West Allis NATIONALS Baseball

The West Allis Nationals got off to a quick start on Saturday afternoon and cruised to a 9-1 victory over the new Beavers franchise.

Adam Karas led off the game for a walk and Dean Mlachnik followed with a double.  Brandon Hall's groundout put the squad ahead.

In the second inning, the Nationals broke the game open.   The team batted around and took advantage of 3 Beaver errors to post 5 runs.

Dean Mlachnik, Brandon Hall, Curt Pryal, and Austin James led the Nats with 2 hits each.  Adam Karas reached base 4 times and scored 3 runs.

Jimmy Jungbauer started the game and went 6 innings, allowing one earned run and striking out 7.    Alex Kingsley chipped in three hitless innings of relief.

Next up for the Nationals are the Genoa City Red Dogs.    The team will travel to Genoa City on Saturday for a 1PM DH.  

The Nats fell short in a closely contested game Tuesday night against the White Sox, falling 4-3.

The locals took a 1-0 lead in the third on an RBI double by Brandon Hall, but gave it back in the fourth allowing an unearned run to score and knot the game.

CJ Herrforth was strong in his season debut, going the first four innings and allowing only 2 hits while striking out 8.

Mitch Lochen made his Nationals debut in the 5th, taking over for Herrforth.   Lochen took a few batters to settle in and the White Sox took advantage, scoring 3 runs on 2 hits and 2 hit batsmen.

Down 4-1, the Nats had several scoring opportunities fall short before breaking through in the eighth.   With two down the team strung together 4 successive singles, one by James Herkowski who plated two in the process.   However, after Herkowski reached second on a single by Jungbauer, he was ruled out when leaving the base for a pinch runner.

Next up for the Nationals are the Milwaukee Beavers.  The two teams square off on Saturday afternoon at 12pm at Wisconsin Lutheran College's field.