Glenwood City softball drops four conference games, falls to 2-9 in D-SC play
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GLENWOOD CITY’S Brooklynn Brite (#5) took a swing at this pitch during a May 1 home doubleheader versus Durand-Arkansaw.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
After winning two of its three games the previous week, the Glenwood City softball team dropped four straight conference games last week as its struggled to score runs.
The Hilltoppers lost both games of a May 1 home doubleheader versus Durand-Arkansaw. Glenwood City lost the opener 14-2 and fell 12-1 in game two.
The following day, the Hilltoppers were again stampeded in a home contest, this time by league-leader Mondovi. The Lady Buffaloes ran roughshod over the host Hilltoppers and earned a 14-0 shutout victory in the May 2 game.
In what was a rain-soaked affair in Spring Valley last Friday, May 5, Glenwood City finally scored some runs only to come up on the short side of a 10-9 decision to the Cardinals.
With those four losses, the Hilltoppers fell to 2-9 in the Dunn-St. Croix and 3-10 overall.
Glenwood City hosted Elk Mound Monday and welcomes Spring Valley on Thursday. The Hilltoppers play in a tournament at Gilman this Saturday, May 13 and go to Boyceville next Monday, May 15.
Durand-Arkansaw-Game 1
In the opening game of a doubleheader in Glenwood City May 1, Durand-Arkansaw put six runs on the scoreboard in the first inning and added another seven in the third en route to a 14-2, five-inning victory over Glenwood City.
The Panthers pounded out 18 hits in the game one as Katie Bignell led her team with four hits which included a home run and a triple with three RBIs and two runs scored.
Glenwood City, who tallied seven hits in the contest, scored both of its runs in the bottom of the fourth when Brooklynn Brite led off the frame with a single. Michaela Blaser followed with a double. A few batters later, Emma Bliese slapped a single that brought Brite to home plate. Then with two outs, Sydney Grant hit an RBI-single to score Blaser.
Brite topped the Toppers’ game one offensive charts with a 2-for-3 performance at the plate.
Maddie Klatt took the pitching loss as she started and went two and a third innings surrendering 11 runs, ten of which were earned, on ten hits while striking out one. Morgan Blaser threw the final two and two-thirds innings and gave up three runs on eight hits and struck out a pair.
Panthers’ pitcher Rylan Prissel earned the win.
Durand-Arkansaw-Game 2
Game two played out much like the first.
After Sydney Grant singled and scored in the top of the first inning for a 1-0 Glenwood City advantage, Durand-Arkansaw put up six scores in the bottom half of the inning.
The Panthers pushed home four more runs in the third and its final pair in the fourth to claim a 12-1 victory in five innings.
Glenwood City finished with four hits in the game while the Panthers collected eight. In addition to Grant, Madison Caress, Izzy Davis and Libby Wagner each had a hit for the Toppers.
Jenna McCarthy who started in the throwing circle and pitched the first three inning took the loss. She allowed ten runs on five hits while walking eight and striking out just two. Maddie Klatt threw the fourth inning and allowed two hits and three runs with two strikeouts.
Rylan Prissel pitched all five innings for the Panthers to pick up another win.
Mondovi
Much like it had in the previous day’s doubleheader with Durand-Arkansaw, Glenwood City gave up several early runs when league-leader Mondovi came to the Hilltoppers’ softball diamond on Tuesday, May 2.
While Mondovi’s ace pitcher Morgan Ashwell shut down the Glenwood City bats, allowing just three hits, the Buffaloes’ potent offense struck for five runs in the top of the first and added a pair in the second, single scores in the third and fourth innings and finished the game off with a five-run fifth to claim the 14-0 shut out victory.
The Toppers’ junior pitcher Maddie Klatt took the loss as she surrendered ten hits and all 14 Mondovi runs in five innings of work. She walked four and struck out one.
Grant, Caress and Blaser each singled to account for Glenwood City’s hits.
Spring Valley
The Cardinals held a 5-0 lead going into the sixth inning of a Dunn-St. Croix softball contest played in Spring Valley Friday, May 5.
Things got very interesting and a bit wild in the final two innings.
Held to just two hits through the first five innings, Glenwood City’s bats finally came to life in the final two frames.
The Toppers scored its first run in the sixth before stepping on home plate eight times in the top of the seventh to go ahead 9 to 5 thanks to eight hits over that span.
But, Spring Valley rallied for five runs in the bottom half of the seventh to claim the 10-9 win.
Seven Toppers finished the game with a hit while Michaela Blaser and Jenna McCarthy had a pair including a double.
Maddie Klatt took the throwing loss. She went six and a third before giving way to Morgan Blaser who only threw a third of an inning in the seventh before Spring Valley scored the game winner. Klatt was responsible for all ten Cardinal runs and nine of Valley’s ten hits. She walked three and struck out two.