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The Elgin High School varsity baseball team lost a pair of close 5A-District 23 games this past week as the Wildcats competed against district frontrunner Georgetown High School.
GEORGETOWN EAGLES 5, ELGIN WILDCATS 0
Despite a solid collective pitching effort from Elgin, the Wildcats could not get any runners across home plate March 26 in a 5-0 loss on the road against the Eagles. Georgetown scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and tacked on three more runs in the fifth frame.
Elgin senior pitcher Jack Grames got the start on the mound and pitched 4.2 innings with three strikeouts and four hits allowed, while junior Cason Nalle came in to pitch 1.1 innings in relief and did not allow a run.
The Wildcats’ offense was held to two hits in the first game against Georgetown as senior Austin Miller and junior Fernando Ramirez each had a double. Elgin sophomore Tyson McFarlin stole a base in the loss to the Eagles.
GEORGETOWN EAGLES 3, ELGIN WILDCATS 1
The Wildcats returned home March 28 and put up a fight against the Eagles but came up just short in a 3-1 loss.
Elgin broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third inning on an RBI groundout by Miller that scored McFarlin.
Georgetown tied this game at 1-1 in the top of the fifth inning and took a 3-1 lead in the sixth frame, a score that would hold. Elgin was able to get two runners on base and the winning run at the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning, but Georgetown was able to escape with the win.
McFarlin went 2-for-3 at the plate, while senior Nathen Lewis and sophomore Bryce Barron also had one hit apiece for Elgin. Wildcats junior Jalen Owens pitched 6.2 innings and struck out six batters, while Lewis pitched 0.1 inning in relief without allowing a run.
Elgin (8-14 overall, 3-3 district record), under Head Coach Jason Bourgeois, was on the road April 2 to play at Cedar Creek High School, and return home Friday, April 5 at 7 p.m. for a rematch with the Eagles.
