hit a sacrifice fly to ….
hit a sacrifice fly to drive in a run, Hraby singled in one and with two outs, Dustin Freeman knocked in another with a base hit. An error on a ball hit by Willy Johnson scored one and Westfall capped the rally with an RBI single.
Hraby’s single preceded Freeman’s two-run homer in the top of the first inning. Matt Jensen countered with an RBI single for the Twins in the bottom half. Westboro scored twice again in the second on a two-out, two-run single by Tucker Kraemer.
Jensen added an RBI double in the fifth for Spirit, who went three for four, explaining why the Trojans intentionally walked him in the ninth. Freeman, Hraby, Kraemer, Westfall and Marlenga had two hits apiece for Westboro, who had to work through injuries to starting pitcher Dakota Willemssen and starting catcher Connor Westfall during the game.
On July 1, Westboro scored six runs in the 10th to win 10-5 at Medford.
Westboro hosts Tomahawk in a key divisional matchup Sunday at 1:30 p.m., while Spirit faces Interwald at Rib Lake at the same time.
Rib Lake 10, Medford 2
Bryant Koniecnzy allowed just three hits and struck out seven in eight innings and the offense had big innings to start and finish the game to give the Rib Lake Osprey a 10-2 win at Medford Saturday night.
Rib Lake’s three-run first inning wound up being enough to win the game, but leading 5-2 going into the ninth, a five-run rally put the game away and boosted the Osprey’s divisional record to 2-2, while the host Moondogs slid to 1-4.
Konieczny did not walk a batter and neither of Medford’s runs were earned in his impressive outing.
Medford’s Gavin Fuchs pitched better than his line showed. He settled in after a rocky start and came within an out of going the distance. Rib Lake’s five-run rally in the ninth was all accomplished after Fuchs had retired the first two batters in the inning. The recent Medford grad struck out five, walked three, hit two batters and allowed 11 hits and eight runs, four of which were earned, in 8.2 innings.
Rib Lake didn’t hit anything particularly hard in the top of the first, but the Osprey dropped those hits where they needed to grab a quick 3-0 lead. Konieczny drew a leadoff walk and Jeff Ziembo lined a single to right to move Konieczny to third. Austin Ewan drove in a run with a groundout and Austin Edwards bounced an RBI single through the left side of the infield. After Joe Frombach’s fielder’s choice, Drew Hauschild dumped an RBI single into shallow center.
Ewan added an RBI single in the second to make it 4-0, but Fuchs and the Moondogs kept the damage to a minimum after the Osprey loaded the bases with one out.
Trenton Woebbeking got Medford’s first hit with a leadoff single in the bottom of the fourth and later scored on an errant throw on a bouncer hit by Trent Klemm. Rib Lake got that run back on a double steal in the sixth. Medford answered in the bottom half with a runscoring groundout by Mike Delzer, driving in David Hecker who had reached on an error.
Dawson Hauschild started the clinching rally in the ninth with a two-out single. Tucker Phillips walked and Hauschild raced home on Austin Zondlo’s infield single up the middle. Roy Stinson relieved Fuchs and got Koniecnzy to hit a fly ball, but it was misplayed, allowing two runs to score. Ziembo’s infield hit scored a run and the last run of the inning scored on a wild pitch.
Ziembo pitched a scoreless ninth, hitting a batter and striking out one.
Fuchs had two of Medford’s three hits. Ziembo, Ewan, Edwards and Phillips had two hits apiece for Rib Lake.
The Osprey hosts Pittsville at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, while Medford heads to Abbotsford for a 1:30 p.m. first pitch on Sunday.