Arcadia loses three on diamond

After starting the season 2-0, Arcadia High School‘s baseball team found itself on the other end of the final scores in three games last week.

Arcadia lost a pair of Coulee Conference games and dropped a nonconference contest to Fall Creek. 

Arcadia (2-3 overall, 0-2 Coulee) visited G-E-T on Tuesday. The Raiders will play at Eleva-Strum on Thursday and host Black River Falls on Friday. 

Fall Creek 5 Arcadia 0

All five runs scored in last Tuesday’s game came in the fifth inning as the Crickets (3-2, 1-1 Cloverbelt West Conference) hit two doubles and a home run to break a scoring deadlock.

Ben Lightfoot had Arcadia’s lone hit on Tuesday as Fall Creek pitcher Jack Walder delivered nine strikeouts and two walks. Ethan Westgate also pitched two scoreless innings for Fall Creek.

Login Scow got the start for the Raiders and pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and throwing two strikeouts.

Arcadia’s Max Sobotta, Prestin Scow and Caleb Pronschinske also pitched. 

West Salem 3 Arcadia 1

Two conference opponents combined to allow three earned runs last Thursday at Arcadia High School. 

The visitors claimed a 3-0 lead by the end of the fourth inning before a double from Prestin Scow helped Lightfoot score Arcadia’s only run in the bottom of the fifth.

Scow was the Raiders’ best offensive player on Thursday, hitting 2-for-3 and drawing a walk. 

Brendon Ghelfi went 2-for-3 for West Salem and also picked up the save after starting pitcher Ethan Lehman struck out seven Arcadia batters while allowing four hits.

Login Scow threw seven strikeouts himself, walking four Panther batters, allowing five hits and two earned runs.

Westby 4 Arcadia 0

The Norse (2-0, 2-0 Coulee) blanked Arcadia last Friday at home after out-hitting the Raiders six to five.

Two scores in the sixth inning added to a 2-0 lead that Westby established in the second inning. 

Kalan Rudie drove in one of Westby’s early runs on a single and also pitched — Rudie threw five innings, throwing six strikeouts and two walks while giving up four hits. 

Arcadia saw five different players record a hit. Sobotta picked up a loss on the mound despite throwing five strikeouts to only a pair of walks.