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West St. Paul/Mendota Heights Challengers Drop Two in American Legion Doubleheader
Challenger team gets good pitching, but finds hits hard to come by in 4-2 and 5-3 losses to visiting East Ridge.
West St. Paul Challenger Post 521 got good pitching twice, but couldn't connect much at the plate and dropped a doubleheader to visiting Woodbury Post 501 East Ridge Thursday afternoon.
The Challengers fell 4-2 and 5-3.
Billy Schweiger pitched well in the opener, and teammate Tyler Pease and Billy Jacobson followed with solid efforts in the second, said Challenger manager Seth Pugh. Schweiger pitched seven innings and didn't allowed an earned run in the first game.
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West St. Paul/Mendota Heights took a 2-0 lead in the first inning of the first game, but was blanked the rest of the contest. John Gould had a double, while Spencer Brooks had a run-scoring single.
Doug Vanasek and Michael Mansur had doubles in the second game.
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"I thought our pitching was really good," said Pugh. "We threw strikes, we got ahead. Defense was so-so, but pitching really came through. I was kind of surprised a little bit. The whole year I was kind of thinking the pitching not being that good, but its come through and pitching has been really good, especially today."
The Challenger team fell to 9-4 on the season.