Tigers season ends in Camanche

 CAMANCHE — The Tipton Tiger baseball team stumbled into the postseason on a seven-game losing streak. However, hopes abounded last Monday, July 14 when they traveled to Camanche to play Iowa City Regina to begin the postseason. The Tigers had a bye in the first round of the Class 2A district tournament and played the Regals in a district semifinal at Camanche. There, the Regals ran away late to a 10-4 win. The Tigers finish the 2020 season with a record of 5-11, the Regals improved to 7-5.
 The Tigers used five pitchers in the game. Trent Pelzer started and went two innings, giving up four runs on four hits. He walked three and struck out one. Cole Syring pitched four innings of good relief, shutting down the Regals in four innings.
 He gave up one-run on two hits even though he walked four batters. Davis Webb pitched next and took the loss after giving up four runs on two hits in ⅔ innings of work. He also walked two batters. Elliot Cummins and Brady Connor also pitched in the game.
 Tipton had ten hits in the game with four players getting multi-hit games. Trent Pelzer, Caden Schmidt, Nile Schuett, and Davis Webb all had two hits in the game. Webb had two RBI’s while Pelzer and Schuett each had one RBI. Webb had the Tigers only extra base hit, a double.
 The Tigers will say goodbye to seniors Trent Pelzer, Connor Hermiston, Kael Jauron, Elliott Cummins, and Gavin Belitz off of this year’s team.
 Iowa City Regina sent eight batters to the plate in the first inning and scored three runs. Regina extended their lead to 4-0 with a single run in the third inning. Tipton scored their first run in the bottom of the third inning. David Webb led off the inning with a double and stole third base. He scored on a RBI single by Trent Pelzer to set the score at 3-1. Tipton tied the score at 3-3 in the fourth inning. The Tigers got their first two batters in the inning on base in Connor Hermiston and Kael Jauron who each scored on a 2-run single RBI Davis Webb. The Tigers scored runs in the third straight inning in the bottom of the fifth inning.
 A Nile Schuett RBI single scored Caden Schmidt to give Tipton a 4-3 lead. It would be their only lead of the game, as Regina would take control of the game in the top of the seventh, scoring six runs to set the score at its final of 10-4.
 Regina had ten hits in the game and had three players with multi-hit games. Eliezer De Los Santos, Levi Quinlan, Alex Meister each had two hits. Meister, Declan McCoy, Danny Malony, and Alec Wick all had two RBI’s. Regina used three pitchers in the game. Levi Quinlan was the winning pitcher after working 1 ⅓ innings of relief of starter Chase Becker and reliever Kyle Schooley. Tipton roughed up Becker, scoring three runs on five hits and drawing two walks. The Tigers also hit Schooley well with five hits, but only scored one run.