Post 354 runs winning streak to six

A successful week for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Post 354 19u American Legion baseball team saw them rattle off five wins to push their winning streak to six as we move past the Fourth of July weekend and into the home stretch of the season.

G-E-T (9-4) has a road doubleheader against Arcadia on Thursday starting at 5 p.m., followed by a weekend tournament in Onalaska. They start next week by hosting West Salem for a doubleheader starting at 5 p.m.

G-E-T 6 Sparta 5

Post 354 successfully held off a late Sparta rally to capture the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams last Monday in Galesville.

Jackson Burns went 2 for 4 at the plate for the winning side, which included an RBI double in the bottom of the first that opened the scoring for the game. Sam De Jager, Caiden Brady, Mitch Thell and Tucker McDonah each drove in a run as well.

Sparta sliced a 6-2 deficit to 6-5 and had the potential tying run on base in the top of the seventh but could not pull off the comeback in the end.

G-E-T 9 Sparta 7

Another rally attempt by Sparta fell short as G-E-T held on to win a game called after five innings to finish the doubleheader sweep.

After Post 100 scored a run in the top of the first, G-E-T answered in the bottom half of the inning with a five-run outburst that included Adain Busch’s RBI single and Thell smacking a double with the bases loaded that brought home three.

Sparta used a six-run rally in the top the fourth to even the score at 7-7, only for Post 352 to score the two decisive runs in the same inning.

Thell went 2 for 3 in the win, including that bases-clearing double.

G-E-T 14 Holmen 4

Nathan Holthaus helped lead the charge for G-E-T in a decisive win over Holmen in five innings last Wednesday in Galesville.

Holthaus went 3 for 3 on the game with a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored. Additionally, Ben Hansen was 2 for 4 with a triple, an RBI and two runs, Oliver Marley finished 2 for 2 with two RBIs and two runs and De Jager went 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.

G-E-T 10 Holmen 3

Post 354 pulled away late to finish off a doubleheader sweep of five-run games.

Holmen led 3-2 through two innings, only for G-E-T to jump ahead on Caiden Brady’s three-run double in the bottom of the third. They added a five-run rally in the fourth that featured a Thell RBI single and a Hansen two-run double.

G-E-T 10 LC Post 52 4

Despite falling into an immediate 3-0 hole, G-E-T’s steady stream of runs allowed them to knock off La Crosse Post 52 this past Sunday in Galesville.

Post 354 answered Post 52’s three-run rally in the top of the first with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, including an Adain Busch RBI single. That was followed with three more runs in the second inning and a final three-run spurt in the fourth that featured a Thell two-run double and a Marley RBI single.

Brady earned the win by tossing six innings in which he gave up four unearned runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out eight.