By Kevin Cunningham
Correspondent
The Whitewater High School baseball team started the 2017 season with a 4-0 record in its first four games. The Whippets won those games by a combined score of 48-6.
After the four-game winning streak came the team’s first loss, against Edgerton, 4-1. This past week, the team had two games on its schedule to try and redeem the loss, but the first of two was postponed.
The second game – on April 18 – took place and the Whippets got back to its winning ways with a victory over Big Foot on the road. Whitewater held a 2-0 lead after two innings, but it took until the fifth inning for the game to open up, as the Whippets added four runs in the top of the fifth to extend its lead.
Whitewater would score three more in the seventh inning to make it 10-0, registering 10 hits in the process. The Whippets also had just one error in the game, whereas Big Foot made four errors and only got one hit in the game.
Jimmy DuVal went 2-for-4 from the plate offensively and knocked in three runs, while Cooper Pease went 2-for-3 and added two RBIs of his own. On the mound, Jason Curtis went six innings and not giving up a single hit throughout.
Curtis threw 102 pitches and struck out 12 batters in the process. Jacob Lee came in for one inning, allowing one hit while striking out a batter and kept Big Foot off the scoreboard.
With the win, Whitewater is now 5-1 overall on the season and has a busy stretch ahead. The Whippets play at 4:45 p.m. on April 24 at home against Parkview before having to travel to play East Troy the very next day.
