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Playing for the Waâ€" terloo peewee girls team, Jennifer McPherson gets a pass away in a game with Niagara Falls. Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff Waterloo Tigers can win like the best of teams or lose like the worst. In just four days they lost to the best team in the Interâ€"County Major Baseball League by giving up eight runs in the bottom of the ninth, lost to the fourth place team at home and beat the second place team on the road. Tigers most recent outing was their 127 win over secondâ€"place Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday in Toronto. They lost 12â€"5 to Niagara Falls Mariners Saturday at Bechtel Park and Thursday they lost command in a road game, allowing St. Thomas Elgins to beat them 12â€"11 with eight runs in the bottom of the ninth inning. But Tigers, who had a record of 917 after weekend action, have had good performances from four players â€" Nick Noonan, J. D. Yari, Tim Wilson and Tony Yacobino â€" that have earned them a place in Saturday‘s allâ€"star game in Brantford. Yacobino, the leading hitter in the Southern County Baseball Association with Nanticoke Pirates last year, has been hitting around the .330 mark. "I‘m pleasantly surprised with that," said the 30â€"yearâ€" old outfielder. "I thought I might have more problems at the start of the year picking up pitches. ‘"*You see a lot more fastballs in that league (SCBA). They keep the ball down more (in the Iâ€"C loop) but I‘m still getting my share of fat pitches." â€" Yacobino had a twoâ€"run double in the loss on Saturday Inconsistent Tigers have a ‘good nucleus‘ and had three singles Thursday in St. Thomas ‘"‘That was the best team in the league we had on the ropes," said Yacobino, remembering Thursday‘s game Mariners‘ Dave Snyder watches umpire Paul Collins call him out at second base after a steal (ampt. He was tagged by Tigers‘® Jody Pfaff t). ‘"We have the nucleus of a really good ball team here WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1988 â€" PAGE 29 Saturday, Tigers gave up 19 hits and the most damaging was a grand slam home run by Bill Jenkins in the sixth inâ€" ning. Frank Greco was another big threat for Mariners with a twoâ€"run triple in the fifth and a runâ€"scoring single in the eighth. Thursday in St. Thomas, Hache left the mound after eight innings when Tigers seemed secure with a sevenâ€"run lead. Losing pitcher Steve Konawal was relieved by Drago in the sixth inning after giving up nine runs on 12 hits. _ Elgins‘ Jacques Roy cracked the winning single in the bottom of the ninth. Three runs came on bases loaded walks and a balk called on Waterioo pitcher Bill Winger accounted for another run. ' Besides Yacobino‘s twoâ€"run double, J. D. Yari hit a runâ€"scoring single and winning pitcher Chris Black walked in two runs in the seventh. Tigers host London Majors Sunday at 8 at Bechtel Park. Taylor had three of Tigers‘ 13 hits while Terry Boegel and Wilson each hit safely twice. Winning pitcher Dave Drago was relieved by Serge Hache after five innings. Maple Leafs had 11 hits, led by the twoâ€"hit perfor mances of Jim Wojcik, Kyle Rudling and Tom Parisi We‘re making a lot of mistakes that are costing us close ball games. Hopefully we‘ll turn things around." Tigers may have started to turn things around Sunday Jim Taylor returned from vacation to hit a grand slam home run that broke a 5â€"5 tie with Maple Leafs