TIPTON - The Tipton baseball team is in need of a victory as they head to the nal week of the regular season. The Tigers played four games last week, three of which were River Valley Conference games, and finished with Class 1A state-ranked No. 4 Calamus-Wheat- land. The Tigers have lost six games in a row over the last two weeks. The Tigers are 10- 14 heading to the nal week of the regular season. The Tigers will host English Valleys and Iowa Valley and travel to Lisbon this week. Tipton will host a Class 2A district game for the second straight season. The Tigers will host Iowa City Regina in the second of two games this Saturday. The rst game will have Durant and West Liberty at 5 p.m.
Tigers Fall Behind Early, Try To Rally Late In Cal-Wheat Loss WHEATLAND — The Tipton baseball team played the No. 4 ranked Class 1A Calamus- Wheatland Warriors tough in their non-conference game last week on the road. The Tigers fell behind early but tried to rally late, before falling 7-3.
The Tigers enter the last week of the regular season 10-15 overall.
Calamus-Wheatland scored two runs in the rst and three runs in the second inning to take an early 5-0 lead. Tipton scored their rst run of the game in the top of the third on an RBI single by Dylan Mente, scoring Kael Jauron. Tipton cut the Warriors lead to two runs, 5-3 with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth. Tipton sent seven batters to the plate in the half inning. Calamus- Wheatland plated two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to set the score at its nal of 7-3.
Nick Howell took the loss after 2 2/3 innings of work. He started and gave up ve runs on ve hits and walked one. Brady Connor pitched 3 1/3 innings of relief and gave up two runs on one hit. He struck out two and walked one.
Tipton had 10 hits in the game and three Tigers had multi-hit games. Dyland Mente, Nile Schuett, and Kael Jauron each had two hits. Luke Becker, Trent Pelzer, and Connor Hermiston all had hits in the game. Tipton had three walks in the game with Hermiston, Schuett, and Connor each reaching base via walks.
Comets Score Three Runs In 7th To Beat Tipton
BELLEVUE — The Tipton baseball team lost a 9-8 ball game in eight innings to RVC North foe Bellevue in Bellevue last Wednesday, July 3. The loss to the Comets snapped a four-game win streak by THS over the RVC North Division competition. The Tiger's loss was there fth in a row.
Tipton scored first with four runs in the top of the third to break a scoreless tie. Tipton had RBI singles from Luke Becker, Trent Pelzer, and Nile Schuett in the inning. Bellevue would score two runs in the fth and four runs in the sixth to take a 6-4 lead to the nal inning. Tipton however, would score twice in the top of the seventh to tie the game at 6. Two-out RBI singles by Becker and Pelzer accounted for the tying runs. Tipton held Bellevue in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings. In the top of the eighth, Con- nor Hermiston drew a lead- o walk and promptly stole second. Nile Schuett walked. Hermiston went to third and both would later score to give Tipton an 8-6 lead. Bellevue countered in the bottom of the eighth, scoring three runs to capture the game by one-run.
Kayden Rezac got the start and turned in his longest outing this season of ve innings. Rezac struck out two, walked six and gave up two runs on ve hits. Carter Hill, Trent Pel- zer, and Carson Charves also pitched. Pelzer took the loss.
Tipton had 11 hits in the game with three players collecting multi-hit games. Trent Pelzer was 4-for-4 with a run scored and two stolen bases. Dylan Mente and Luke Becker each had two hits and scored twice. Mente had two stolen bases and Becker had one. Jacob Tischuk, Nile Schuett, and Kael Jauron each had hits in the game.
Bears Sweep Tigers In Doubleheader
WEST BRANCH — The Tip- ton baseball team fell twice at West Branch last week in their final regular-season doubleheader. The Bears beat Tipton 13-10 in game one and 11-1 in game two.
In game one, the Tigers led 10-1 after two innings but watched as the Bears chipped away at the Tigers lead and outscored them 12-3 to capture the win.
West Branch scored six runs in the third to trim the Tiger lead to 10-7 and got within one run in the fourth inning, push- ing two runs across the plate to set the score at 10-9. That score stood until the bottom of the fourth inning when the Bears scored four runs to set the score at its nal of 13-10.
Luke Becker started and pitched ve innings. He gave up nine unearned runs on 11 hits. He struck out two and walked one batter. Carson Charves and Trent Pelzer each pitched in relief. Pelzer took the loss.
Tipton had 15 hits in the game and had four players with multi-hit games. The Tigers top-3 hitters in their line-up were a combined 8-for-14 with two doubles and ve RBI’s. Trent Pelzer was 4-for-5 with
a double, two runs scored and three RBI’s. Connor Hermis- ton, Luke Becker, and Dylan Mente each had two hits. Mente, Becker, Kael Jauron, and Nile Schuett each had RBI’s. Hermiston had three RBI’s. Jacob Tischuk, Jauron, Cole Syring, Schuett and Carter Hill all had hits in the game.
In game two, West Branch won 11-1 in ve innings. Cole Syring took the loss after giving up 11 runs in 4 1/3 innings. Jacob Tischuk had a double and RBI and Luke Becker and Dylan Mente each had hits.
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