Colfax softball team slams Spring Valley Cardinals, loses to Stanley-Boyd Orioles
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COLFAX’S Brynn Sikora singled off this pitch during the Vikings 28-0 road win at Spring Valley on April 10.
—photo by Brittany Beyer
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
The Lady Vikings moved to 2-0 in Dunn-St. Croix Conference play with a whopping 28-0 road win over the Spring Valley Cardinals Thursday, April 10, but 24 hours later played a non-conference contest at home against Stanley-Boyd and lost to the Orioles 13-6.
Colfax has a pair of conference games this week. It hosted Elk Mound Monday and will be in
Elmwood this Thursday, April 17 to face the Wolves of Elmwood/Plum City. Next Monday and Tuesday, April 21 and 22, the Vikings have road games at Cochrane-Fountain City and in Glenwood City, respectively.
Spring Valley
The Vikings banged out 15 hits and drew 14 walks while getting hit by pitches 4 times in the four inning contest. They also managed to steal 12 bases in the short game which saw Colfax defeat Spring Valley 28-0.
Laikyn Beyer hurled the first three innings, striking out seven Cardinal batters while walking two and allowing one hit. Lyric Nichols tossed the final inning for the team.
Colfax scored in every inning, starting with two in the first, nine in the second, a single run in the third, then burst through the flood gates with 16 in the fourth. After Spring Valley failed to score in the bottom of the fourth, the game ended early according to WIAA rules.
Kenlee Bjork was one of several Vikings to have a successful day at the plate as she brought in four runs on two hits and scored three times. Beyer scored four times, picked up four RBIs and stole three bases, Aleah Schindler crossed home plate four times and knocked in a pair of runs, Alleah Kunsman smacked three hits and collected five RBIs while scoring three times while Brynn Sikora came home four times and swiped four bases.
Stanley-Boyd
The Vikings may have been tired from running around the bases the day before and they probably wished they could have saved some of those runs for this game. Stanley-Boyd, playing in a highly competitive Cloverbelt West Conference was 4-0 when the game started and were playing under a new head coach. (They went on to win two games the next day by a combined total of 21-1 over Black River Falls and Mondovi).Colfax hung with them through five innings and even had a chance to pull ahead but just didn’t get the timely hits in this contest.
Colfax fell behind 4-0 before Sikora smashed a two-run home run in the bottom of the third inning. Stanley-Boyd picked up four more runs in the fourth with help from an RBI double from Bailey Sikora to up their lead to 8-2.
The Vikings battled back in the bottom of the inning when Bjork was safe on a pop up over the pitcher to start things off and Hannah Peterson doubled. A wild pitch brought a run in, Olivia Schindler singled, Emma Medin was safe at first on a slow roller to third and after another wild pitch, Nichols also beat out a grounder and when the inning ended, Colfax was down 8-5.
The Vikings added another run in their half of the fifth after Beyer sent a ground ball through the infield, Peterson was safe on a swinging bunt and Audrey Ebert sent a smash off the third baseman’s glove for her second RBI of the game. The next three batters went out however to end the inning.
The Orioles added three runs in the sixth and finished off with two more in the seventh, and although the Vikings were hitting the ball pretty solid, the Oriole defense was making some pretty good plays in the outfield to keep them off the base paths.
Beyer pitched all seven innings, allowing 15 hits with nine Ks and five free passes. She batted 2-for-4 and scored twice while Ebert was also 2-4 with two RBIs. Brynn Sikora added two RBIs with her homer while Nichols picked up an RBI.