The Raiders doubled their lead ….

The Raiders doubled their lead in the top of the sixth. Paulson again started it with a bloop single and was bunted to second by Finley Arndt and moved to third on Leonhardt’s single. Leonhardt stole second and both runner scored on Hartl’s clutch two-out ground-rule double to right.

Hayward got an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth and two more in the seventh. Greta Woelber doubled in one run and an error on a ball hit by Madi Bergschneider drove in the second run and put Bergschneider at second base as the tying run. But Miller got her 15th and final strikeout, setting down Avery Chucka to end it.

Miller allowed two hits and one walk. Medford had seven hits off Sprenger, who struck out 13 and walked none. Leonhardt was three for three and Paulson was two for three.

Hraby got the start in the championship game against Stratford and gave the Raiders seven solid innings, striking out five, walking three and allowing three walks, six hits and three earned runs. The Raiders gave her plenty of offensive support by jumping out to a 7-0 lead through two innings.

Miller hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first and the Raiders tacked on another unearned run. In the second, the Raiders hit only two balls out of the infield, yet put five runs on the board. Arndt reached on a one-out error, Miller bunted for a hit and Paulson singled to center to load the bases for Pilgrim, who singled deep into the hole at short. Miller scored on Leonhardt’s fielder’s choice to make it 4-0. After Hartl’s single on a high bouncer behind second re-loaded the bases, Seidl legged out an infield hit for an RBI and Huegli rolled a two-run single up the middle.

Paulson’s triple in the third scored Miller, who had singled, to make it 8-2 after the Tigers had gotten on the board in the top half. Stratford got single runs in the fifth and sixth innings but never seriously threatened Medford’s lead.

The Raiders had 11 hits off Stratford pitcher Laney Pankratz. Miller and Paulson each went three for four at the top of the batting order. Seidl was two for three.

“Everybody kind of played together,” Berndt said of the weekend. “Nobody got down when we made a mistake. They hung in there.”

Medford is scheduled to play at Woodside Sports Complex’s High School Softball Challenge in Mauston this weekend. The Raiders are slated to play Reedsburg at 9 a.m. and Stewartville, Minn. at 11 a.m. on Friday. They get Mondovi at 5 p.m. Saturday to close out the weekend.