Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association

North 3, South 2: Game 1

The first swing and miss was by the area meteorologists who predicted that today’s game would be a total washout, but with a very real threat of rain, the WBCA moved the start of game one up by half and hour and shortened tonight’s games to five innings apiece.  Detienne remained flawless, retiring all nine hitters he faced, striking out six of them.  Bleck never surrendered another base runner in his two inning stint.  He gave up the one earned run on one hit and struck out three.

Josh Steger from Lomira took over for the North in the third.  He surrendered a two-out double to Lake Mills’ Brady Henderson.  He got out of the jam with the help of shortstop, Ashwaubenon’s Eason Hurd who made a nice play on a softly hit infield ground ball.  

Mauston’s Brock Massey took over for Detienne, trying to hold the North scoreless for two more innings.  He ran into trouble right away when Oakfield’s Hunter Sabel grounded hard up the middle for a base hit.   It got a lot worse for Massey when he hung a curve ball to Green Bay Notre Dame catcher, Brady LaViollette, who drove the ball over the left field fence to put the North ahead 2-1.  The hits kept coming when De Pere’s Easton Arendt grounded hard to right field for a base knock.  He stole second without a throw.  After Wausaukee’s Connon Schroeder flew out to right, Hurd flew to center field with Arendt on the move.  Pecatonica’s Jameson Johnson caught the ball and threw a strike to second, doubling off Arendt.

Steger struck out Madison Memorial’s Cashton Jones but then surrendered two consecutive walks.  McFarland’s Braylan Roder lined a hard single to left field, scoring Sun Prairie East’s John Hadley and tying the game.  Massey held at 2B.  The game remained tied when Steger got Wausaukee’s Danny Cotter to ground softly to Schroeder at 1st. 

Massey retired all three hitters in the top of the fifth, giving the South a chance to win the five inning game in the home half of the inning.

Ithaca’s Micah Salisbury reached first on a seemingly harmless popup right in front of the plate.  Miscommunication by Steger and LaViollette allowed Salisbury to reach.  He got Henderson out on strikes but surrendered a walk to Johnson, to put the winning run on 2B.  Jones flew out to deep right, bringing Sun Prairie East’s John Hadley to the plate.  He grounded to the right side, striking Johnson in the leg for the interference out.

With the story from the weather professionals changing as fast as the Wisconsin weather, It was a agreed to play a maximum of two extra innings, with a ghost runner starting out at 2nd base.   Little Chute’s Charlie Vanden Burgt sacrificed Appleton West’s Ryder Hoffman, the ghost runner who started the inning at 2nd, over to third.  Sabel struck out.  Massey, who had pitched well since surrendering the homer to LaViollette, had to face him once again with two outs. Massey wanted nothing to do with him and walked him on four pitches.  Arendt came to the plate looking for his second hit of the game and delivered with hard single to right field, scoring Hoffman and sending LaViollette, who was moving, over to third.  Massey kept the damage to one run by getting Schroeder to pop out to center field.

Hadley started the inning at 2nd base and got picked off by LaViollette when Massey missed a bunt attempt.  Massey flew out to left for the 2nd out.  Roder singled for his second hit of the game, but got the win when Cambridge’s Carter Lund flew out to right field.

LEADING HITTERS:

    NORTH

• Hunter Sabel (Oakfield) 1x2
• Brady LaViollette (Notre Dame) 1x1 HR, 2RBI
• Easton Arendt (DePere) 1B, SB

    SOUTH

• Nick Guiduci (Monona Grove) 1x1 (3B), Run
• Braylan Roder (McFarland ) 2x2 RBI
• Brody Henderson (Lake Mills) 1x2, 2B

East 2, West 1: Game 2

The West All-Stars send Stevens Point’s Noah Marschke took the hill vs. the DI State Player of the Year for the past two years, Oak Creek’s Payten Jibben.

With one out, West Bend East’s Mason Roell doubled to the gap with one out.  After a groundout to short, Union Grove’s Marshall Loch drove him in with a looping liner to right.  Marschke got Cedarburg’s Sam Moses to pop out to end the inning.

