Baseball Recap: West Prairie Takes a Tough Playoff Loss

By Team Reports May 22, 2025, 5:52am

Baseball Recap: West Prairie Cyclones vs. Monmouth United Red Storm

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact West Prairie can now relate to. They lost 11-1 to the Monmouth United Red Storm on Wednesday. The Cyclones have struggled against the Red Storm recently, as the game was their sixth consecutive lost meeting.

Matthew Whitman

Stolen Base

05/21/25 vs Monmouth United2
05/05/25 vs Peoria Heights2
04/19/25 vs Astoria/VIT2
05/19/25 vs Bushnell-Prairie City1
04/28/25 @ Bushnell-Prairie City1
+ 6 more games

Matthew Whitman was cooking despite his team's loss, going 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and one run. West Prairie is 2-1 when Whitman posts two or more stolen bases, but 4-14 otherwise.

West Prairie's loss dropped their record down to 6-15. As for Monmouth United, the win (which was their 12th in a row) raised their record to 30-4.

As of now, neither West Prairie nor the Red Storm have any future games scheduled.

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