By Jim Rogers

Waterville lost metformin hcl 1000 mg side effects three games against Liberty Bell, but improved in the last game.

The first game the Shockers lost 20-0 last week, and 11-1 in the second game. Waterville hosted the third game and made it a nail-biter 6-5.

Poor hitting made the Shockers ineffective with only five hits in the first two games.

Tate Newcomb, the pitcher, took the losses.

Coach Damian Smith said, “We played a decent baseball game with some hitting and defense by the third game. Cristian Munoz threw a great game and ended up with 14 strikeouts.

“Our offense was finally clicking and we scored runs in four of the eight innings. Mars Chambers was two for four with two singles and Jake Day had a two RBI double.

“We lead the entire game but we gave up two runs in the fifth and one in the seventh inning to tie the game.

“In the top of the eighth inning Chambers scored on a passed ball and gave us a one run lead.

“They answered with a run off an error to go into the ninth, and then in the tenth they scored off a triple and an error.

“I’m really counting on the fact that we grew up a little in the last game and that will be a trend for the season.”

Waterville piles on wins

The Waterville Shockers baseball team scored 35 runs in three games against Oroville in last week’s league contests winning 11-0, 18-6 and 16-4.

“We 10-runned them in all three games,” said coach Damian Smith, who referred to the rule that the game is called after one team leads by 10 runs.

Jacob Sayan pitched a shut-out, holding Oroville to two hits in the first game. Sayan had his breaking ball working, and Waterville played solid defense.

Smith said, “It was nice to get a win under our belt. Jesse Tollackson and Sayan both scored all three times at bat. Jesse had a triple that would have left a lot of parks that have a fences in left field. Mars Chambers hit a ball in the gap that scored an inside the park home run.”

In the second game, the start was slow with Tate Newcomb on the mound. Oroville was up 6-5 through five innings.

And then came the big inning.

“We put up 13 runs and held on defensively,” Smith said. He added that Marco Caballero had a big game at the plate going 2 for 3 with a bases loaded double.

“The third game started well with Tollackson’s triple with the bases loaded in the first inning. We put up six runs total in the first inning and Cristian Munoz took care of the rest on the mound.”

Russel Whitehall went 2 for 4 with a double and Munoz was 2 for 4 and scored three runs.