One bad inning has been the unwelcome theme for Trigg County during the 2019 baseball season. For the third straight game, it was a crooked number that had their number in a 5-1 loss at Hopkinsville Wednesday.
Hoptown scored three runs in the second inning to back the pitching of Zach Caudill, who limited the Wildcats to five hits on the afternoon.
Preston Chaudoin singled, and Jacob Dilday reached on a Trigg error in the third inning for the Tigers. Ryan Myers singled to right to score the first Hopkinsville run. Caleb Bapp and John Duvall followed with RBI singles to complete the three-run inning.
Dilday laid down a perfect suicide squeeze to score Landon Snyder in the fourth inning to extend the Tiger lead to 4-0.
Trigg got a run back in the fifth inning when Jude Hunter and Andrew Syester led off the inning with singles. Keegan Slone reached on an error to load the bases, and Trevor Cortner drove in the first Wildcat run with a sacrifice fly to left. Caudill buckled down and got the next two outs to escape the jam.
Hoptown got the run back in the home half of the inning when Dilday singled and came around to score on a single by Myers, who finished the game with three hits and two RBIs for Hoptown. Layne Jorgensen and Duvall also had two hits for the Tigers.
Caudill picked up the complete game win, scattering five hits and striking out four. He didn’t issue a walk.
Syester collected two of the five Trigg County hits.
Trigg County (9-9) will look to snap a three-game losing streak Thursday when they host Union County.
Hopkinsville (11-6) will travel to Clarksville Northeast Friday and play an Eighth District game at Fort Campbell Saturday afternoon.