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Algoma baseball is playing for pride and post-season at this point, with a chance to knock Kewaunee out of a tie for the top spot in the Packerland Conference Friday at Perry Field.
After a conference co-championship and a 16-7 record overall a year ago, the Wolves have started the season 3-7, including 0-3 in the conference. They’ve been their worst enemy in many of those games, with costly errors that they’ll need to clean up in order to advance deep in the post-season.
However, they did get a highlight game from sophomore pitcher Charlie Prokash Saturday, a no-hitter with nine strikeouts at Waterloo.
The Storm, meanwhile, is 3-0 in conference and 5-2 overall. If it can get by Algoma, Kewaunee will travel and try hand the Vikings their first loss May 9. The northern Door co-op team is 10-0 overall, and 4-0 in the Packerland having outscored their opponents 28-4 in conference play. In three Packerland games to date, the Storm have scored 33 runs while giving up just nine.
On the softball side, Algoma is the lone unbeaten in conference play after Kewaunee upset Sevastopol 3-1 Tuesday. The Wolves are 9-2 overall, 6-0 in Packerland play, where they’ve outscored their opponents 67-14. The Pioneers are 8-3, 2-1, and Kewaunee 6-4, 4-2.
Kewaunee beat NEW Lutheran 19-0 in five innings Monday. Brett Paulson went 4-for-5 with a double, triple, four RBI and three runs scored. Connor Kilgore added three hits, two RBI and four runs scored, and Ethan Paplham, Brady Pribek and Alec Carlson each had two hits. Jackson Walecka and Waylon Delain combined for a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts.
On Tuesday, the Storm beat Sevastopol 7-5. Paplham and Delain had doubles, and Pribek and Micah Vanness each two RBI. Paulson got the win, throwing six strikeouts and allowing one earned run in four innings. Earlier, the Storm beat Oconto 7-4. Paulson went 3-for-4 with two RBI, Carlson tripled and scored twice, and Toby Kunkel doubled. Paulsen got the win.
The Wolves went 1-1 at a tournament in Waterloo last weekend, losing a lead late in a 9-7 loss to Mineral Point before beating Waterloo 13-0.
In the first game, the Wolves had five errors in the fifth inning, which led to six runs. The Wolves pounded out 13 hits, but stranded nine runners. Braeden Leist and Jacob Massey each went 4-for-4.
Carson Leist gave up seven hits and five runs (three earned) while striking out seven in four innings. Massey ended up taking the loss, going three innings giving up four hits and three runs (one earned) while striking out two.
In game two, Jordan Fenendael went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI. Chase Romdenne had three hits, Carson Leist two and Massey walked three times and scored three runs. Prokash walked one batter and hit another while striking out nine.
Freshman Ethan Kratcha threw a three-hitter with 10 strikeouts and no walks in Sturgeon Bay’s 2-1 win over visiting Algoma Tuesday. The Wolves had four errors. Carson Leist doubled and stole third in the seventh, but was stranded. It was the team’s only hit in the final six innings after getting two in the first.
Luxemburg-Casco beat Denmark Tuesday 7-6. Eli Derenne, Gavin Lax and Noah Chervenka each had two hits, with Derenne getting two RBI. A day earlier, the Vikings posted a 9-0 shutout, with the Spartans able to collect just four hits.
Breanna Riha’s two-run double in the third inning was key to Kewaunee’s win over the Pioneers. Vivian Bootz had three hits and Kambreia Last two.
It was quite a rebound for the Storm, who got bounced 11-2 at Algoma Monday. Macie Zimmerman struck out 11, walked five and gave up four hits in seven innings. She had three hits while Brooke Mattson, Nora Krause, Olivia Cabino and Jadyn Nellis each had two.
Mattson and Zimmerman both doubled, and Sierra Slaby, Natalie Ray and Nellis each scored twice. Krause, Madison Schneider and Nellis each had two RBI. Riha had three of Kewaunee’s four hits.
