Mounders lose heartbreaker against Spring Valley, bounce back with win over Durand
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by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
In a matchup between a pair of top teams in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference, the Elk Mound baseball team forced Spring Valley to go extra innings before dropping the contest 2-1 Monday, May 3 in Elk Mound.
The Mounders showed their resiliency, however, when they came back three days later and dropped the Durand Panthers 8-1 in Elk Mound.
The Mounders, 3-1 in conference play and 4-1 overall, were on the road for games in Elmwood (versus the E/PC Wolves) and Arcadia on Monday and Tuesday, Maqy 10 and 11, respectively before knocking bats with unbeaten Boyceville at home Thursday, May 13. Elk Mound will then head back out on the road to play in Glenwood City next Monday, May 17.
Spring Valley
Ryan Bohl did everything he could to try and get the Mounders a win which included pitching a two hitter and striking out five Cardinals, while going 3-for-5 at the plate with a double and scoring the only Mounders’ run.
With the score 0-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning, the Mounders pushed a run across when Ethan Johnson brought Bohl home on a base hit. The Cardinals knotted it up in the top of the sixth and after a scoreless seventh for both teams, Spring Valley came up with the go ahead run.
Pitcher Nolan Stans then shut the Mounders down in the bottom of the inning to preserve the win.
Durand
The Panthers jumped out to a 1-0 advantage to start the game off before the Mounders knotted it up in the second, then collected four runs in the third. They then added three insurance runs in the fifth and stifled the Durand offense the rest of the game for the 8-1 victory.
Sam Roder earned the victory, throwing five innings and allowing just one hit and one run with seven punch outs and three free passes. Avery Kaanta came on for the last two innings and whiffed five Panthers and gave up one hit with one walk.
The Mounders had only five hits in the game, one each from Aidan Balts, Kaanta, Brett Rosenthal, Bohl who had an RBI, Joseph Javanovich who also picked up an RBI and Johnson who scored twice. Nate Lew came home once and brought a runner in.
Elk Mound took advantage of 10 walks in the game by the Panther pitching staff.