Mosinee’s Keagan Jirschele induced a walk from Jibben to start the home half of the first.  Jirschelle stole 2nd and reached third on a ground out to short by Aquina’s Eddie Peters.  Eau Claire Memorial’s Leo Lauscher hit a ground ball up the middle.  Oak Creek shortstop CJ Trask made a beautiful nab of the ball up the middle and threw to first.  Lauscher was called safe on a bang-bang play, an RBI single.

Trask hit a curve ball over the left field fence to put the East right back on top.  His high school teammate Payton Jibben lined a one out single to right field.  After a fielder’s choice that put Kettle Moraine’s JJ Wolbert on 1st, Marschke got Takahashi out on strikes for the second time to end the inning.

Altoona’s Trent Cornell led off the bottom of the 2nd with an infield single.  He stole 2nd on a pickoff play and remained there after Hudson’s Bradyn Bezanson struck out as did Eau Claire North’s Chase Watkins.  Jibbens got revenge on Cornell when he picked him off at 2nd to end the inning.

Mason Roell of West Bend East hit one to deep left but Trent Cornell of Altoona made a great catch for the first out. Jackson Brewer from Homestead hit a blooping liner for the 2nd out.  Jirschelle made a nice play busting in hard from 2nd base to retire Loch for a 123 inning.  With one out, Loch exacted revenge on Jirschele who had just made a great play to retire him the previous inning when he laid out on a screaming liner that he nabbed as he tumbled to the ground for the 2nd out.  He also made a nice running catch a batter later when Carlson flew toward the line in left for the third out.

Milwaukee Thomas More’s Sam Mommer led off the fourth against the West’s new pitcher, Easton Stone from Rice Lake.  He swung and missed at a curve in the dirt for the first out.  Nicolet’s Nolan Sandee took first base when he got hit by a pitch.  Lake Country Lutheran came to the plate and reached 2nd on a flukey, two-error play.  He grounded to Prescott’s Cullen Huppert at 1st who threw wildly into center field trying to get the lead runner.  Cornell picked up the ball and missed everyone throwing the ball back to the infield, allowing Schieffer to take 2nd while Sandee held at third.  Stone struck out Union Grove’s Bobby Barerra on a wicked curve ball and got Jefferson’s Aidan Kammer to fly out to deep left when Cornell made a nice over the back catch up against the warning track.

Barerra came in relief of Jibben in the bottom of the fourth with a one run lead.  DC Everest’s led off with a hard double down the left field line.  Stone moved him to third with a pooter that Takahashi dove for but came up just short.  With two outs, Bezanson struck out swinging, with Barerra stranding two runners and getting out of a big jam.

Stone didn’t mess around with the top of the fifth, retiring the side in order on one strikeout and two nice plays by Peters at shortstop.

Barerra retired the West in order in the bottom of the 5th.  In the top of the 6th, in a game scheduled for six innings with rain coming, Stone walked Union Grove’s Landon Dessart to lead off the inning.  After a soft pop to short center field caught by 2nd baseman Abe Ahlberg, from Northwood-Solon Springs, Sandee hit a one hopper to Stone who fired to 2nd to complete a 1-6-3 double play to end the inning.

River Falls catcher Chase McQuade started the inning by flying out softly to short center for the first out, Peters grounded out to short, and Langbehn grounded out to short as well to end the game with a 2-1 East victory.

Leading Hitters

• Mason Roell (West Bend East) 1x2 (2B)
• Marshall Loch (Union Grove) 1x2 (1B, RBI)
• Payten Jibben (Oak Creek) 1x1 (1B)
• CJ Trask (Oak Creek) 1x1 (HR)
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• Leo Lauscher (Eau Claire Memorial) 1x1 (1B, RBI)
• Nate Langbehn (DC Everest 1x1 (2B)
• Trent Cornell (Altoona) 1x1 (1B, SB )
• Stone  (Rice Lake) 1x1 (1B)