WINONA – On Tuesday, the Albert Lea High School baseball team managed to win despite some shaky defense.

Friday, April 27, 2001

WINONA – On Tuesday, the Albert Lea High School baseball team managed to win despite some shaky defense.

It was a different story Thursday.

The Tigers committed six errors in the first game and two in the second as they lost both ends of a doubleheader 8-7 and 4-3 at Winona.

&uot;In baseball, if you can limit the opposition to three outs an inning, it makes a big difference,&uot; said ALHS coach Joe Sczublewski.

Still, the Tigers were in a position to win both games. They had the tying run thrown out at the plate in seventh inning of the opener and blew a 3-2 sixth-inning lead in the second.

&uot;It was just one of those days,&uot; said Sczublewski. &uot;If we had made a couple key plays in the field we could have swept them, but we didn’t.&uot;

The Tigers trailed 6-0 in the first game but wound up outhitting the Winhawks 13-7. Only two of Winona’s runs were earned.

Isaac Walton pitched a complete game, striking out six and walking one.

Walton was 2-for-3 at the plate with two long home runs and three RBIs. Isaiah Parry was 3-for-4, Adam Highum 2-for-3, Adam Hamberg and David Dahl 2-for-4. Phil Wacholz, Alan Attig and Adam Hanson had one hit each.

Jay Link took a tough pitching loss in the second game, giving up three earned runs on six hits. He walked one and fanned two.

Hamberg’s two-run single put the Tigers on top in the sixth, but Winona answered with a pair in the bottom half.

Dahl also had an RBI hit. Parry, Attig and Wacholz also hit safely.

The Tigers, 3-3 overall and 2-3 in the Big Nine, have another doubleheader today at Owatonna at 4 and 6 p.m.