West Allis NATIONALS Baseball

Pool A

Pewaukee Muskies 2-1

Pool B 

Brookfield Bulldogs 3-0

Pool C

Appleton Legends 2-1  

Brownsville 49ers 2-1

Sussex Cardinals 1-2 

West Allis Nationals 1-2

Pool D 

Racine Kiwanis 3-0

The West Allis Nationals completed a difficult three game sweep this weekend, downing the Appleton Legends on Saturday by 4 - 1 and 4 - 1 scores and edging the Green Bay Storm on Sunday 6 - 5 in 10 innings.

In game one vs Appleton Curt Pryal kept the Legends off balance en route to a complete game victory.  Pryal allowed only a first inning run on a blooper between short and center, keeping the squad in the game until the offense awoke for 4 runs in the fifth inning.   Jake Erfourth's two run double over the Appleton CF's head was the key blow.  Adam Karas followed with an RBI double of his own and Brian Huntzinger closed the scoring with an RBI single.

In game two vs Appleton the Nats continued to receive strong pitching, keeping the game close until the offense broke open a 1 - 1 deadlock with a three run seventh.  Jimmy Jungbauer went 6 strong innings for his 40th career victory, allowing only one unearned run.   Jack Wagoner struck out the side in the bottom half of the frame for the save.   Jake Kolasinski had the key knock in the decisive seventh.   After showing bunt on the first pitch, Kolasinski launched a two run double over the CF's head to score Danny Putnam and Brian Huntzinger, who had each singled to open the frame.  CJ Putterman's third hit of the contest knocked in the the third and final run of the frame.

On Sunday the Nationals were down to nine active players, loosely defined.   Despite the thin roster and self-induced performance compromising decisions made the night before, the squad mustered up just enough offense when it mattered to steal a late victory.   Bobby Herrick started on the bump.  In his longest outing in a Nationals uniform, Herrick went 5 plus innings and kept the game close.   Jake Erfourth then came on and held Green Bay in check the rest of the way, earning his first Nationals victory with both his arm and his bat.  Erfouth doubled early in the game and came around to score the team's second run.   It was his late game heroics, that sent the Nationals home happy.   With one out in the top of the 10th inning, Erfourth blasted a home run to left field to give the Nationals a 6-5 lead.   He then closed out the victory on the bump, holding Green Bay in check in the bottom half of the frame.

This coming week the Nationals play three successive days.   On Thursday they travel to Burlington for a league tilt against the Barons and on Friday night and Saturday morning, they take on the Kenosha Kings at historic Simmons Field.