Prep baseball: Mountlake Terrace 3, Shorewood 1
Published 8:38 pm Friday, April 17, 2015
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Hit-by-pitch, sacrifice bunt, flyout, hit-by-pitch, walk, walk, walk, walk.
That’s how the Mountlake Terrace baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning to hand Shorewood its first loss of the season in Wesco 3A South action Friday afternoon.
The Hawks managed just one hit in the game, and it didn’t figure in the scoring.
Terrace starting pitcher Jason Shevenko kept Shorewood in check, pitching a complete game and striking out seven.
“He was just good,” Terrace head coach Andrew Watters said of Shevenko. “He made (Shorewood) swing the bat and kept the ball down and he had seven strikeouts so he made big pitches when he needed to. The last three innings in particular he was great.”
Watters said he felt his team had something to prove after the first-place Thunderbirds walked off with a victory over the Hawks on Wednesday, scoring the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning.
“We came in with a chip on our shoulder because we felt like we had them beat on Wednesday,” Watters said. “We’re in no way intimidated by them (Shorewood) and Jason (Shevenko) is a senior pitcher and a (three-year) letterman and he did what a veteran would do.”
“Everybody’s gunning for them,” Watters said of Shorewood. “But for us it was a league game … We felt like it was a game that we needed to get. It didn’t matter who we played. Shorewood is a good team and they’re a team that we hopefully will see in the postseason.”
The loss snapped the Thunderbirds’ 11-game win streak.
Shorewood 000 100 0 — 1 4 0
M. Terrace 300 000 0 — 3 1 2
Riley Teeters, Will Smith (1) and Nick Edney. Jason Shevenko and Nolan Takeya. WP—Shevenko. LP—Teeters. 2B—Harrison Jacobs (S). Records—Shorewood 9-1 league, 11-1 overall. Mountlake Terrace 7-8, 6-7.