A day later, the Wolves blanked Sturgeon Bay 18-0 in five innings, with Zimmerman throwing a one-hitter with three walks and 14 strikeouts. Slaby was 4-for-5 with three runs scored and Natalie Ray went 3-for-4 with a double, triple and three runs scored. Krause doubled, Nellis singled and tripled (three RBI and two runs scored) and Zimmerman tripled and homered. Bristol Schmidt added two hits.
The Spartans beat North Eastern Conference rival Freedom 8-0 last week. Third inning hits by Emma Murphy, Rylan Kaminski and Kate Van Ess were among the biggest. Erin Cherovsky pitched a five-hit shutout with nine strikeouts and one walk. Two days later, L-C blanked Seymour 2-0. Brianna Bray’s RBI double was key. Cherovsky threw a five-hit shutout with seven strikeouts. The Thunder committed six errors.
On Monday, the Spartans beat Oconto Falls 6-1. Murphy had two hits and Alayna Deprez and Cherovsky each two RBI. Cherovsky gave up 10 hits but solid infield defense stymied some Panther rally attempts.
On Tuesday, the Spartans improved to 9-1 on the season with a two-hitter from Kate Van Ess in a 4-0 win over Marinette. L-C scored their first three runs in the fifth. Kacie Jorgensen had an RBI double and Riley Westlund a squeeze bunt.
Southern Door, Algoma and Kewaunee finished 1-2-3 in the boys conference relays last week with scores of 123, 112 and 110. The Storm was short-handed, missing 10 boys for the meet.
Algoma won the distance medley in 12:53.11, with Jack Meverden, Tyler Challis, Chance Rader and Alex Kirchman combining in runs of 1200, 400, 800 and 1600 meters.
Brennan Buckman and Wyatt Fay both went 12 feet in pole vault, six inches behind leader, and Fay ran a 47.31 in the 300 meters, also good for second. Braden Crewe earned second in the high jump with a leap of 5-10, Lane Cochart a third in discus at 129-11, and freshman Ethan Melotte fourth in shot with a 43-foot throw.
Getting firsts for the Storm was the 1600 relay (Joey Schlies, Martino Travinotti, Avery Jerabek, Trevor Gauthier), 800 relay (Mason Romdenne, Travinotti, Brex Witcpalek, Jerabek), 6400 relay (Robin Kunesh, Jay Kunesh, Alex Myers, Micah Jezowski), and high jump (Romdenne, Thyjsen, Bautista Culzoni).
Earning seconds was the discus team (Mitchell Boeder, Garrett Lefevre, Blake Bortolini), triple jumpers (Joey Schlies, Gauthier, Thyjsen), long jumpers (Jerabek, Gauthier, Schlies) and 3200 relay (Schlies, R. Kunesh, Jezowski, Gauthier).
On the girls side, Kewaunee, Southern Door, Algoma were 1-2-3 with scores of 133, 122, 61.
Kewaunee’s Hannah Miller won the triple jump (32-11) and Chyanne Robinson the discus throw (102-02), while Braelyn Witcpalek was second in both the 100 meter and 300 meter hurdles. Braelyn Chevalier and Gabby Stangel were second and third in the long jump.
The 4x400 relay placed first (Natalie Miller, Lily Hudson, Witcpalek, H. Miller), as did the 4x800 (Mia Ihlenfeldt, Milli Paul, Kaylyn Martin, Alison Szydel), and the 1600 medley team of Hudson, Chevalier, and both Millers combining for a 4:36.09 on runs of 200, 200, 400 and 800 meters. The distance medley team of N. Miller, Szydel, Paul and Martin ran the combined 1200, 400, 800 and 1600 in 14:24.34.
Algoma pole vaulter Estella Marrero won that event, clearing nine feet.
The Spartans got two goals and an assist from Emi Kuhn in a 3-1 win over Ripon last week, then goals from Cassidee Jacobson, Kuhn, Aaliyah Wallace and Maggie Pravecheck in a 4-1 win over Wrightstown Tuesday.
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