POST 147 LEGION BASEBALL - Third time is the charm against Marshfield

POST 147 LEGION BASEBALL

Tanner Hraby allowed two hits and a run over five innings and Max Dietzman had three hits, including two doubles and two runs batted in Monday to finally get Medford’s American Legion Post 147 Senior team past Marshfield for the first time in three tries.

Post 147 won game two of a doubleheader at Jack Hackman Field 8-1 to improve to 3-3 on the summer and put one in the win column after two straight losses to the Post 54 Blue Devils, who sat at 8-11 after Monday’s twinbill. Marshfield held off a last-inning rally and beat Medford 5-4 in game one.

Medford outhit the Blue Devils 13-4 while controlling game two after erasing a brief 1-0 first-inning deficit. Emmitt Konieczny gave Marshfield that lead with an RBI single in the bottom of the first. He had three of the Blue Devils’ four hits in the game.

But, Medford quickly answered in the top of the second.

Payton Schreiber was hit by a pitch from Post 54’s Jakob Sadowska and Dietzman singled as Marshfield centerfield Aden Cherney just missed making a diving catch. Michael Borchardt walked to load the bases for Nick Steliga, who singled in the tying run. Dietzman scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch.

Post 147 doubled its run total in the third. JV Castillo walked, stole second and went to third on Braxton Weissmiller’s fly ball to deep right. He scored on Schreiber’s ground out. Deitzman hit a two-out double, moved to third on an error and scored on Steliga’s second RBI single of the contest.

Weissmiller singled and Schreiber doubled ahead of Dietzman’s two-run double that made it 6-1 in the fifth. Weissmiller and Schreiber singled and later scored on Jack Wojcik’s two-out hit in the seventh.

Hraby struck out three and walked there while picking up the win. Steliga covered the last two innings, allowing two hits and walking one. Post 147 got two diving catches in leftfield from Parker Lissner in the late innings and Schreiber turned a double play at third base to kill a potential last-inning rally by Marshfield.

Lissner, Weissmiller, Schreiber and Steliga had two hits apiece.

In game one, Post 54’s Mac Konieczny fell one out short of a complete-game win for the second time in two starts against Medford, while Sadowska got that final out in a pressure situation to preserve the Blue Devils’ 5-4 win.

Starting the seventh with a 5-2 lead, Konieczny got a strikeout but then walked Hraby. Lissner singled and both runners advanced on a wild pitch. Hraby scored on JV Castillo’s sacrifice fly to left and Lissner scored on a base hit by Schreiber.

That’s when Sadowska took over. Dietzman popped a single over third base and Borchardt reached on an infield hit where Marshfield first baseman Adam Gilbertson just missed a diving catch on the short looper. That loaded the bases for Steliga. This time, Steliga couldn’t find a gap, grounding into a forceout at second base to end the game.

Medford took a 2-1 lead in the top of the fourth. Castillo singled, stole second and took third on a throwing error. He scored on Schreiber’s grounder. Two walks set up Steliga’s RBI single.

But the Blue Devils took the lead back with a three-run fifth that included an overturned call at first base that changed the inning in Marshfield’s favor. Emmitt Konieczny drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly and Gilbertson added an RBI single. Blake Raab had an RBI single to make it 5-2 in the sixth.

Steliga and Schreiber each had two of Medford’s nine hits. Schreiber pitched five innings, allowing five hits and four runs, three of which were earned. He struck out five and walked three. Castillo allowed a hit, a run, a walk and two hit batters in an inning.

Mac Konieczny struck out four, walked five and allowed seven hits and four earned runs.

Medford was scheduled to play another doubleheader Tuesday at Chippewa Falls. Post 147 is at Stratford Tuesday before attending the three-day Antigo tournament July 12-14.

Marshfield 9, Medford 5

On June 26, Marshfield used a threerun first inning and a four-run six to outscore Post 147 by a score of 9-5 in a game played at Whittlesey.

The Blue Devils only had six hits in the game, three of which came in the clinching sixth-inning rally. They had just one hit in the first, scoring all three runs on wild pitches or passed balls after two were out to take a 3-0 lead.

Post 147 walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the first and scored two runs on an error on a ball hit by Hayden Strebig. Marshfield extended its lead to 4-2 on a successful double steal in the third and 5-2 on a Cherney solo homer in the fifth.

Carson Carbaugh singled to lead off the bottom, reached second on an error on a ground ball hit by Borchardt and scored on Schreiber’s double to deep centerfield. Borchardt, however, was thrown out at the plate also trying to score. Two strikeouts later by Mac Konieczny, the Blue Devils escaped the inning with their 5-3 lead still intact.

Two walks to start the top of the sixth led to an RBI double by Cain Toufar and a run-scoring single Gilbertson. Nathan Richardson added an RBI single and the fourth run of the inning scored on a wild pitch.

Post 147 made it interesting in the bottom of the seventh. Broden Schilling hit a leadoff single and Borchardt reached on a two-out error. Schreiber’s single scored both. Dietzman walked, forcing Marshfield to make a pitching change, but Richardson only needed one pitch to end it, getting Wojcik to hit a comebacker right back to him.

Schreiber went two for three with a walk and three RBIs. Carbaugh and Strebig both went two for three. Schreiber also pitched the first five innings and only allowed two hits. He struck out six and walked five. Borchardt allowed four runs and four hits while striking out three and walking three in two innings.

Konieczny struck out 10, walked six and allowed five runs and seven hits in 6.2 innings. Six Blue Devils had one hit apiece.

Catcher Evan Czarnezki hangs on to the baseball and makes the tag while umpire Ryan Hartl makes the out call on a play at home plate during the Medford American Legion Post 147’s home game with Marshfield on June 26. Blue Devil Cain Toufar tried to score from second base on a sixth-inning single by his teammate Alex Gilbertson. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS

Medford centerfielder Hayden Strebig sprints in front of leftfielder Carson Carbaugh and gets to a shallow fly ball hit by Marshfield’s Caleb Schaefer during the seventh inning of last week’s 9-5 loss. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS