West baseball falls in the final state championship game
On Saturday night, the baseball team lost to Cedar Rapids Prairie in the 4A state championship.
August 3, 2016
Prairie scored first, going up 1-0 in the first inning, but West countered and was quickly up 3-1 by the end of the third inning. However, from then on things began to go downhill for West. Prairie pulled out to a 4-3 lead at the end of the fourth inning. Following a top of the fifth inning that nearly lasted a half hour, in which Prairie put up 6 runs, West found themselves trailing 10-3. Prairie tacked on two more runs in the sixth inning leading to a final score of 12-3.