{"id":51486,"date":"2019-08-07T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/offensive-struggles-plague-juneau-at-northwest-regional\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:15:00","slug":"offensive-struggles-plague-juneau-at-northwest-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/offensive-struggles-plague-juneau-at-northwest-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive struggles plague Juneau at Northwest Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau Post 25 pitcher Gabe Storie was on top of his game in his first-ever start at the American Legion Northwest Regional Tournament on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Storie, who threw four scoreless innings and struck out six, so too was the opposing pitcher Bennett Thompson from Medford, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson retired all but one batter to power the Oregon state champion Medford Mustangs (34-23) to a 4-0 shutout win over Juneau (29-6) in the first-round game at Harris Field in Lewiston, Idaho. The five-day tournament is the last stop before the American Legion World Series in Shelby, North Carolina, and includes state championship clubs from Alaska, Oregon, Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/juneau-looks-to-continue-historic-run-at-northwest-regional\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juneau looks to continue historic run at Northwest Regional<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He pitched a heck of a game, I can&rsquo;t complain,&rdquo; Juneau coach Joe Tompkins said of Storie. &ldquo;If our bats are alive then we&rsquo;re in the game.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson allowed just one hit, one walk, and rarely fell behind in the count. When he was pulled in the fifth inning, all but a dozen of his 60 total pitches were strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t really beat us on velocity, he just beat us on command,&rdquo; Juneau third baseman Christian Ludeman said.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon held on to a precarious 1-0 lead until the sixth inning, when the Medford club scored two more runs off Darin Morsh&rsquo;s RBI bunt and Thompson&rsquo;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>For a number of Juneau players, the game marked their first experience at the Northwest Regional Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The biggest positive for our guys is to see where they rate and how they do against the Lower 48 guys,&rdquo; Tompkins said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the biggest thing about coming down here, whether it&rsquo;s how much harder you have to work or how much more serious you have to take the game to get good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The temperatures on Wednesday in western Idaho were expected to surpass 100 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau will now face elimination Thursday morning against the loser of Wednesday&rsquo;s afternoon&rsquo;s game between Casper Oilers (WY) and Idaho Falls Bandits (ID). The other teams in the tournament include the Bozeman Bucks (MT), Kennewick Outlaws (WA), Lakeside Recovery (WA) and Lewis-Clark Twins (ID).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the tournament broadcasts by clicking the &ldquo;950 KOZE Sports&rdquo; banner on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koze.com\" target=\"_blank\">koze.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both clubs&rsquo; pitchers were on their game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":51487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-51486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51486"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}