Pateros comes up short against Crusaders, Trojans

PATEROS – The Billygoats’ varsity baseball team lost both ends of a doubleheader, 10-1, and 7-5, Monday, April 23, at Riverside Christian, a team Pateros will likely meet again in the playoffs, said head coach Bob VanLith.
Following a long bus ride to Yakima, the Billygoats surrendered the first game 10-0 in five innings against the Crusaders before finding their hitting range late in the second game.
In game two, the Crusaders took an early three-run lead in the first inning and added another run in the second while holding Pateros scoreless through the first three innings.
Riverside was quiet in the third inning before coming alive again in the fourth with three runs.
The Billygoats put their first run across the plate in the fourth inning and then went scoreless through the next two innings.
While the Crusaders could not muster a run in the final three innings, Pateros rallied for four runs in the seventh in a surge that ran out of innings before running out of momentum.
Hitting for Pateros was Logan Robinson, 2-3, Jeremy Piechalski, 2-3, Doug Viebrock, 2-4, Max Ewing, 2-4, and Dan Rossman, 2-4. Lucas Miller went 1-2 in the first game.
In an earlier game on Thursday, April 19, the Manson Trojans improved their Central Washington 2B league fourth-place win-loss record to 7-5 with a 14-4 win over Pateros on the Billygoats’ home diamond.
“We took a 4-0 lead in the first inning,” said VanLith, “but then we started erroring.”
The Trojans caught their second wind in the fifth inning with a five-run surge that the Billygoats could not equal.
Pateros plays the junior varsity team at Ephrata on Thursday, April 26, before hosting Waterville-Mansfield for a doubleheader on Saturday, April 28, starting at 11 a.m.