Cougars lose six, but they’re hitting

Published 10:48 am Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Wallowa Cougars baseball team went on the skids last week, losing four non-league games, and dropping two in league play.

First the boys lost a doubleheader to the La Grande JV team on Tuesday, 16-3 and 14-2.

Coach Thomas Wenke talked about the La Grande games. “The scores really didn’t reflect how we played in these games. We only had a couple of bad innings, but for most of the games we played them well and were even ahead in the second game.”

On Friday the Cougars traveled to play the Union/Cove Bobcats, a league opponent. The Cougars came up short — 11-8 and 6-3 — but played well again, according to the coach. “They didn’t hit us a lot and we left base runners in scoring positions. We couldn’t capitalize.”

Josh Rummell had an exceptional day, going 7-for-8 on the day, including two triples, a double and a home run. Micah Fuller went 4-for-8 over the two games. He also hit a home run. Gareth Murray also went 4-for-8, as did Koby Frye. Daniel Delancey went 3-for-8, and teammates Noah Allen, Cole Hafer, and Robert Delancey also had hits against the Bobcats.

Noah Allen pitched the first game. Gareth Murray started the second game with Josh Rummell relieving Murray.

On Saturday the Cougars had a long day playing against the Huskies with the first game going the distance and the second game lasting 10 innings. Each team came out strong, scoring six runs in the first inning. The E/I team scored three runs in the second and two in the third. Wallowa did score one run in the top of the seventh.

In the second game Rummell again had a great day at the plate, going 7-for-8 with a walk. Murray and Allen were both 5-for-8, and Frye went 2-for-8.

Robert Delancey pitched the first four innings in the first game with Rummell relieving him.

In the second game Daniel Delancey, Austin Lindross, Noah Allen and Rummell pitched.

The Cougars are now 0-2 in their division.

The boys were to again travel to La Grande on Tuesday and then play at home on Friday against Burns.