WCHS Warriors close out the regular season with 2 wins

The White County High School baseball team closed out their regular season with back-to-back wins over Stone Memorial.

The first game, played in Cumberland County, was one that the Warriors had to come from behind to steal. The Panthers put a single run on the board in the bottom of the first inning and nothing changed for the next two innings. In the top of the fourth, White County took the lead 2-1, but it wasn’t going to last long. Stone Memorial answered right back with two runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth inning to regain the lead, 3-2. In the top of the sixth inning, the Warriors pushed two more runs across the plate to go ahead 4-3, a lead they would hang on to this time.

Austin Pionke hit a pair of doubles and Cole Gentry added one more. Gentry had another base hit, as did Eli Smith, and the duo were responsible for all of White County’s runs on Tuesday night. Wyatt Dilts pitched 3.2 innings giving up 3 runs on a single hit. Dilts walked two and struck out four. Matthew Wilson got the win for the Warriors, pitching 2.1 innings and giving up two hits and a walk.

On Wednesday night, it was White County’s turn to host the game, and this time it was the Warriors who took the early lead. White County put three runs up in their first at bat and it wasn’t until the third inning that the Panthers answered. Stone Memorial scored two runs in the third and three more in the fourth to take a 5-3 lead that White County wiped out by scoring two and tying the game up in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Warriors then scored two more runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to take an 8-5 win on senior night.

Cole Gentry and Gage Walker each recorded two hits in the Warriors’ season finale. Kaden Seibers, Branton Ferris, Kason Seal, Dilts, and Pionke each contributed one hit to White County’s total of nine hits. Senior Trenton Williams pitched the complete game facing 34 batters. Williams gave up 11 hits but only five runs – and only three of those were earned.

White County finished the regular season with a record of 10 wins and 15 losses. Their 3-7 district record has them at the bottom of the 3A District 7 division.