The Lehman Lobos baseball team took a 4-0 loss at home against the Westlake Chaparrals in the final game of the series on Tuesday.
The Lobos lost the series 2-1 against Westlake winning the first game Friday, 7-5, and fell in the last two games, 2-0 and 4-0.
With a one, two, three out from both pitchers in the first inning, at the top of the second the Chaparrals earned their first run of the night.
A hit down right field from the Chaparrals, and an early hop from the Lobo first baseman, Westlake earned the first triple of the night and sent one runner home.
Lehman had a chance to tie the game with runners on second and third with one out, but couldn’t bring one home-ending the second inning scoreless.
The Lobos weren’t allowed on base in the next two innings, but at the top of the fifth the Chaparrals earned another run.
With a pop-up ball heading to right field, the Lobos were unable to catch the ball for an easy out. With only one out, another pop fly came from the Chaparrals for the second out bringing in the second run of the game.
The Lobos tried to retaliate with a runner on second, but again, couldn’t bring one home.
Lehman changed pitchers at the top of the sixth and earned a one, two, three out to end the inning. However, at the top of the seventh, Westlake brought in two more runs to end the game 4-0.
With runners on second and third, a hit down center field was all it took for the Chaparrals to earn their last two runs of the night.
Senior Lobo Braden Sullins said his team did alright and need to execute when they have runners on base.
“Sometimes we’re there, sometimes we’re not,” Sullins said. “We just have to keep it up all the time, but we’ll be there soon and we should be there next week.”
Lobos head coach Toby Robinson said his team hit some hard balls tonight, but couldn’t get them to fall through.
“We had runners on second and third with one out in the second inning, but we have to get someone in,” Robinson said. “We have to move forward from that and we just couldn’t recover from that.”
The Lobos have one series left this season against the Leander Lions. Robinson said if the team plays against the Lions how they did in the first game against Westlake, they’ll be ready.
“Friday night we got them early, put the ball in play, had a good approach and we moved runners around – that’s why we scored seven runs,” Robinson said. “We are doing some good things, we just need the ball to fall into the holes that we want them to.”
