What is it about Wayzata when they play Minnetonka?

Ask the players and you might hear the word “excitement” in the reasoning – a sentiment coach Bobby DeWitt wishes he could bottle up and shake across the rest of the Trojans’ games.

“Our coaches are always giving us a hard time and telling us how we always get up for Minnetonka and how we need to do this in all our games,” said Bryan Tabery with a grin Wednesday after Wayzata beat No. 2 Minnetonka 6-3 for the second time this season (The Skippers beat them once, 6-5, in between).

“I don’t if we just have their number or if we just have good luck against these guys, but every time we seem to come together as a team and play a great game.”

The Skippers added a third run in the fifth, but again exited with three men on as Trojans pitcher Nate Heisick was able to get a strikeout and induce a ground ball to end the inning.

“He’s not fancy, he’s not flashy, but he’s going to hit his spots,” DeWitt said.

Tabery, leading off the bottom half, didn’t want to be the one to stop the good vibes.

“All the sudden, something in side of me, I just thought I was going to get a good hit,” he said.

That would be a home run, actually – a deep shot to left to tie the score. From there, the Trojans went off, batting around in that inning and adding four runs total.

“We’ve been waiting for it – our coach keeps saying we’re going to get a spark sometime and this inning just seemed to be that inning,” Tabery said. “Everyone got up and was running around the bases. It was just very intense and very exciting.”

Minnetonka left 11 runners on base total, including three on third.

“We didn’t take advantage,” Skippers coach Paul Twenge said. “We have to play together. If we make those mistakes – it’s a house of cards, it falls apart.”