Lady Mounders defeat Elmwood/Plum City, lose in extra innings to Glenwood
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JUNIOR DYNAMO McKenna Diermeier is shown throwing a pitch during the Mounders’ 10-inning, 7-4 loss to Glenwood City last Friday, June 4. Diermeier not only threw all ten innings but she had a pair of hits, a triple and a double, and scored two of Elk Mound’s four runs.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
The Elk Mound softball team were involved with two close home games last week, resulting in a 3-0 win over Elmwood/Plum City Tuesday, June 1, then lost in extra innings to the Dunn-St. Croix Conference champion Glenwood City Hilltoppers 7-4 Friday, June 4.
Elk Mound, 8-4 in the Dunn-St. Croix and 10-8 overall, played in Boyceville June 7 and hosted Durand Tuesday, June 8 to wrap up the conference and regular season. The Lady Mounders will receive a bye in the first round of regional play in Division 3. As the number six seed, Elk Mound will play at Neillsville, the number three seed, next Monday, June 14. The regional final is Wednesday, June 16.
Glenwood City
The Mounders scored first with a run in the first, and the Toppers matched it with their own run in the top of the third.
Elk Mound quickly took the lead back with another run in the bottom of the inning and it remained 2-1 until the top of the seventh.
Elk Mound let a golden opportunity pass them by in the sixth when they had runners at second and third with no outs. But, Topper catcher Delanie Fayerweather noticed the runner on third had strayed off the bag and she zipped a throw down and she was tagged out. A ground ball out and a strikeout ended the threat.
Glenwood City, the defending D-SC Conference champions, tallied three runs to take their first lead of the game at 4-2 in the top of the seventh. But, the resilient Mounders scored twice in the bottom of the inning to send the game into extra innings.
Nobody managed to cross home plate in the eighth or ninth innings but the Toppers finally broke through for three in the top of the tenth and the Mounders were unable to make a final comeback to take the win.
Elmwood/Plum City
It was a pitcher’s duel as Mounder junior hurler McKenna Diermeier and her Elmwood/Plum City counterpart Ashlan Faber kept batters at bay and the game scoreless through the first three innings of the June 1 contest at Elk Mound.
It wasn’t until the bottom of the fourth when the Mounders scored a run. They tacked on two more in the sixth which were not needed as Diermeier shut down and shut out the Wolves offense the whole game allowing just three hits and struck out ten with not a walk to take the pitching victory.
Faber only allowed the Mounders four hits but it proved just enough to get the win despite commiting five fielding errors. Diermeier finished with two of those hits which included a triple with Morgyn Hallym and Laren Garnett each collecting a hit and an RBI.
Fall Creek
In a May 28 non-conference game played in Fall Creek, the Crickets defeated the Mounders 9-2.
Fall Creek scored runs in four innings including two in the first and three each in the fourth and fifth innings to best Elk Mound.
The Lady Mounders scored single runs in the second and sixth innings.
Elk Mound mustered just four hits in the contest including two by Kallee Rhude. Diermeier and Issie Hollister had the other two hits.
Diermeier took the pitching loss giving up nine runs on six hits and an equal number of walks. She struck out eight.
The Mounders also committed four errors in the game.