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TOUCHET - The Lady Tigers suffered a 9-2 nonleague defeat against the Touchet Indians Monday, but it didn't matter from a playoff perspective.

After splitting a double header with the De- Sales Irish last Tuesday in Prescott, WP is the No. 1 seed in the SE2B and play the No. 2 league seed at districts May 20 at Trac in Pasco.

The opener against De- Sales last week was scoreless until the bottom of the third when Alyssa Hafen made it safely on base then continued to steal her way across the plate to put the first run of the day on the board.

The Tigers continued to battle DeSales pitcher Ashlyn

Lyons who struck out four batters in the nest two innings.

Desales scored the tying run in the top of the sixth but with one out and two runners on a Jennifer strikeout and a grounder also fielded by Nichols would send the Irish back to the dug out.

Dionna Baker sent a double into right field in the bottom of the sixth but was left on base as two Tigers were struck out by Lyons.

Desales had four hits in the top of the seventh to bring in four more runs to take the lead 5-1.

In the bottom of the seventh Sam Moss walked, Ashley Wilson got on with a grounder, and Rachelle Oseth's sacrifice bunt advanced them into scoring position. Hailey Goenen slammed a triple to score two but the Tigers were shut down by another Lyons strike out and the Tigers lost 5-3 .

Tiger Sara Wilson gets a catch for an out on first base during her team's doubleheader against DeSales last week. To the right is Taylor Doepker catching a fly ball.

The Tigers stepped it up in the second game taking a 7-1 victory over the Irish.

"We didn't get the batting practice that we needed to prepare for Lyons due to weather," said head coach Angie Potts. "I didn't think it would take us a whole game to get her figured out, but we cut our strike outs in half in game two and really started to hit the ball."

Sara Wilson picked up two hits in the night cap and Chelsey Brannock had one. Katy Hofer knocked out two doubles and Hailey Goenen pulled out her guns and shot her fifth home run of the season over the heads of the Irish to score two in the bottom of the fifth inning.

In their victory over WP Monday, the Indians had 16 hits, ending Touchet's regular season. WP held a 1-0 lead through the bottom of the second, but Touchet scored three and didn't look back. Jennifer Nichols threw for the WP through the first six, with Kazmira Grende relieving for sixth.