By EVAN THOMPSON, sports editor
Halfway marks in a baseball season can be significant. With a little less than a month to go in the regular season, the Wildcats reached an even more important milestone this week, other than having a winning record through 34 games since 2008.
Central Washington’s second-day sweep over Northwest Nazarene University (18-19, 9-11 GNAC) has pushed the Wildcats into a first-place tie with Western Oregon University, who, up until now, had maintained a small cushion on the rest of the conference.
After splitting two games with NNU on Monday, the Wildcats batting at the plate, followed by two shutout innings by sophomore and senior pitchers Max Dickinson and Randy Button, respectively, helped Central win Game 1 on Tuesday, 6-4.
Junior Joe Castro homered on the first pitch in Game 2, which eventually led to the Wildcat’s 8-5 victory.
