SPASH baseball splits with Warriors

By Robert Whitmire

The SPASH baseball team split a doubleheader with Wausau West Monday afternoon at Plover Memorial Park.

The Panthers dropped the first game 5-3, bounce back to take game two 6-6 in 10 innings.

The Panthers sit at 5-1 in the Wisconsin Valley Conference, 9-2 overall.

SPASH jumped out to a 3-0 lead in game one after four innings of play. The Warriors took advantage of a dropped fly ball to center field to load the bases. Grant Hill stepped to the plate and cleared the bags with a grand slam to right center for the 4-3 lead. West put one more run on the board in the inning for the final margin.

WP- Grant Hill 6 ip, 4 hits, 2 k’s, 3 bb, 3 runs, 2 er
Chandler Fochs Save 1 ip, 1 hits, 2 k’s, 1 bb 0 r
LP- Dylan Trigg (3-1) 4 1/3ip, 3 hits, 4 so’s, 2 bb, 5 runs, 4 er
Reece Gaber 2 2/3ip, 1 hit, 3 so’s, 1 bb 0 runs

SPASH Leading Hitters-
Brady Franz 2-3
Isaac Perner double

Wausau West Leading Hitters-
Grant Hill Grand Slam HR

West found itself up 5-2 in game two following the fifth inning before the Panther bats came alive. Holding West scoreless over the final two innings SPASH went on to score two in the sixth and one in the seventh before Mason King hit a one out single to score Isaac Perner for the extra inning win.

WP- JD Schultz (3-0) 4 ip 2 hits, 6 k’s, 0 bb, 0 r
Reece Gaber 1ip 1 k, o runs
Isaac Perner 5ip, 6 hits, 4 k’s, 3 bb, 4 runs, 0 er
LP- Logan McCabe, 4ip, 5 hits, 2 k’s, 3 bb, 2 runs, 2er
Hunter Landrath 1 ip, 1 hits, 1 k’s, 2 bb, 2 runs, 2er
Chandler Fochs 5 ip, 4 hits, 5 k’s, 1 bb, 2 runs, 2er

SPASH Leading Hitters-
Jack Kelly 2-4 HR, 2 rbi’s
Isaac Perner 3-5

The Panthers travel to Merrill Tuesday for a 5 p.m. game, then return home to host Merrill on Thursday. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.