Elk Mound crushes Spring Valley and Durand-Arkansaw, loses to Ellsworth
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The Elk Mound baseball team stayed unbeaten and in first place in the Dunn-St. Croix with a pair of dominating victories last week.
Hosting Spring Valley at Village Park on Monday, April 24, the Mounders crushed the Cardinals 22-0 in five innings. Three days later, they followed up by pounding the Panthers of Durand-Arkansaw 16-3 in another five-inning affair played at the Bauer Built Sports complex in Durand.
Elk Mound’s hope of making it a clean sweep for the week were dashed when Ellsworth visiting Village Park last Friday and left with an 8-2 victory in the non-conference game.
The Mounders boys, 6-0 in conference and 6-2 overall, will hit the road for four straight road games over the next week. They were in Plum City Monday to take on the Elmwood-Plum City Wolves and at Eau Claire Regis the following day, Tuesday, May 2. Elk Mound will be in Boyceville on Thursday before going to Glenwood City next Monday, May 8.
Spring Valley
Elk Mound showed plenty of offense and strong pitching when Spring Valley visited Village Park last Monday, April 24.
The Mounders collected 16 hits and scored 22 runs off Cardinal pitching while their own pitching trio of Kaden Russo, Victor Noller and Lucas Johnson combined for a dozen strikeouts and a no-hit shutout of Spring Valley.
The 22-0 whitewash saw Elk Mound score multiple runs in the first four innings of the five-inning contest. The Mounders scored four runs in the first, six in the second, nine tallies in the third and their final three scores came across home plate in the fourth.
Carter Vieth finished 3-for-3 with a double, six of the team’s 21 RBIs and a trio of runs scored. Lucas Johnson also tallied three hits including a double in his four plate appearances and finished with five RBIs and two runs scored. Four other Mounders had a pair of hits – Ryan Bartig, Carter Garnett, Kamron Diermeier and Jerome Delikowski. Bartig scored twice and had a pair of RBIs, Garnett finished with three RBIs, Diermeier scored three runs and Delikowski tallied a trio of RBIs to go with four runs scored. Kaden Russo also had a double and scored three runs.
On the mound, Russo started and threw the first two innings to get the win. He did not give up a run or hit and finished with six strikeouts against a pair of walks. Noller threw a scoreless and hitless inning with three Ks and a walk. Johnson finished off the Cardinals with two innings of perfect pitching as he struck out three and did not allow a hit, run or base-on-balls.
Durand-Arkansaw
Ten runs in the top of the first inning proved to be all the offense Elk Mound needed to defeat host Durand-Arkansaw in a Thursday, April 27 conference contest.
The Mounders added a run in the top of the third. But, the Panthers responded with their only three runs of the game in the bottom half of the inning to make it an 11-3 contest.
Elk Mound, who tallied 18 hits in the game, added its final five runs in the fourth inning as it went on to defeat Durand-Arkansaw 16-3 in five innings at the Bauer Built Sports Complex.
Mounder hurlers Kamron Diermeier and Kaden Russo limited the Panthers to just four hits in the game. Diermeier, who got the starting nod, went three innings allowing all three Durand-Arkansaw scores on a trio of hits with a pair of strikeouts and two walks to earn the victory. Russo came on in the fourth and finished off the Panthers allowing just one hit and no runs in two innings of relief with four strikeouts and a walk.
Diermeier helped out his own cause as he lead the Mounders hit parade with three hits in four at bats, scored four runs and had two RBIs. Russo, Victor Noller, Ryan Bartig (double), Jerome Delikowski and Carter Vieth each had two hits in the Mounders’ win. Jake Osborne, Carter Garnett (double), Lucas Johnson, Brady Amble, and Caden Steffen-Ludwig each finished with a hit.
Vieth finished with four RBIs while Russo, Diermeier, Johnson and Delikowski tallied a pair of Runs Batted In.
Durand-Arkansaw committed three errors to the Elk Mound’s one.
Ellsworth
In its final contest last week, Elk Mound lost an 8-2 non-conference contest at home to Ellsworth last Friday, April 28.
Ellsworth outhit their host nine to six with the Mounders committing three errors in the full seven-inning game.
Although he struck out six and did not walk a single batter in four complete innings of work, Lucas Johnson took the pitching loss as he gave up three runs to Ellsworth on six hits. Victor Noller surrendered five runs on three hits in two and a third innings on the pitching rubber with three Ks and four walks. Carter Garnett threw two-thirds of an inning allowing just a walk during that time.
Ryan Bartig led the Mounders offense as he finished 2-for-4 in the game with a run scored. Kaden Russo and Lucas Johnson each had a double while Victor Noller and Jerome Delikowski both singled to account for the final two Mounder hits.