiston, and
Brady Connor each had two hits. Connor and Cole Syring each had two RBI’s and Dylan Mente had two of the three Tigers stolen bases.
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