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Cloquet pitcher Allie Jones didn’t just help her own cause at the plate, she amounted to most of it as the Lumberjacks won a tight Lake Superior Conference softball game 2-1 over Rock Ridge on Wednesday, April 30 at Braun Park. Jones had two of Cloquet’s three hits and both RBIs in addition to striking out 12 and allowing one earned run on four hits in a complete game. She delivered RBI singles that scored Paige Goranson in both the third and fifth innings.
ADVERTISEMENT After Jones escaped a first inning in which she allowed three hits but no Rock Ridge runs, the Wolverines didn’t have a baserunner until Chance Colbert led off the sixth with a walk. She scored on Ayla Troutwine’s single up the middle, but that was all the offense the Wolverines mustered. Troutwine had two of Rock Ridge’s four hits.
Wolverines pitcher Taylor Morley allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits. Proctor 14, Duluth Denfeld 3 The Rails busted out big-time in the fourth inning, scoring 10 runs to overwhelm the Hunters on Wednesday. In the big inning, Proctor stringed together five singles, a double, two hit by pitches and a walk.
Savanna Verhel finished 3-for-3, scored twice and drove in a run, while Kaytlyn Hamming doubled twice. Proctor pitcher Savannah Baker allowed two runs on six hits in five innings, striking out five and walking four. Hibbing 4, Duluth East 3 Grand Rapids 5, Duluth East 4 East came painfully close to a win on two different occasions but couldn’t finish it off on Wednesday.
ADVERTISEMENT In Hibbing, East carried a 3-1 lead to the bottom of the seventh inning but Abigail Helms delivered a key two-out hit that tied the game, and in the ninth, Addison Fisher laid down a bunt that brought in the winning run. Jossie Filiatrault took the hard-luck loss, despite three of four runs against her being unearned. She allowed seven hits and three walks, while striking out seven.
Emma McDowell struck out 15 for Hibbing without a walk, allowing three runs (one earned) on five hits. Against Rapids, East led 4-3 and got the first two outs of the seventh inning, only for Rapids to record four consecutive singles with Claire Larson delivering the walk-off hit. Lauren Pozniak and Kylie Zwak had two hits apiece for East.
Silver Bay 24, Carlton/Wrenshall 0 Madison Ollman held the Raptors to just one hit in the rout. Berkley Hoff had five hits, two of them doubles, and drove in four runs. Anna Klemmer went 4-for-4 and drove in five runs for the Mariners, who have won seven games in a row.
BASEBALL BASEBALL Esko 4, Rock Ridge 0 Connor Pearce pitched a four-hit shutout for Esko on Wednesday, striking out eight Wolverines. ADVERTISEMENT He also had an RBI single, as did Jamis Halverson, Sam Haugen and Bobby Thornton. Pearce and Thornton had two-hit games.
Tyler Reid went 2-for-3 for the Wolverines. Elk River 9, Duluth East 8 The Greyhounds couldn’t get out of trouble in the bottom of the seventh and lost on a walk-off hit on Wednesday in Elk River. East scored six runs in the fifth inning and led 8-3, but Elk River scored in each of its last three at-bats to get back into the game.
In the seventh, the Elks scored three times and won the game before the Greyhounds recorded an out. Breck Burns was 3-for-4 and a homer short of the cycle. Liam Brooks and Sjoren Helland finished with two hits apiece.
Duluth Denfeld 3, Hibbing 1 Hibbing 5, Duluth Denfeld 4 Both sides got something from a twinbill Wednesday at Al Nyberg Field in Hibbing. In the opener, a two-run single from Adam McGrew in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie. ADVERTISEMENT Brett Lapcinski went 3-for-4 with an RBI for Denfeld, while Blake Riccio recorded a pair of hits for Hibbing.
Denfeld pitcher Vinny Udd allowed just one unearned run on four hits. He struck out eight, walked five and came one batter short of a complete game. In game two, Hibbing put up five runs in the early innings and held on in the end, stranding the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position after Denfeld scored three times on three doubles and two hit by pitch in the top of the seventh.
Braydon Rewerz had a pair of hits for Hibbing, while Kadin Augustin picked up a win, throwing five innings and allowing just one run on three hits. Cloquet 7, North Branch 0 Bo Harriman was nearly unhittable for the Lumberjacks, allowing just one hit in six innings. He struck out eight and walked just two.
Niko Gentilini went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs in the victory, while Aiden Reuvers and Jack Battaglia posted two hits apiece. PREP SCOREBOARD ADVERTISEMENT BASEBALL Esko 4, Rock Ridge 0 Elk River 9, Duluth East 8 Hibbing 5, Duluth Denfeld 4 Duluth Denfeld 3, Hibbing 1 Cloquet 7, North Branch 0 BOYS LACROSSE ADVERTISEMENT Hermantown/Proctor 13, Superior 7 Grand Rapids/Greenway 14, Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 2 SOFTBALL Cherry 11, International Falls 0 International Falls 16, Mountain Iron-Buhl 6 Chisholm 16, Mesabi East 1 Mesabi East 6, Chisholm 5 Grand Rapids 5, Duluth East 4 Crosby-Ironton 19, Duluth Marshall 16 Silver Bay 24, Carlton/Wrenshall 0 Cloquet 2, Rock Ridge 1 Hibbing 4, Duluth East 3 Proctor 14, Duluth Denfeld 3.
