Glenwood City boys drop pair of baseball games to Mondovi and Elk Mound
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GLENWOOD CITY senior Peyton Theune fired the baseball to first base to record an out during an April 29 home game against Mondovi. The Hilltoppers lost 11-2. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Glenwood City’s three-game winning streak on the baseball diamond came to an end with a pair of losses to conference foes last week.
In a Monday, April 29 home contest versus Mondovi, last season’s conference champions, Glenwood City had a couple of bad innings and lost 11-2 to the Buffaloes.
Four days later they played unbeaten and state-ranked Elk Mound on its home field and were shut out 13-0 in five innings after surrendering ten runs in the opening inning.
Glenwood City (3-7, 4-7) was in Spring Valley Monday and will host rival Boyceville this Thursday. The Hilltoppers will welcome Colfax next Monday, May 13.
Mondovi
A pair of second inning runs gave Glenwood City an early 2-1 advantage when they hosted Mondovi in a Monday, April 29 Dunn-St. Croix Conference contest.
That score held until the top of the fourth when the Buffaloes scored three times to take a 4-2 lead. The visitors broke open the game with a six-run fifth and added another run in the top of the seventh to post the 11-2 win.
Glenwood City managed just three hits in the game – singles by Steven Booth, Peyton Theune and Brody Riba. Mondovi finished with seven hits.
The Hilltoppers used three pitchers in the game. Theune went four innings, surrendering four runs on two hits. He struckout five but walked four. Caleb Klinger was on the mound for two innings and gave up just a hit and a run and walked three. Steven Booth allowed six Mondovi runs on four hits and walked three Buffalo batters in an inning on the pitching mound.
HILLTOPPER Brody Riba took a swing at a pitch during a Dunn-St. Croix baseball game in Elk Mound Friday, May 3. Glenwood City was blanked 13-0 by the unbeaten and state-ranked Mounders.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
Elk Mound
Batting through its order nearly two times in the first inning, Elk Mound took a commanding 10-0 lead over visiting Glenwood City in last Friday’s conference contest at Village Park and never looked back.
The Mounders went on to secure a 13-0 shut out in five innings as Kaden Russo, Victor Noller and Peyton Vieth combined to allow just a single Hilltopper hit. That hit, a single by GC’s Jacob Hager, was credited to Russo, who started on the mound and gave three solid innings to earn the victory with six strikeouts and no walks. Noller and Vieth each threw one inning of hitless and scoreless ball. Noller struck out three while Vieth whiffed a pair and walked two.
Elk Mound added a single run in the bottom of the third and two more in its half of the fourth to bring the scoring to a conclusion.
Eight different players accounted for the Mounders eight hits.
Glenwood City senior Steven Booth started on the pitching mound but made it through just one inning. He allowed ten runs on five hits and three walks with just one strikeout to suffer the loss. Blake Fayerweather came on in the second inning and gave up three runs and three hits and walked four with a strikeout in three innings of work.