By Kevin Cunningham
Correspondent
The Whitewater High School baseball team started its season 3-0 and then went on to lose three of its next four games. Entering the week, the team was 4-3, but the Whippets had the chance to stay above .500 in a road game against Brodhead-Juda on Thursday.
On the mound and defensively, a combination effort from Jacob Lee and Bryce Parrish got the job done. Lee pitched the first three innings and allowed one run.
Parrish pitched the next four and allowed two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. The two runs Parrish gave up wouldn’t be enough, though, as the Whippets’ offense came through, putting up eight runs by the game’s end.
James Dedrick led the team with two RBIs as he went 2-for-2 at the plate. Sam Leibbrand went 2-for-3 and knocked in an RBI while Tanner Conn went 1-for-3 with an RBI as well.
On Tuesday, the team played Evansville at home. Despite the home-field advantage and a 1-0 lead thanks to a run scored in the bottom of the first inning though, the Whippets eventually lost 6-4.
Evansville responded with three runs in the third inning and two in the fourth to propel them to victory. Both teams recorded nine hits in the game, but the Whippets committed five errors compared to Evansville’s two.
Three Whippets recorded multi-hit games, each getting two hits in the game, but Parrish was the only player to capitalize on those hits, as he had three of the team’s four RBIs in the contest. Julian Sonn was the only other player to knock a run in.
The team is now 5-4 overall heading into next week with three games on the schedule. All three are on the road for the Whippets, with the first starting at 4:45 p.m. in a revenge game against Evansville on Thursday.
