Baseball Recap: Troup Comes Up Short

Tigers

Previous 5 Games

03/17/26 vs West Rusk	1-7
03/13/26 vs Gladewater	10-3
03/10/26 @ Gladewater	7-1
03/03/26 vs Arp	14-6
02/26/26 vs Lancaster	1-5

Troup dropped down to 5-5 on Tuesday, ending the team's three-game streak of wins. They lost 7-1 to the West Rusk Raiders. Having soared to a lofty ten runs in the game before, the Tigers couldn't push the score so high this time.

As for West Rusk, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games. That's provided a nice bump to their 10-8 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.7 runs on average over those games.

For West Rusk's part, Troy Hunley and Caiden Landon did most of the damage at the plate: Hunley went a perfect 3-for-3 with two runs, one double, and one RBI, while Landon went 3-for-4 with three runs, one double, and one RBI. Hunley has become a key player for the Raiders: the team is undefeated when he posts at least two runs, but 7-8 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Jaxon Johnson, who went 2-for-3 with three RBI.

While Troup had to take the loss, they won't have to wait long to give it another shot: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.