POST 147 SOFTBALL - Legion softball team rolls to another big win


Medford’s American Legion Post 147 Senior softball team used seven hits, eight walks and five runs batted in from Rylee Hraby to maintain its winning ways Tuesday in a 12-2 rout of host Merrill Post 46.
Post 147 scored four runs in the first, fourth and fifth innings to win the game in five via the 10-run rule. The team improved its summer record to 8-1.
Kailyn Haenel was Tuesday’s winning pitcher, going four innings. She struck out two, walked one and allowed just three hits and one first-inning earned run. Hraby pitched the fifth. She did allow a solo homer to Cadence Seliger but also racked up three strikeouts.
Haenel also had the big hit in Medford’s four-run first, smacking a three-run double to deep centerfield with two outs. It was 4-1 until the top of the fourth. Olivia Schaefer reached on a one-out error and Rylan Kraschnewski singled. Addison Brahmer’s double to left scored Schaefer. After Finley Arndt was hit by a pitch, Hraby sliced a three-run double into the leftfield corner to make it 8-1.
Schaefer doubled with one out in the fifth and scored following two wild pitches. Kraschnewski, Brahmer and Arndt walked. The first two scored on a Hraby hit and Arndt scored Medford’s 12th run on a Laney Hraby groundout.
Brahmer and Hraby both went two for three. Arndt scored a team-high three runs. Medford could have done even more damage, leaving nine runners on base.
Miley Krueger was two for two for Merrill and drove in the team’s firstinning run.
Medford also won the Junior Legion game over Merrill Tuesday 4-0 in five innings. Paisley Ried struck out nine batters in the shutout. Gracie Strama hit an RBI double in a two-run fourth. Leah Faude also doubled in the win.
Medford 17, Antigo 2
Post 147 made the most of its eight hits on July 2, turning those hits, 12 walks and six errors into 17 runs in a 17-2 rout of visiting Antigo.
Antigo took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Medford scored at will after that, ending the game by the 15-run rule in the fourth inning.
Post 147 won handily despite playing without starters Rylee and Laney Hraby and Arndt, who were out of state for a club softball tournament and the team lost Jolie Steliga to an ankle injury in the top of the first inning.
Haenel allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out two in the fourinning outing. The top four in Medford’s batting order –– Brahmer, Schaefer, Zayleah Leonhardt and Ava Hartl –– created havoc all scoring three runs apiece. Ava Hartl and Haenel each had two hits and drove in three runs.
Post 147 countered RBI singles by Antigo’s Baily Heinzen and London Chaney in the top of the first with a fourrun bottom half. Kayla Baumgartner lined a two-out double to drive in one. Ruthie Steinman knocked in the tying run with an infield single. Baumgartner scored the goahead run on a wild pitch and Kraschnewski’s bases-loaded walk forced in the fourth run.
The hosts put up another four-spot in the second. Hart’s infield hit scored one. Two came home on a three-base error on a fly ball hit by Baumgartner and Haenel doubled her in, though Haenel was caught trying to stretch the hit into a triple.
A six-run third made it 14-2. It included a two-run double from Brahmer, a run-scoring single from Schaefer and Haenel’s two-run double. Hartl hit a tworun single in the fourth. The game ended with a run scoring on a misplayed grounder hit by Haenel.
Edgar 4, Medford 2
Brahmer went three for three atop the batting order, but Edgar limited the rest of Medford’s short-handed lineup to three hits and used two late runs to defeat Post 147 on July 1 by a score of 4-2.
The loss ended Medford’s six-game winning streak to start its summer season.
Post 147 hitters struck out 11 times and walked only once while totaling six hits. Haenel threw strikes, walking no one and allowed just two earned runs in six innings. Edgar put the ball in play, collecting nine hits with no strikeouts in a quick-moving game.
Brahmer started the game with a triple and scored on a wild pitch. Post 147 had a chance for a bigger inning when Steinman singled and Leonhardt doubled, but three straight strikeouts got Edgar out of the jam. Edgar tied the game in the bottom of the first and took a 2-1 lead in the fourth.
Post 147 tied it in the fifth. Kraschnewski doubled, moved to third on Brahmer’s single and scored on a sacrifice fly by Steinman.