Wausau Woodchucks
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — The Wausau Woodchucks were one swing away from putting together their biggest comeback of the season on Friday night.
Down 8-2 in the sixth inning, Wausau rallied to score the final five runs of the contest and loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth. Unfortunately, the Woodchucks could not bring the tying run across, as Green Bay survived to take down the Woodchucks, 8-7.
Keagan Jirschele (South Dakota State) played a big part on the mound to give the Woodchucks a chance late. The two-way player from Mosinee pitched the final three innings for Wausau and allowed no hits. He struck out one batter and only allowed two Green Bay hitters to reach in his best relief appearance this season.
The defeat puts Wausau a game and a half behind Green Bay in the Great Lakes West standings with three and a half games to play. Wausau has lost two games to Green Bay this season by a combined three runs.
In La Crosse, the Ignite got down early but came back for a 5-4 win over the Steam. La Crosse took an early 1-0 lead in the second on a bases-loaded single from Madelyn Birling. Wausau managed to escape the inning on a 6-5 double play, only surrendering the one run.
The bats would stay stagnant for both squads until the fifth inning, where the Ignite offense brought home two runners on a pair of two-out doubles from Megan Mcginnis (St. Mary’s, MN) and Quinn Marnocha (South Dakota St.). It was Mcginnis’s fifth double of the year and ninth RBI, while Marnocha tallied her first double of the year and seventh RBI.
The Steam would go on to score three unanswered runs to take the lead, one on an RBI-double in the fifth by Grace Frechette and two on a Skyler Dietz longball to center in the sixth.
Wausau responded with a three-run seventh inning, tying the game back up on another Mcginnis double, this time bringing in two, and then taking the lead on a Mia Johnson (UW-Parkside) RBI-single.
Other scores from the Northwoods League- Great Lakes Division on Friday:
Traverse City 3, Wisconsin Rapids 2
Fond du Lac 11, Kalamazoo 9
Royal Oak 11, Rockford 2
Madison 10, Lakeshore 6
Battle Creek 12, Kenosha 5
Eau Claire 8, Duluth 2
Willmar 5, La Crosse 2
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