Mounders stampede Buffaloes, soar past Orioles at home
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by Marlys Kruger
Sport Correspondent
In what may be one one of the most bizarre baseball games Elk Mound has been involved with in many years, the Mounders came back from a 7-0 deficit to pound the Mondovi Buffaloes 19-8 in Mondovi last Thursday, April 29.
24 hours later, they earned a narrow victory over the Stanley-Boyd Orioles (7-5) at home.
Elk Mound, now 3-0 for the year, hosted Spring Valley Monday, May 3 in a crucial early-season Dunn-St. Croix Conference showdown before welcoming Durand on Thursday, May 6. The Mounders then head to Elmwood next Monday, May 10 to play the Wolves of Elmwood/Plum City.
Mondovi
The Buffaloes had their ace pitcher on the mound, Tanner Marsh who will play Division 1 ball for St. Thomas next year.Marsh seemed to be in complete control as he struck out eight batters in four innings while the Buffaloes’ offense scored seven runs for him.
But, Marsh was taken out of the game and the Mounders took full advantage of the Mondovi relief pitcher by drawing several walks combined with timely hitting to score 19 runs in the last three innings for their second straight conference win.
Nine of those runs came in the fifth inning to help them take a 9-7 lead and after Mondovi added a run in the bottom of the inning, Elk Mound scored six times in the sixth and four more in the seventh.
Nate Lew went 3-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs and scored three runs, Ryan Bohl came home three times, and Jerome Delikowski was 2-for-5 with four RBIs. Bohl came on in relief of Avery Kaanta in the second inning and gave up just six hits while striking out six and did not issue any free passes to pick up the win.
Stanley-Boyd
The Mounders used a pair of different pitchers in the non-conference battle with Sam Roder and Delikowkis sharing the duties in the 7-5 home win at Lions Park on the final day of April.
Roder went the first five innings, allowing two runs with seven strikeouts and three walks to get credit for the win. Delikowski came on in relief and gave up three runs on one hit and three Ks.
Elk Mound took an early 4-0 lead with a pair of runs in the first and second innings but the Orioles cut the lead in half in the top of the third.
The Mounders upped their advantage to 7-2 after five innings of play, allowing S-B to come back with three runs in the sixth, but the Mounders shut them down the rest of the way for the win.
Joseph Javanovich had two of the six Mounder hits for the contest, Aidan Balts picked up a pair of RBIs, Ryan Bartig drew two walks and brought in a pair of runs, and Ben Heath scored twice and took three walks.