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Recap by Nate Parrish
Whitewater High School baseball team came out swinging on a cold and windy night as the Whippets improved to 3-0 with a 19-6 win over conference foe Clinton. Whitewater got the bats going early in the first inning as James Dedrick led the game off with a walk, followed by another free pass to Dylan Pease. Bryce Parrish lined a single up the middle to load the bases and Jimmy Duval followed with another single to give the Whippets a 2-0 lead. Jordan Curtis followed with a double to increase the lead to 4-0. Jordan would eventually score on a wild pitch and Danny Harnack would beat out an infield single to score Chris Dedrick and make it 6-0. After a walk and a single by Dylan Pease, Bryce Parrish lined a single to left to make it 8-0 followed by a double by Jimmy Duval to make it 10-0 in the first inning. Clinton would respond with 3 runs in the bottom of the first and 3 more in the second to make it 10-6. In the top of the 3rd, Whitewater would respond after a walk by James Dedrick, Dylan Pease executed a perfect bunt single, Bryce Parrish followed with a double to make it 12-6. Jimmy Duval was hit by a pitch and Jordan Curtis dropped down another well-placed bunt scoring Parrish to make 13-6. The Whippets would tack on two more in the inning after a James Dedrick single to make it 15-6. They would add one more in the 4th inning with a sac fly by Cooper Pease and two more in the 5th after Chris Dedrick and Gehrig Monday singled Dylan Pease moved the runners along with an RBI groundout and a line drive base hit by Parrish to score Monday making it 19-6. Bryce Parrish led the hitting by going 4×4 with a double and 3 RBI’s followed by Jimmy Duval 3×3 with a double and 4 RBI’s. Dylan Pease and Jordan Curtis also had 2 hits as eight Whitewater players collected hits on the evening. Hunter Martin picked up the win going 1 inning with James Dedrick tossing 3 innings and Dylan Pease pitching 1 inning to close out the game. Overall Coach Pease was happy to get a win on a cold night with several players having very good at-bats after a long layoff due to all the weather issues.
The next game is Friday, April 13th at home against McFarland with 1st pitch at 4:45.
