SHORTHANDED COMETS DROP FIRST GAME
With their 14-player roster reduced to ten, the Naselle Comets were no match for the visiting Taholah Chitwhins in a 9-4 non-league softball loss at Naselle Monday.
Sunny Trent, who batted .683 for the Comets in 2006, missed the game with a migraine. Two other Comet players will be out a minimum of two weeks for disciplinary reasons as Naselle struggles to keep the required nine players eligible to play.
"We're a bad grade or an illness away from forfeiting games," said fourth year head coach Chris Clark.
Still, the Comets had their chances against the young Chitwhins, who start four freshmen and two eighth graders. It was one of the veteran Taholah players, senior catcher Allison Kartz, that caused coach Clark to develop an Excedrin headache of his own.
"She plays senior legion baseball in the summer with Lake Quinault and Taholah's boys," said Clark. "She catches for them. We actually got three walks in the first inning, but she threw them all out. She has a cannon for an arm. She's pretty fun to watch."
Kartz picked off two baserunners, then threw out a third on a strikeout passed ball as Naselle missed a golden opportunity to get the game's first score.
The Chitwhins scored seven unanswered runs in the middle innings, before Naselle responded with a 3-spot in the fifth, adding a single run in the sixth inning before Taholah tacked on two insurance runs in its final at bat in the seventh.
Kellyn Pakenen and Arielle Condon each reached base three times on a hit and a pair of walks. Pakenen scored two runs for Naselle, which hosts Pacific 2B League favorite North Beach on Wednesday before travelling to Ocosta on Friday.
This year's league combines 2B teams Naselle, Ocosta, North Beach, N.W. Christian and Tacoma Baptist with three 1B squads: Taholah, Lake Quinault and Oakville. The 1B-2B matchups will not count in the league standings, but could potentially be used as tiebreakers for district seeding. All three 1B teams will advance to the state tournament due to the absence of any 1B schools on the east side of the district.
Naselle dropped to 2-1 on the season with the loss. The Comets baseball team was forced to forfeit its game against Taholah due to a shortage of players.
Sunny Trent, who batted .683 for the Comets in 2006, missed the game with a migraine. Two other Comet players will be out a minimum of two weeks for disciplinary reasons as Naselle struggles to keep the required nine players eligible to play.
"We're a bad grade or an illness away from forfeiting games," said fourth year head coach Chris Clark.
Still, the Comets had their chances against the young Chitwhins, who start four freshmen and two eighth graders. It was one of the veteran Taholah players, senior catcher Allison Kartz, that caused coach Clark to develop an Excedrin headache of his own.
"She plays senior legion baseball in the summer with Lake Quinault and Taholah's boys," said Clark. "She catches for them. We actually got three walks in the first inning, but she threw them all out. She has a cannon for an arm. She's pretty fun to watch."
Kartz picked off two baserunners, then threw out a third on a strikeout passed ball as Naselle missed a golden opportunity to get the game's first score.
The Chitwhins scored seven unanswered runs in the middle innings, before Naselle responded with a 3-spot in the fifth, adding a single run in the sixth inning before Taholah tacked on two insurance runs in its final at bat in the seventh.
Kellyn Pakenen and Arielle Condon each reached base three times on a hit and a pair of walks. Pakenen scored two runs for Naselle, which hosts Pacific 2B League favorite North Beach on Wednesday before travelling to Ocosta on Friday.
This year's league combines 2B teams Naselle, Ocosta, North Beach, N.W. Christian and Tacoma Baptist with three 1B squads: Taholah, Lake Quinault and Oakville. The 1B-2B matchups will not count in the league standings, but could potentially be used as tiebreakers for district seeding. All three 1B teams will advance to the state tournament due to the absence of any 1B schools on the east side of the district.
Naselle dropped to 2-1 on the season with the loss. The Comets baseball team was forced to forfeit its game against Taholah due to a shortage of players.
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