Western Boone Jr. - Sr. High School

Written By Will Willems Lebanon Reporter The Western Boone baseball team couldn't get their offense going on Wednesday night in a double-header against Crawfordsville. The Stars dropped a pair of games, 2-1 in the opener and 6-1 in game two to drop to 11-8 on the season. "We talked all week that they would be high 70s fastball and live and die on the curve ball," Western Boone head coach Michael Nance said. "We needed to move up in the box and we just didn't do that. We didn't execute our game plan at all." The Stars came into the game having won three straight and nine of their last 10. They had scored at least three runs in all 10 of those games, but eight hits in the two games against the Athenian pitchers. "It surprised me just how little effort we had tonight," Nance said. "I thought we had a really good game plan, we just didn't execute that. Ultimately, it's on me at the end of the day. It's my job to get these guys ready, and we weren't ready tonight." Game one was a pitchers' duel. Each team scored in the first inning, with Quinn Westerfeld reaching on an error and scoring on an errant throw. Crawfordsville score on an error in the fourth for the winning run. Western Boone had a runner in scoring position in the second, fourth and sixth innings, but couldn’t get the tying run in. Beau Sawyer was 2-for-3 in the game. Layton Yancey also had a hit. Westerfeld took the loss, allowing one earned in in seven innings on seven hits. He struck out four. In game two, the Stars fell behind 2-0 in the first on a pair of two-out singles. WeBo cut the lead in half on a Layton Yancey 2-out single in the fourth, but the Athenians came back with two runs in the bottom half of the inning to go up 4-1. The Stars stranded two runners in the fifth, and had runners in each of the last two innings but couldn't score. The Athenians added a run in the fifth and sixth innings. Westerfeld, Nance, Yancey, Jack Mallory and Mason Foster had hits for the Stars. WeBo is back in action at home on Thursday against Lebanon.