EM baseball comes up short at Chetek, easily handles Mondovi

By Cara L. Dempski

Elk Mound’s baseball team took its show on the road the week before Easter after playing a three-game home stand to open the season.

The Mounders headed north April 11 to take on the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser team for one more out-of-league game before opening conference play. Elk Mound had an 8-7 lead going into the fifth, but could not hold off the Bulldogs, who scored a pair of late-inning runs, to take the 9-8 lead, and eventually the win.

Head coach Paul Andrea and his team then headed to Mondovi last Thursday, April 13 to open their Dunn-St. Croix season by going head-to-head with the Buffaloes. The Mounders took care business and Mondovi with a 12-2 triumph.

Elk Mound closed its second week of play with an overall record of 2-3 and 1-0 record in the D-SC.

The Mounders hosted an April 18 game against Durand, and are scheduled to go to Eau Claire Regis April 20 before taking on Colfax at home the following day.

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser

Things were looking good for Elk Mound in the third inning of its April 11 non-conference contest against the Bulldogs. The Mounders were leading 3-2, when Chetek-Weyerhaeuser cranked out five runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 7-3 lead.

To be fair, Elk Mound regained the lead with a four-run fourth and another run in the fifth to push ahead 8-7, but the Bulldogs were not finished. The Chetek team had two more runners cross the plate in the bottom of the fifth, which was enough to retake the lead at 9-8.

Both teams played a stalemate in the final two innings, giving the Bulldogs the victory.

Senior Dane Lew came up big with four hits and four runs batted on five trips to the plate and a .800 on-base percentage. Blake Rosenthal sent in two more runners, and Hunter Adleman and Ethan Kjellberg each logged an RBI. Adelman had two hits.

The Bulldogs outhit the Mounders 12 to 9 and both squads finished with two errors.

Blake Rosenthal put in three innings of work on the mound to record a 4.67 ERA and the loss, while Kjellberg pitched two with a 14.00 ERA. Trey Mohr spent an inning pitching and pitched one strikeout and a walk over 11 pitches.

ELK MOUND 8, CHETEK-WEYERHAEUSER 9
Elk Mound…………………1  0  2  4  1  0  — 8
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser..1  1  5  0  2  0  — 9

Mondovi

The Elk Mound baseball team had good offensive production in second and sixth innings at Mondovi last Thursday.

After the Mounders had picked up two runs in the first, the team plated four runs in the second to lead 6-2, and then added six  more runs in the sixth to double their score.

Elk Mound, who allowed Mondovi to tie the game with two runs in the bottom half of the first, held the host Buffaloes scoreless the rest of the way to pick up the 12-2 win in six innings.

Trey Mohr pitched all six innings with a 2.33 ERA and recorded eight strikeouts over 76 pitches to record the win. He also earned two runs in two trips to the plate.

The Mounders collected 11 hits in the contest compared to four for the Buffaloes. Dylan Curry was a perfect four-for-four at the plate for Elk Mound with two RBI and Ethan Kjellberg went two-for-three and also finished with two RBI.

Elk Mound also had seven stolen bases including three by Curry and two from Blake Rosenthal.

ELK MOUND 12, MONDOVI 2
Elk Mound…………..2  4  0  0  0  6  0 — 12
Mondovi……………..2  0  0  0  0  0  0 —   2