The Juneau Post 25 baseball team took their first loss of the American Legion State Tournament Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The Juneau ball club lost to Service Post 28, 4-3, as the victor’s sharp fielding shutout Juneau over the final seven innings.<\/p>\n
Zeb Storie and Alex Muir were their productive selves, accounting for four of the six total Juneau hits, but Service Post 28’s standouts showed up, too.<\/p>\n
Raleigh Pigg homered, walked and struck out six batters in his seven innings on the mound. In the fifth inning, Cougars’ infielders Cobey Cupp and Jaren Childs turned a 6-4-3 double play to fend off a Juneau run.<\/p>\n
Juneau Post 25 must now win three games in a row to win the state championship. They play Dimond Post 21 on Friday in an elimination game for both teams.<\/p>\n
Dimond, who entered the tournament as the No. 5 seed, lost to South Post 4 in the first round but won their next two games to stave off elimination.<\/p>\n
Dimond accounted for one of the Juneau Post 25’s two losses over the course of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Stream the 3 p.m. game between Dimond and Juneau here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information of the American Legion State Tournament, visit www.alaskalegion.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"