DAIRYLAND LEAGUE BASEBALL - Woodticks clinch, Trojans rally for 10-inning win, Reds walked off

The Interwald Woodticks took care of business over the weekend and finished off an undefeated summer of baseball in the Dairyland League’s Small Division.

The Woodticks finished 7-0 in divisional play following their 13-6 home win over the Pittsville River Bandits Sunday afternoon in Rib Lake.

Logan Blomberg pitched all nine innings and, other than a rocky fourth inning, was in command. He finished with eight strikeouts, three walks and hit a batter while allowing just six hits, three of which came in Pittsville’s four-run fourth that put the Bandits up 4-2.

Interwald got a two-out, two-run single from Nick Gerstberger in the bottom of the third and Gerstberger singled in another run in the fifth. Pittsville stretched its lead to 6-3 in the top of the sixth on a key two-out single by Evan Haley, but the Woodticks finally grabbed the lead for good in the bottom half.

Michael Borchardt, Blomberg, Talon Scheithauer and Seth Borchardt started the inning with consecutive singles to drive in the first run. With two outs, Matt Mohr dropped in a double into shallow right that scored the rest of the base runners and made it a 7-6 game.

A five-run seventh put the game away. Interwald had five hits in the inning, including a leadoff double from Carter Scheithauer and a run-scoring double by Dalton Strebig that capped the rally. Scheithauer doubled and scored the last run in the eighth.

Interwald piled up 20 hits in the win. Talon Scheithauer had four of them, including a double. Strebig had three hits with two of them being doubles. Both of Carter Scheithauer’s hits were doubles. Gerstberger, Seth Borchardt, David Fliehs and Sam Gumz had two hits apiece.

On Saturday night, the Woodticks gradually pulled away from host Tomahawk and then got a little bit of a ninth-inning score before securing a 10-6 win over the Titans.

A four-run ninth seemingly put the win in the bank at 10-0, but the Titans got a couple of infield hits, there was an error and the game finally ended with the tying run standing in the on-deck circle after 12 men batted in the inning.

Peter Devine got the win, covering the first eight innings. He allowed just four hits. One of those base runners was taken out on a first-inning double play and another was picked off in the sixth. He struck out six Titans. Jake Borman ran into the bad luck in the ninth, but he did record a strikeout and got an infield popup with two men on to finally end it.

Interwald took the lead in the third on an RBI single by Randy Raasch. The Woodticks got two unearned runs in the fifth. Carter Scheithauer singled in a run and Raasch walked in a run in the sixth and Carter Scheithauer singled in another in the seventh. He had a two-run double in the ninth to cap a five-hit night. Michael Borchardt also doubled in a run in the inning and Gumz had an RBI single. Michael Borchardt had three hits and Raasch had two. Mohr had a hit, drew three walks and scored twice.

Westboro wins two

The Westboro Trojans won an extrainning thriller Saturday and a blowout on Sunday to surge into the post-season while finishing 3-4 in the Small Division.

The Spirit Twins appeared to have their first league win of the summer in hand Saturday when they scored four runs in the top of the 10th inning to take a 9-5 lead, but the host Trojans came right back