Baseball: Tigers sweep Colts

The Douglas baseball team entered the season with concerns about its run production.

If the Tigers' league-opening series against Wooster is any indication of what is in store for the rest of the year, the offense should be just fine.

Douglas topped Wooster 9-1 and 11-2 in a doubleheader in Reno Saturday, giving them a 31-9 runs scored advantage over the Colts through the three-game series.

The Tigers hit a combined four triple over the two games Saturday as Jeff Crozier, Tyler May, Tanner Thomas and Michael Whalin each contributed one.

Game one was actually quite a pitcher's duel as May and Wooster's Spencer Lewis carried their respective teams through four scoreless innings before the Tigers brought a run across in the fifth and broke out with eight in the sixth.

Thomas and Rudnick each drove in two runs while Crozier, Zack McFadden and Kameron VanWinkle each had one RBI. Rudnick and VanWinkle each doubled in the game as well.

May, making his season-debut, struck out nine in a complete-game two-hitter, allowing just one run which came in the seventh.

In the second game, Whalin, a sophomore, put together the third solid start of his young varsity career, holding the Colts to just one run through four innings. VanWinkle closed out the game, allowing only an unearned run in the fifth to pick up the win.

The Tigers got two RBIs apiece from Thomas and Crozier and one each from May, McFadden, Rudnick, Whalin, Beau Davis and Jordan Hadlock.

Douglas jumped out to a 3-0 record in Sierra League play with last week's games (including an 11-6 win over Wooster Thursday) and stands at 7-3 overall.