Sacred Heart Prevails Over Express Despite Eight Errors

(Sacred Heat) – The Tracy Express lost a non league game on Tuesday night in Sacred Heart, falling to the Saints 10-6.  Tracy couldn’t hold on to a 5-0 lead at the start of the game, and wound up taking the loss, as the Saints used a seven run fifth inning to claim the lead from the Express.

Casey Polzine made his first start on the mound for the Express, and threw four and a third innings, allowing five runs (two earned), on four hits, while striking out one and walking four.  Derek Webb took the loss in 2/3 of an inning of relief for the Express, and Troy Kepler finished off the game for Tracy.

The Express got started the right way, taking advantage of three Sacred Heart errors in the first inning, to score three runs, with hits from Andrew Suby and Aaron Walling.  They led the Express offensive attack in the contest, Suby was 2-4 with a double, and an RBI, while Walling finished 2-5 in the game.

Tracy pushed the lead to 5-0 when Calvin Kosminskas, hitting in only his second game of the year, smashed a two run homer of the left field fence.

The Saints finally got a run off of Polzine in the third, a leadoff walk came around to score on an Express error, but Polzine responded with a scoreless fourth inning on the mound.  With a 5-1 lead, Polzine attempted to go back out for the 5th inning, but was fighting fatigue, and after an error to lead off the inning and a walk, the Saints followed with a double, to score both.  Derek Webb came in to relieve Polzine with two on base and one out, but he was unable to get out of the jam, before the Saints scored seven runs in the inning and stole the lead.

The loss for the Express dropped them to 6-12 on the season.  The Express play again on Wednesday against the Jackson Bulls in Jackson.

Express                             AB          R             H             RBI        

Robbie Slinkman c-1b        5           1              1                0

Andrew Suby 2b                 3           1              2                0

 Eric Lanoue cf                   0           0              0                0

Jason MacKinnon lf            5          1              0                0

Bryan Francis 1b                4           0              0                0

 Brady Webb ph-c              1           0              0                0

Aaron Walling rf                5           0              2                1

Dane Jensen ss                 3           1              0                0

Calvin Kosminskas 3b       3           1              1                2

Tim Olson dh                    3            0             0                0

 Derek Webb 2b                2            0             0                0
Troy Kepler cf-p                 5           1              1                0

2b: (T) Suby (2); (S) Hebrink; Erickson; Kleinhuizen;  3b: none; HR: (T) Kosminskas (1)  
SB: (S) Hebrink CS: (T) A. Walling (2);