Edgar baseball wins conference after 24-year drought

The Edgar Wildcats are led by a strong core of seniors this season, and those young men have seen just about everything when it comes to sports.

They’ve reached state in football, track, most recently basketball, and are now looking to head to state for baseball. Considering they just won their first conference title in over two decades, those chances look pretty good.

“It feels good because I don’t know the last time Edgar won conference,” Edgar senior Kyle Brewster said. “It would feel good to go to state, not many kids get to make it one sport, so to do it four sports would be special.”

In a match that felt like a playoff contest, Edgar took on Abby/Colby in Red Arrow Park in Abbotsford. The co-op had Edgar on the ropes with two outs and down 6-5 in the seventh.

Austin Dahlke was able to steal home on a wild throw, and Ashton Schuett pitched lights out, fanning nine batters in five innings for the run. Edgar pushed the game into an eighth inning, and then sped away from Abby/Colby scoring seven runs for a 13-6 victory.

“When we got down we just knew that we had to get the ball in play and make them feel the pressure,” Brewster said. “They ended up making a couple errors and that led to some Edgar runs.”

Edgar picked up twelve hits in the non-conference victory. Drew Guden and Konnor Wolf led with three hits apiece.

Edgar win streak up to six

The Wildcats winning ways continued after they picked up three more wins to close out the regular season.

Edgar posted a 13-1 win over Newman Catholic on Thursday, June 8, and then extended their win streak to six when they defeated Auburndale in a Tuesday night double-header.

Edgar finishes the regular season 15-2 overall, and went 9-1 in Marawood South action to share the title with Stratford. It’s Edgar’s first conference crown since the 1997 season.

Ashton Schuett and Jordan Bunkelman led the way against Newman. Bunkelman recorded two hits and three RBIs. Schuett had two hits and four RBIs.

Konnor Wolf took the win at the mound, sending six batters back to the dug out in four innings while giving up no earned runs and three hits.

Austin Dahlke and Kyle Brewster drove in four and three RBIs in Edgar’s 15-8 victory in game one of their double header with Auburndale. Konnor Wolf pitched four innings and struck out eight and allowed one hit and two earned runs.

Guden and Dahlke tallied three hits apiece in a 14-4 win in game two with the Eagles. Ashton Schuett and Kyle Brewster shared pitching duties, combining to strike out five batters.