With its March 12 matchup against Blanchet rained out, the Ballard High School baseball team officially got underway March 13 with a 13-11 loss to Oak Harbor in a nonleague game.

The Beavers got off to a hot start, leading 5-0 after the first inning and 7-0 after the second.

Coach John Lamm said he was saving his two senior pitcher for the rescheduled Blanchet game March 15, and using three pitchers with little to no varsity experience eventually caught up with Ballard.

Oak Harbor scored nine runs in two innings with the help of 10 walks and five errors from the Beavers.

Despite better hitting, it's hard to win when you give the other team 10 extra base runners, Lamm said.

But, he said it was more important to evaluate his new pitchers in this game than use his seniors.

Lamm said he was happy with Ballard's offense, especially from senior Kyler Korsmo and freshman Roy Graf-Brennen.

Korsmo finished two-for-four with two runs scored, two RBIs, a double and a home run.

Graf-Brennen was two-for-three with two RBIs, a triple and a stolen base.

Lamm said he saw a good learning curve in the first game of the season as well as some things that don't show up on a stat sheet.

"We just have a lot more class this year," he said. "We handled some tough calls correctly. We didn't get into it with other players or the umps. It was awesome."

Ballard's rescheduled game against Blanchet is at 3:30 p.m. on March 15 at Whitman Middle School.