Elk Mound splits close games
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By Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
In a 24-hour stretch May 24 and 25, the Elk Mound baseball team used a no-hit performance by pitcher Ryan Bohl for a 2-0 win over Mondovi, and lost a one-run game, 3-2, against Spring Valley.
A third game scheduled for May 27 at Durand was cancelled due to cold and rainy weather.
The Mounders are now 7-3 in conference and overall following the split. Elk Mound hosts two of its three games this week beginning with Elmwood/Plum City Tuesday and Glenwood City on Friday. In between, the Mounders play in Durand on Thursday. The regular season will close with a game at unbeaten Boyceville on Monday, June 7 and a non-conference home contest with Fall Creek the following day.
WIAA Division 3 playoffs begin on Thursday, June 10 with regionals.
Mondovi
The Buffaloes threw their ace Tanner Marsh against the Mounders and he gave up two runs to the Mounders in the second inning. Ethan Johnson started things with a double and moved up on a ground ball out by Bohl. He scored on a Buffalo error off the bat of Nate Lew, and Lew eventually scored on a base hit by Avery Kaanta.
Kaanta was 2-for-3 at the plate and Johnson batted 2-for-4 with a double. Bohl whiffed eight Buffaloes while issuing three free passes in seven innings for the shut out and no-hitter.
Spring Valley
The Mounders faced yet another team’s leading pitcher when they faced the Cardinal’s Michael Bauer in Spring Valley Tuesday afternoon, May 25.
After three scoreless innings, the Mounders finally broke through against Bauer with a run in the top of the fourth. Lew singled and moved to third on a base hit by Jerome Delikowski and came in on a Kaanta sacrifice fly.
Spring Valley moved ahead with two runs in the fifth on a Mounder error, a double and a single, but Elk Mound responded with a tally to tie it when Ethan Johnson reached on an error, went to second on yet another error and scored on Lew’s solid double.
The Mounders went down in order in the seventh, and the Cardinal’s first batter in the bottom of the inning singled and ended up scoring the winning run on a wild pitch and a couple of Mounder miscues in the field.
Kaden Russo pitched a pretty solid game but absorbed the loss, giving up seven hits with a pair of Ks and no walks.