Tigers top Mountaineers for tenth consecutive win

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The Napavine baseball team’s winning streak has reached double digits, as the Tigers defeated Rainier 10-0 in six innings.

Napavine (15-3, 14-3 C2BL) scored nine runs in the first three innings to take control, and Ashton Demarest went to work on the mound. He went all six innings, allowing just two hits and striking out nine in a complete-game shutout.

Demarest also scored the run-rule walk-off on a wild pitch in the sixth.

Conner Holmes went 2 for 3 with a pair of runs batted in, and Cal Bullock also collected two hits and drove in three. Jack Nelson brought home two on an RBI double, and Beckett Landram logged two hits and brought home a run of his own.

Dayton Gardner drilled a double for Rainier’s (7-11, 7-10 C2BL) only extra-base hit, and Ryder Cruse also recorded a hit.