Monday, March 18, 2024

Tigers return to form in baseball win over Class 4A Tillamook

Taft Beats Tillamook

Caleb King
Caleb King

Senior Caleb King drove home five runs, while junior starter Kam Kessler and sophomore reliever Eli DeMello combined to limit Tillamook to four hits Friday for an 8-2 victory in the Madras Spring Break Baseball Tournament.

“We bounced back tonight and put a tally on the right side of the win-loss column,” Taft Coach Matt Hilgers said. “We still need to clean up some things on the defensive side of the ball. We are not fundamentally sound yet.”

Josh Salsbery
Josh Salsbery

Senior infielder Josh Salsbery had three hits to pace the Tigers, while Kessler and DeMello collected two each as Taft took advantage of a four-run third inning against the Class 4A Cheesemakers (2-3, 0-0 Cowapa).

Caleb Jones
Caleb Jones slides safely back to first

Junior Cody Knott and sophomore Caleb Jones joined Salsbery by driving in runs for Class 3A Taft (7-2, 0-0 West Valley), which rebounded from a nine-error, nine-walk 18-9 loss to 4A Crook County on Thursday. Kessler doubled, while Salsbery and King tripled for Taft.

“We were able to overcome walks and errors today with some key defensive plays,” Hilgers said. “We had a better mindset today, and we had a much different approach to the game than we have the last couple games.”

The Tigers will conclude tournament play against host Madras at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Eli Demello
Eli DeMello pitching
Kameron Kessler
Kameron Kessler

Taft 8, Tillamook 2

TAFT                   AB  R  H BI  
Josh Salsbery       4  2  3  1
Eli DeMello           4  2  2  0
Caleb King            3  1  1  5
Jack Stempel        4  0  1  0
Cody Knott           3  0  0  1
Kam Kessler         4  1  2  0
Tyee Fisher           4  0  0  0
Caleb Jones          3  1  1  1
Trenton Fisher       1  1  0  0
TOTALS               30  8 10  8 

TILLAMOOK           AB  R  H BI
Chase Wagner          4  0  1  0
Justin Harmon          4  1  1  0
Tanner Richardson    0  0  0  0
Jeff Witthoft             4  0  1  0
Tyson Wilkes            3  1  0  0
Danny Weber           2  0  0  1
Max Brown              3  0  0  1
Corbin Brown           4  0  1  0
Josh Smith             3  0  0  0
TOTALS               27  2  4  2

TAFT                    104 012 0 — 8 
TILLAMOOK        100 010 0 — 2

LOB–TAFT 5, TILLAMOOK 12. ERR–Josh Salsbery (2),Kam Kessler, Eli DeMello, Cody Knott, Corbin Brown, Justin Harmon. 2B–Kam Kessler, Chase Wagner. 3B—Josh Salsbery, Caleb King. HBP–Trenton Fisher, Max Brown, Tanner
Richardson (3), Tyson Wilkes, Danny Weber (2). SACF—Caleb King. SB–Josh Salsbery, Eli DeMello (2), Caleb Jones, Corbin Brown (2), Tyson Wilkes, Chase Wagner, Danny Weber.

TAFT                                   IP   H   R    ER    BB  SO  HR
Kam Kessler (W)             4.00    3    2    1    1    3    0
Eli DeMello                      3.00    1    0    0    0    1    0
TILLAMOOK 
Jeff Witthoft (L)              6.00    9    8    8    1    3    0
Tyson Wilkes                  1.00    1    0    0    1    0    0
BB–Trenton Fisher, Cody Knott, Tanner Richardson.

Taft roster and schedule

Tillamook roster and schedule

Class 3A West Valley League standings

Class 3A OSAA rankings

Jim Fossum
Jim Fossumhttp://SilverandBlackToday.com
Homepage Executive Editor and former longtime Sports Editor of the near-200,000 circulation Las Vegas Review-Journal, Fossum brings 40 years of award-winning experience covering virtually every facet of print and digital journalism to Lincoln City Homepage. The former longtime reporter for the Newport News-Times and Lincoln City News Guard is also Editor-in-Chief and Senior Columnist for SilverandBlackToday.com, which covers the NFL's Oakland (Las Vegas) Raiders.

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