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PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers dropped the ball here Saturday to lose another league double-header against the TOR Spartans.

Zach Bartlow pitched six innings for the Tigers in the opener, throwing three strike outs. Dalton Estes seemed to get the Tigers started with his single to center and one runner on, but with two outs, Matt Hamilton's grounder beat him to the bag. The Tigers were left scoreless with two runners on.

Joe Purdin made a diving catch for a line drive at second to spark up a little defense, but a bad hop at the plate from an outfield cutoff scored another Spartan run.

The next at bat for the Tigers showed scoring potential with two runners on with one out, but once again the lack of hits left them on the bag scoreless.

Down by three in the bottom of the third, TJ Hofer takes one for the team, and Estes gets his second hit of the game to advance Bartlow to scoring position. Hamilton's RBI gets the Tigers on the board, and Estes nearly got picked off in an attempt to steal third.

That was all the offensive excitement fans saw from the Tigers until the bottom of the sixth, when Purdin smacked one to the left, driving in Tre Brannock, but the Spartans answered with a double play, and that was the end of that.

Down 2-8 at the top of the seventh, Estes relieved Bartlow on the mound but struggled to find his groove. The Spartans went on a hitting spree, racking up five more runs and ending the first game with a spanking of 13-2.

Purdin opened the night cap from the mound for the Tigers with Hamilton relieving him in the sixth. Hofer and Drew Summers each had a hit for the Tigers with Brannock and Tucker Alleman earning the only RBIs of the game.

"We couldn't get the key hits," said head coach Dustin Snedigar. "We've been struggling at the plate the last several games, and we've left a few guys on bases."