LACEY, Wash. (Apr. 29) – The Central Washington University baseball team finished game four of the series against Saint Martin's University that started two weekends ago (April 14th) but was postponed to lack of lighting.
The Wildcats played four innings against the Saints. Today picked up in the top of the fourth inning with
Robert Ball,
Trevor Tripoli, and
Mitch Lesmeister due up to the plate. The Wildcats went scoreless for the first two innings then added to their two-run lead in the sixth inning.
Jesse Unger started the inning off with a leadoff single up the middle.
Michael Peter then laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Unger to second base. Yi-fan Pan then pinch hit for
Luke Smith and grounded out to second base allowing Unger to move to third. Ball then laced a ball to center field which the Saints center fielder made an error on allowing Unger to score.
Central added another run in the top of the seventh inning after Lesmeister roped a ball down the left field line for a leadoff double.
Justin Hampson then put down a sacrifice bunt allowing Lesmeister to advance to third on the play. Two batters later,
Colton Bunt singled up the middle that drove in Lesmeister from third base.
JJ Asinas started today's continuation on the bump and was dominate on the mound. Asinas threw three innings and faced 11 batters striking out one batter while giving up just two hits. The junior didn't allow a run or walk a batter and threw 21 strikes of the 30 pitches that he threw.
Jacob Forrester came in for the bottom of the seventh inning and finished off the game. He faced four batters and struck out three of them and gave up just one hit which was a double down the left field line.
The Wildcats close out their regular season this week in Nampa Idaho against Northwest Nazarene University.
