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Hornets and Royals baseball teams each advance to regional semifinal showdown

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Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/29/2024 - 12:07

By Derick Kelly

 

Postseason play began last week for Wisconsin high school baseball teams and the Seneca Royals and Wauzeka-Steuben Hornets each began their paths with opening round victories.

The third seed Seneca Royals welcomed the fourteenth seed North Crawford Trojans to town Wednesday evening. 

The Royals found themselves trailing 1-0 after one inning and 2-0 after three and a half innings before rallying for one run in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth to earn a 4-2 victory.

Jacob Payne delivered a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to drive in Gage Wall and give the Royals the lead for good. 

Payne (2-for-3 with a  home run, one run scored and two RBIs) and Wall (2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored) lead the Royals offense.

Dawson Davidson got the start for Seneca on the mound (two runs allowed on four hits and four walks with nine strikeouts in 5.1 innings pitched) before Kaden Roberts came on in relief to earn the win with zero runs allowed on zero hits and zero walks with one strikeouts in 1.2 innings pitched.

The Royals improved to 16-5 on the season with the win.

Awaiting the Royals in a D5 regional semifinal contest are the Hornets who advanced thanks to a 10-4 win over the New Lisbon Rockets.

The eleventh seeded Rockets opened the game with two runs in the top half of the first inning before the sixth seed Hornets responded with three runs in the bottom  half of the inning and four runs in the second inning to take a 7-2 lead.

New Lisbon would add a run in the fourth and fifth innings to make the score 7-4 before W-S added one in the fifth and two more in the sixth for the final 10-4 score.

Jonah Klema (2-for-4 with two doubles, one walks and two RBIs), Cohen Redman (2-for-4 with a double, one run scored and two RBIs) and Ben Bird (3-for-3 with one run scored, two walks and three RBIs) lead the Hornets offense in the win.

Bird also got the win on the mound (four runs allowed on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts in 5.2 innings pitched) before Cooper Lomas (zero runs allowed on zero hits and three walks with three strikeouts in 1.1 innings pitched) entered in relief for the save.

The Hornets improved to 8-9 with the win. It also moved them into a regional semifinal at Seneca yesterday.

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