Medford Legion team dominates doubleheader in Eagle River
POST 147 LEGION BASEBALL
Medford’s American Legion Post 147 baseball team picked up two shutout wins over Eagle River’s Northwoods Post 114 squad on Thursday.
Logan Baumgartner allowed one hit and one walk while striking out nine in five innings, while the offense broke things wide open with an eight-run fourth in a 14-0 game-one win.
In game two, Gavin Fuchs outpitched Landyn Hoeft, who shut out Medford 1-0 in the high school season, allowing just two hits, striking out six and walking three in a 5-0 win. Fuchs needed just 84 pitches to get through seven innings.
Post 147 took a 1-0 lead in game one in the top of the third when Parker Lissner hit a two-out, run-scoring single that drove in Fuchs, who had reached on a one-out infield single.
The floodgates opened in the fourth. Max Dietzman singled to right, but was out at second on a Miles Searles grounder. Tucker Kraemer walked and Ty Metz singled on the infield to load the bases for Alex Dittrich, who grounded a single to center to score two runs. Fuchs followed with a double to rightfield to score Metz.
After a balk scored Dittrich and moved Fuchs to third, Tanner Hraby made it 6-0 with a sacrifice fly.
Lissner started things up again with a base hit, Baumgartner drove him in with a double. Braxton Weissmiller singled to center to score Baumgartner. Courtesy runner Jake Eckert moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Dietzman’s single to make it 9-0.
Post 147’s five-run fifth included an RBI groundout from Hraby, an RBI double from Lissner, a two-run triple from Baumgartner and another RBI single from Weissmiller.
Baumgartner not only pitched well, he went three for three at the plate with three RBIs and two runs scored. Lissner was three for four with two RBIs and two runs scored. Fuchs was two for two with three runs scored and an RBI. Weissmiller, Dietzman and Metz had two hits apiece.
Northwoods only threatened to score once against Medford and Fuchs in game two. That was in the top of the fifth when a walk and single with two outs put runners on the corners. But Fuchs got a strikeout to preserve the shutout.
Offensively, Medford jumped ahead 2-0 in the bottom of the first. Playing as the home team, Medford got a leadoff single from Hraby, who stole second with two outs and scored on Weissmiller’s single. Dietzman hit a double the opposite way to left to score Weissmiller.
Weissmiller doubled, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Dietzman’s groundout in the fourth. Post 147 widened the lead to five in the bottom of the sixth. Hraby doubled, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Lissner’s sacrifi ce fly. Baumgartner, Weissmiller and Dietzman hit consecutive one-out singles to score the last run.
Medford outhit Northwoods 10-2. Weissmiller and Hraby both went three for three. Dietzman was two for three with three RBIs.
Medford improved to 5-0 in Great Northern Legion Conference play with a forfeit win over Minocqua, who was unable to field enough players. Post 147 was scheduled to go to Minocqua on Wednesday.
Medford plans to play in a tournament at Abbotsford this weekend before hosting Rhinelander at 7 p.m. on Monday and then visiting the Rebels at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
