innings. He allowed six hits, ….

innings. He allowed six hits, three earned runs and two walks while striking out two.

“Nick Steliga came in and gave us five big innings,” Justin Hraby said. “He earned that win. We did a great job of manufacturing some runs. Jake Eckert found his way on. Peyton Gilles ran for him, Jack got a bunt down. Then Peyton used his speed to score on two wild pitches. Tanner then got on, stole second and then scored from second on an infield hit. Speed and smart base running got us our two runs in the eighth.”

Medford had nine hits off Spartan pitchers Kiffmeyer and Gavin. Dietzman was two for four, including a tworun single in Medford’s first-inning rally. Searles was two for five and Eckert was two for three. Searles and Logan Baumgartner hit back-to-back doubles with one out in the first.

Medford 5, Antigo 1

On Thursday, the Raiders moved into first place in the GNC standings, getting a 96-pitch complete game from Baumgartner and a four-run fifth inning rally in a 5-1 win at Antigo.

The loss was the first GNC defeat of the season for Antigo (5-1), who plays Mosinee twice and Medford in a four-day span next week.

Baumgartner won a good starting pitching duel with Connor Cornelius, who the Raiders finally got to in their long fifth-inning rally. Cornelius and the Robins just couldn’t get the final out, allowing Medford to build a lead Antigo wasn’t going to come back from against Medford’s ace.

The Raiders had one potential rally in the second fizzle due to a double play and they did take a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Baumgartner and Weissmiller led off with singles and Dietzman bunted courtesy runners Gilles and Tucker Kraemer into scoring position. Gilles scored on Lissner’s groundout.

Medford had one man on when the two-out uprising in the fifth got going. Searles singled to right, sending Hraby to third. Baumgartner and Weissmiller both knocked run-scoring singles to left. Then, after a passed ball put the same courtesy runners on second and third, Dietzman poked a single to shallow center to score both Gilles and Kraemer to make it 5-0.

Antigo put multiple runners on base in an inning for the first time in the bottom half with one-out singles, but a pop-up and ground ball ended that. An error led to Luke Bastle’s two-out RBI single in the sixth. Baumgartner set the bottom third of the lineup down in order in the seventh to sneak in under the 100-pitch limit.

Weissmiller went three for four at the plate, Baumgartner was two for four and Dietzman was one for one with a walk and a sacrifice to go with his key hit.

Baumgartner allowed five hits, no walks and struck out nine.

“Logan pitched a great game,” Justin Hraby said. “He hit spots and when they did put it in play it was weak contact. He’s a big game pitcher. Logan, Max and Braxton all had big at-bats in our big fifth inning. Twoout hits, clutching up, that’s why those guys hit in those spots in the order.”

Cornelius allowed eight hits and five earned runs in 4.2 innings. He struck out two and walked two. Mason Gray struck out three and walked one in 2.1 hitless innings.