Elk Mound boys’ baseball blanks Spring Valley Cardinals, 13-0

By Cara L. Dempski

ELK MOUND — If you look at the statistics from Elk Mound’s home game against Spring Valley, it seems like the Birds never really had a chance.

The Mounders’ baseball team welcomed the Spring Valley Cardinals to the Elk Mound Village Park Monday, April 24 and proceeded to wallop the Cards into submission, winning the game handily in five innings 13-0.

Elk Mound outhit Spring Valley 13 to four.

It was the Mounders only contest last week as rain and cold postponed last Thursday game in Plum City until May 23. Weather also forced the postponement of Monday’s (May 1) game at Boyceville.

The Mounders scored once in the first inning and once in the second before opening up a nine-run frame in the third and scoring two more times in the fourth to earn a 13-0 win five innings.

Dane Lew and Dylan Curry led the Elk Mound squad offensively with three RBIs apiece and one double each. Junior Ethan Kjellberg recorded a double and a pair of runs batted in during the game.

Hunter Adelman, Carter Pritchard, Curry, Kjellberg and Lew each finished with a pair of hits

Logan Bergh, Adleman, Blake Rosenthal and Trey Mohr all logged single RBIs, and Adleman and Rosenthal recorded one stolen base each.

Senior Trey Mohr stayed on the mound all five innings for Elk Mound and threw 79 pitches. He allowed four hits and a walk, but struck out nine batters in the shut out win.

The Mounders improved to 5-0 in large D-SC play (7-4 overall)  and hold a half game lead over Durand.

Elk Mound will travel to Durand May 4 for a big game. It is then scheduled for home games against St. Croix Central on May 5 and Mondovi May 8. Glenwood City is set to host Elk Mound Tuesday, May 9.

SPRING VALLEY 0, ELK MOUND 13
Spring Valley………………0  0  0  0  0 —   0
Elk Mound…………………1  1  9  2  0 — 13