WELLMAN — The Tipton baseball team won their second straight game on Thursday, June 18, beating 10th ranked Mid-Prairie 14-7. The Tigers are 2-1 with the win. The Golden Hawks were ranked highly by the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association. West Branch is also ranked in the top-10. The win is the second in as many seasons against a top-10 River Valley Conference team. The Tigers beat Cascade last year 4-3 on a walk-off Luke Becker hit to defeat the No. 7 Cougars.
Tipton jumped on the Golden Hawks early with a five-run top of the first inning. The Tigers sent ten batters to the plate including getting seven straight batters safely to base after the Golden Hawks got the first out of the game.
Tipton added to their lead in the top of the second inning, scoring three runs to take an 8-3 lead. Two more THS runs in the top of the third set the score at 10-3. It would equal the Tigers biggest lead in the game. Tipton led 12-7 after five innings and added a single run in both the top of the sixth and the top of the seventh to get to the 14-7 score.
Eight different Tigers scored a run in the game. The Tigers 2-4 hitters of Trent Pelzer, Nile Schuett, and Kael Jauron combined to go 7-for-13 with seven runs scored and four RBI’s. The Tigers were 10-for-11 in stolen base attempts in the game.
Tipton had two players with multi-hit games as the Tigers collected 12 hits as a team. Trent Pelzer and Nile Schuett each had three hits and a RBI. Pelzer scored three runs and Schuett two runs. Kael Jauron, Cole Syring, Carter Hill, Davis Webb, Caden Schmidt, and Kayden Rezac all had a hit and a RBI. Hill drove in two runs and had a double. Davis Webb and Elliot Cummins handled the pitching duty. Webb started and went four innings. He gave up six runs on three hits and struck out five. Cummins allowed one run on two his and struck out one batter.
Notes: The Tigers have averaged 13.6 hits a game in their first three games and 11.6 runs in those games. The Tigers have 24 stolen bases through their first three games including going 21-for-22 in their two wins. Through the first three games of the year, Trent Pelzer and Nile Schuett are tied for the most hits in the RVC South with eight. Also, Schuett leads the RVC South in RBI’s with seven and Pelzer with stolen bases with eight in the first three nights’ games.
Tigers Cruise To First Win, 18-2 At Central City
CENTRAL CITY — Two nights after losing at North Cedar in their season opener, the Tipton baseball team collected their first win of the 2020 season at Central City. There, the Tigers pounded out 21 hits and scored a whopping 18 runs to dispatch their opponents 18-2 in six innings to improve to 1-1. The Tigers scored runs in each of the six innings including three innings with three or more runs in them.
Kael Jauron started and got the win after working two innings and giving up no runs and only one hit over two innings. Peyton Gaertner pitched three games in relief and allowed two runs on three hits. The two Tiger pitchers each struck out three Central City batters.
Five Tipton players had multi-hit games. The Tigers had ten doubles in the game by eight different players. The Tigers also stole ten bases.
Trent Pelzer had quite a game, going 4-for-5 at the plate with four RBI’s, four Stolen bases and he scored twice. Nile Schuett was 3-for-5 with three RBI’s, three stolen bases and he scored twice. Jauron and Caden Schmidt also each had three hits in the game and each drove in a run. Elliott Cummins
was the other Tiger with a multi-hit game, with two hits.
Tipton led 1-0 after the first inning and extended their lead to 4-0 after two innings. Tipton
led 5-0 before Central City scored twice in the bottom of the third to cut into the Tigers lead at 5-2. Tipton would take control of the game over the next three innings. Tipton scored five runs in the top of the fourth to take a 10-2 lead after four innings. Tipton led 11-2 after five innings and put the game away with a seven-run top of the sixth to set the score at its final of 18-2.
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