Elk Mound softball wins D-SC games over Mondovi and GC, blanked by Somerset
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ELK MOUND third baseman Elisabeth Beskow fired a throw to first base to put out a Hilltopper runner while pitcher Hailey Meyer looked on during a May 10 conference softball game in Glenwood City. Beskow had a hit, walked twice and scored three runs in the Mounders 13-2 win in six innings. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
While the Elk Mound softball team surrendered a late lead and lost 7-6 to rival Colfax to start last week, the Mounders rebounded to win a pair of conference games before falling in a non-conference home contest.
Although the one-run loss in Colfax last Monday, May 6 was a bitter defeat that gave the Vikings not only the season sweep but its first Dunn-St. Croix Conference softball championship, the Lady Mounders were quickly able to put that defeat in their rear view mirror. Playing three games on three consecutive days, Elk Mound won two of three including conference road wins in Mondovi and Glenwood City.
The Mounders defeated Mondovi, last year’s conference champion, 3-1 Thursday on the Buffaloes’ home turf and then followed it the next day by taking a 13-2, 6-inning win over the Hilltoppers in Glenwood City. Elk Mound then hosted Somerset less than 24 hours later and was blanked by the Spartans 6-0 in the Saturday, May 11 non-conference game.
Elk Mound, now 9-4 in conference and 10-8 overall, will finish off the regular season with three games this week. The Mounders hosted Spring Valley Monday in what was the sqaud’s final Dunn-St. Croix contest of the season. They played in Fall Creek on Tuesday and host Chippewa Falls McDonell on Thursday. Both Elk Mound and McDonell received first-round byes in the WIAA regional tournament which begins Thursday. The Mounders received a number five seed in the Division 3 tournament and will have to travel to Arcadia (#4) next Tuesday, May 21. The winner will likely face top-seeded Prescott in the regional final on Thursday, May 23.
THE MOUNDERS’ Kendra Garnett is shown getting one of her two hits in a softball game at Glenwood City on Friday, May 10. Garnett earned an RBI on this hit to help Elk Mound win the Dunn-St. Croix Conference contest 13-2. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Mondovi
Singles run in the first, second and fifth innings were enough to lift Elk Mound to a 3-1 victory when it visited the defending conference champion Mondovi Buffaloes last Thursday, May 9.
Ellie Schiszik opened the game with a base hit, took second on a Buffalo error and scored on a Kendra Garnett hit to left field to give Elk Mound a 1-0 advantage.
The Mounders made it 2-0 in the second frame. Alexia Joachim singled to open the inning, took second on a fielder’s choice by Alexandria Solberg, advanced to third on sacrifice fly off Alexa Severson’s bat and made it home when Ellie Schiszik singled.
Then in the fifth, Elk Mound upped its lead to 3-0 when Schiszik reached base on an error and eventually scored without the aid of a Mounder hit.
Mondovi’s lone run came in the bottom of the sixth when Morghan Ashwell led off with a base hit and scored on a two-out, RBI double by Ella Taylor. Mounder pitcher Hailey Meyer struck out the next Buffalo batter to end the threat and then retired three straight in the seventh to end the game.
Meyer picked up the victory in the pitching circle as she scattered five hits and allowed just that one earned run. She finished with nine strikeouts with no walks.
Junior Ellie Schiszik accounted for two of her team’s four hits in the game and scored twice and had an RBI. Garnett finished with a hit with two RBIs and Joachim had the other Mounder hit.
Glenwood City
The Elk Mound offense collected nine hits and 13 runs while Hailey Meyer scattered six Hilltoppers hits in the Mounders 13-2 road win in Glenwood City Friday, May 10.
The visiting Mounders took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Elisabeth Beskow singled and later scored on a base hit by Kendra Garnett.
The lead grew to 4-0 when Elk Mound plated three runs in the third inning highlighted by a two-run double off the bat of Meyer.
Glenwood City scored twice in the third to cut the lead in half.
Elk Mound doubled its score with four more runs in the top of the fourth inning as Garnett and Teagan Mayer singled and the Toppers committed a pair of errors and hit a Mounder batter.
But, Elk Mound wasn’t finished scoring. It added a pair of runs in the fifth and the sixth frames to complete the 13-2 victory in six innings.
Meyer and Garnett finish with a pair of hits. One of Meyer’s hits went for a double and she tallied three RBIs and scored two runs. Jaidynn had a lead-off triple in the sixth and scored and Alexandria Solberg doubled.
Meyer threw all six inning for Elk Mound. She allowed six hits but just two runs and struck out eight without giving up a walk to earn the victory.
Somerset
In what was suppose to be a triangular meet in Elk Mound last Saturday, May 11, ended up being a just single game against Somerset after Osseo-Fairchild backed out.
Somerset pitched a no-hitter against the Mounders en route top a 6-0 shutout victory. Elk Mound batters struck out 16 times in 21 at bats, the minimum number of plate appearances a team can have in a seven-inning game. No stats or names were reported for Somerset.
The contest was scoreless until the top of the third inning when the Spartans plated four runs. They added single runs in the fifth and seventh.
Hailey Meyer allowed four hits and four runs with four strikeouts in three innings as she suffered the pitching loss. Elisabeth Beskow tossed the final four frames and allowed two runs on three hits with four strikeouts and finished with a pair of walks.