2-3, rbi vs. Chaska
Chaska scored two runs in the first inning and then snuffed out a seventh inning Tiger rally to score a 2-1 Missota Conference win Tuesday afternoon at Tiger Field.
The loss was the fourth straight for the Tigers and dropped them to 1-4 overall and 0-4 in conference play. Two of those losses have been by one run.
"Situational hitting has been our biggest downfall," coach Mike Winters said. "In the one-run loss to Holy Angels we had the winning runs in scoring position in the sixth and seventh innings and couldn't score....Today, even though we only had only three hits, we stranded six runners in scoring position and had the tying run on third in the seventh."
Ryan Schoening led off the seventh with a walk and came around to score on Spencer Merle's two-out triple for the Tigers' lone run.
Merle had two of the three Farmington hits in the contest. John Stibal, who stretched his hitting streak to five games, had the other Tiger safety.
The loss spoiled a quality pitching performance by Jonathan Ellis who pitched a complete-game, five-hitter. Both of Chaska's first-inning runs were unearned.
"Overall we have played pretty good defense," Winters said, "but untimely two-out errors have cost us runs."
Thursday the Tigers travel to New Prague for a conference encounter with the Trojans before returning home Friday for a league contest with Shakopee.
