Whitworth 12, UPS 7 - Complete box score

TACOMA, Wash. - (From UPS Sports Information Office) A day after allowing 35 runs in a pair of Northwest Conference at Puget Sound, Whitworth used a nine-run second inning to take a 12-7 win in a Northwest Conference baseball game at Logger Field in Tacoma. The teams were supposed to play two games but the second game was washed away due to rain.

Mitch Ramsay

Chad Flett

Whitworth took the lead in the second inning, taking advantage of three Logger errors to score nine runs, all of them unearned, to take the early lead. The highlight of the inning came on a triple by outfielder Mitch Ramsay that scored a trio of Pirate runs as Whitworth gave the Loggers a taste of what Saturday was like for them. Later in the inning JR Jarrell singled home two more runs, his second RBI hit of an inning in which the Bucs sent 12 batters to the plate.

The Loggers got back into the game in the bottom of the second. David Thirlby doubled to right center to score Matt Cox and then Doug Cox doubled in Thirlby to put two Logger runs on the board. UPS scored runs three and four respectively on a double by Dakota Resnik as the Loggers cut the gap to 9-4.

Puget Sound got within two runs in the fourth inning as Gregg Ringold singled in a run, then came around and scored on a Whitworth throwing error following a failed pickoff attempt.

In the top of the sixth, the Pirates got a pair of insurance runs on a triple by Mitch Nelson that scored Luis Tovar and Mitch Ramsay and then Nelson scored one more on a Logger error as the Pirates collected the eventual 12-7 victory.

Spencer Crace took the loss for the Loggers, allowing nine runs, all unearned, on eight hits in one and two-thirds innings pitched. Chad Flett collected the win for Whitworth, allowing seven runs, six earned, on 10 hits with eight strikeouts in the seven-inning complete game.

Ramsay led the way for Whitworth, going four-for-four from the plate with two runs scored and three RBIs, while Jarrell also drove in three. Mitch Nelson went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored.

Next weekend Whitworth is scheduled to host Linfield in a four-game NWC series. The liklihood of those games happening at Merkel Field is very low. An alternate location will be determined later in the week if and when that becomes necessary.