Baseball Recap: Pershing County Comes Up Short

Mustangs

Previous 5 Games

03/08/25 @ North Tahoe	8-15
03/08/25 @ North Tahoe	1-10
03/04/25 vs North Tahoe	5-3
03/01/25 vs Yerington	3-19
02/28/25 vs Dayton	4-10

The home team had won the previous two meetings between Pershing County and North Tahoe, and North Tahoe kept the tradition alive. The Pershing County Mustangs lost 15-8 to the North Tahoe Lakers on Saturday. Even though they lost, the Mustangs' still made a splash at the plate and bumped their average scoring up to 6.1 runs per game (they're now ranked -1th in scoring overall).

Ayden Montes and Cade Liebsack did some serious damage despite the final result: Montes scored a run while going 3-for-5, while Liebsack scored two runs while going 1-for-3. The dominant performance also gave Liebsack a new career-high in RBI (two). Jacob Henderson also deserves some recognition as he got his first hits of the season.

Even though they lost, Pershing County was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .405. That's the best batting average they've posted all season.

Pershing County now has a losing record of 3-4. As for North Tahoe, they pushed their record up to 5-1 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season.

When Pershing County and North Tahoe next hit the field, they'll be up against teams who recently just can't seem to lose. Pershing County will challenge West Wendover and their three-game winning streak at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. Meanwhile, North Tahoe will try to stop Yerington's four-game winning streak when they meet at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday.