Mounder baseball stays perfect with D-SC wins over Toppers and Cardinals
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Although it has played just three games so far this season, the Elk Mound baseball team is perfect.
After having played just one contest, which was an 11-0 Dunn-St. Croix win over Elmwood/Plum City on April 11, through the first three weeks of the 2002 season, thanks to the weather, the Mounders were able to complete a pair of home conference games last week.
Elk Mound won both, albeit in completely different fashions, walloping an inexperienced Glenwood City squad by a 31-0 count last Tuesday, April 19 at Village Park and then squeaking past Spring Valley, 3-2, in another home field battle on Thursday, April 21.
Those two wins upped the Mounders conference and season record to 3-0 with four more conference games on the horizon this coming week. The Mounders were to host its fourth straight home game when Mondovi came to town Monday. Elk Mound then hit the road for a pair of games in Durand on Tuesday and at Spring Valley on Thursday. Durand will then come to Elk Mound next Monday, May 2.
Glenwood City
Elk Mound feasted off an inexperienced and young Glenwood City pitching staff when the Toppers came calling at Village Park April 19.
The Mounders collected 18 hits including five doubles, drew 11 base on balls and scored 31 runs off of five different Hilltopper hurlers.
Meanwhile, four different Elk Mound pitchers were keeping the Glenwood City batters guessing all game long. Avery Kaanta, who started and went two innings to get the win, along with Kaden Russo, Kamron Diermeier and Joseph Javanovich, who each tossed an inning, combined to no-hit the Hilltoppers en route to the 31-0 shellacking in five innings.
Kaanta, Russo and Javanovich each had a trio of strike outs with Diermeier registering a pair as the four tallied 11 Ks in just 69 total pitches. Javanovich and Diermeier each issued one base on balls.
Elk Mound opened with an eight-run first as Diermeier, Kaanta, Carter Garnett and Ryan Bartig singled and Glenwood City starter Brady McCarthy issued four walks and hit a batter.
The Mounder pushed three more runs across home plate in the second only to add 11 more in the third and nine more in the fourth to account for their tally of 31 runs.
In the third, Elk Mound opened with five straight base hits and finished with nine in all including three run-scoring doubles. A couple of Toppers errors, a few walks and a couple of hit batters helped the Mounders’ cause.
The fourth was almost as successful as the Mounders scored nine more times.
Jerome Delikowski led the Mounders’ hit parade with a 4-for-5 performance including a double and he scored four runs and finished with six RBIs. Kaanta also tallied six RBIs in a 3-for-6 day at the plate that included a pair of doubles. Javanovich also picked up three hits in five at bats and scored three runs and finished with a trio of RBIs. Diermeier tallied two hits, four RBIs and scored three times, Brex Todd went 2-for-2 with a double, two runs scored and four RBIs, Carson Steinhorst also doubles while Garnett, Russo and Carter Vieth each finished with a single.
In all, the Mounders had 30 Runs Batted In (RBIs).
Spring Valley
Elk Mound knows if they are going to win this year’s Dunn-St. Croix baseball championship they would likely need to defeat both Spring Valley and Boyceville to accomplishment that feat.
The Mounders cleared their first hurdle in the run to that goal by beating Spring Valley 3-2 in a D-SC thriller last Thursday at Village Park.
Both teams were well matched with the Cardinals picking up five hits in the seven-inning affair and the Mounders six. The Red Birds committed a single error while the host Mounders survived a pair.
Spring Valley took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second but in the bottom half, a swing of the bat by Jerome Delikowski knotted the game as he sent a solo home run over the fence.
The Cardinals re-established the advantage with another run in the third. Spring Valley held on to that 2-1 advantage until some Mounder heroics in the bottom of the seventh.
Kaden Russo’s two-out, base hit off Valley starter Connor Ducklow sent a pair of runners home to give Elk Mound the 3-2 win.
Ducklow, who went six and two-third innings, took the loss. He surrendered seven hits for three runs and a pair of free passes while striking out six Mounders.
Kaanta started for Elk Mound and went an inning and a third before giving way to Kaden Russo who threw the final five and two-third with ten strikeouts. Russo scattered five hits for a pair of runs and issued three walks to pick up the win.
Ethan Johnson, Carter Garnett, Kamron Diermeier, Kaden Russo, Avery Kaanta, and Jerome Delikowski accounted for the Mounders six hits. Kaanta and Johnson each had a double while Delikowski delivered that second-inning solo shot.
Five different Cardinals had hits.