Toppers win three straight baseball games
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The Glenwood City baseball team showed some hot bats last week and the result was its first multiple game winning streak of the season.
The Hilltoppers collected 35 hits as they won all three of their games including a pair of conference contests.
The winning streak began at home last Monday, April 22 when Glenwood City defeated the visiting Wolves of Elmwood-Plum City 12-2 in a five-inning Dunn-St. Croix match-up. Three days later, the Hilltoppers headed to Durand for another conference game and prevailed 11-3 against Durand-Arkansaw. Then on Saturday, Glenwood City traveled to Prairie Farm where they scored a third straight triumph by a 11-8 decision.
With three consecutive victories, the Hilltoppers improved to 3-5 in league play, good for fourth place, and 4-5 overall.
Glenwood City has a pair of Dunn-St. Croix games on slate for this week. The Hilltoppers hosted defending conference champion Mondovi on Monday and then play unbeaten Elk Mound, this season’s current league leader, on the Mounders’ home turf on Thursday. The Toppers were scheduled to host a non-conference game with the Cornell/Lake Holcombe cooperative this Friday but that contest has now been cancelled. Next Monday, May 6, Glenwood City will be in Spring Valley.
Elmwood-Plum City
Glenwood City had seven hits and took advantage of nine walks and five Wolves’ errors to post a five-inning, 12-2 home victory over winless Elmwood-Plum City April 22.
The Hilltoppers also got a great pitching effort from senior Steven Booth who allowed just two Wolves hits in five innings and finished with five strikeouts against three walks to earn the complete game victory.
Elmwood-Plum City opened the game with a pair of first-inning runs for an early lead, but Glenwood City knotted the contest with two scores in the bottom of the second. The Hilltoppers did score three more times in the third, twice in the fourth and then ended the game in the fifth with five runs.
Blake Fayerweather finished 2-for-2 at the plate with a couple of RBIs and two runs scored. Jacob Hager also collected two hits and made it home three times in the game. Peyton Theune, Corey Strong and Booth accounted for Glenwood City’s other three hits.
Glenwood City did commit a pair of errors.
Durand-Arkansaw
Glenwood City roughed up a pair of Durand-Arkansaw pitchers for 15 hits when they played on the Panthers’ home turf at Wane Field last Thursday, April 25.
The result was a 11-3 conference win for the Hilltoppers, just their third league victory this year.
Glenwood City enjoyed another strong outing on the mound, this time by senior Peyton Theune, who tossed all seven innings to earn the win. Theune struck out ten Panther batters while walking just three and allowed all three Durand-Arkansaw runs on five hits to get the win.
The game was scoreless until the top of the third when the Hilltoppers put four runs on the scoreboard. Glenwood City added a pair of runs in both the fourth and fifth frames and three in the sixth for an 11-0 advantage.
Durand-Arkansaw extended the game to the full seven innings when it scored all three of its runs in the bottom half of the sixth.
Blake Fayerweather went 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and an RBI. Steven Booth, Peyton Theune and Brock Wood each had a pair of hits. Booth and Theune also tallied three RBIs.
Durand-Arkansaw committed three errors and Glenwood City had one.
Prairie Farm
A Saturday, April 27 game in Prairie Farm, saw the Hilltoppers earn their third straight victory on the week with an 11 to 8 triumph over the host Panthers.
Glenwood City scored at least one run in all seven innings with a trio of scores coming in the fifth and sixth innings.
Prairie Farm led 2-1 after the first but single scores by Glenwood City in the top of second, third and fourth innings had the Hilltoppers in front 4-2.
The hosts, however, plated four runs in the bottom of the fourth to forge a 6-4 lead.
That was short-lived as Glenwood City added seven runs over the final three frames to rally for the 11-8 win.
The Hilltoppers also finished on top of the hitting chart as they collected 13 hits including four for extra bases to the Panthers ten.
Blake Fayerweather banged two doubles, and had a pair of RBIs as he finished the game with three hits in four at bats. Corey Strong also finished the game 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Brody Riba and Steven Booth each had two hits and scored twice while Brock Wood and Peyton Theune both hit a two bagger.
Blake Fayerweather got the pitching win. He allowed six runs on eight hits, walked four and had seven Ks. Steven Booth tossed an inning and a third in which the Panthers scored two runs on two hits. Mitchel Main pitched two-thirds of an inning and walked one but did not allow a hit or run.