Whitnall Baseball Team's Struggles Continue

The South Milwaukee Rockets scored six times in the bottom of the fifth inning to erase Whitnall's lead en route to an 8-7 victory.

The loss was Whitnall's fifth in six games and dropped them to 9-6 overall and 4-3 in the Woodland Conference.

Josh Serio's two-run home run in the fourth inning gave Whitnall a 3-0 lead, and later the Falcons scored two in the fifth thanks to South Milwaukee errors to take a 5-2 lead.

But in the fifth, after Serio pitched the first four innings with four strikeouts, South Milwaukee displayed its patience by drawing four walks (another batter was hit by a pitch) in the six-run frame.

Marty Ordinans and Brent Sluka knocked in runs for the Falcons in the seventh, but it was not enough.

Whitnall will play host to South Milwaukee at 5 p.m. Tuesday.