Two comeback bids fall short for Arcadia baseball

Arcadia continues to seek its first Coulee Conference victory in baseball after a pair of losses last week.

The Raiders dropped a nonconference effort to Eleva-Strum last Thursday by a 5-2 score and followed the loss with a near comeback on Friday against conference opponent Black River Falls. 

Arcadia, 2-5 overall and 0-3 in the Coulee, has three chances to climb the conference standings this week. The schedule started on Monday at G-E-T, continued on Tuesday at home against Luther and ends with a trip to West Salem on Thursday.

Eleva-Strum 5 Arcadia 2

The Cardinals scored five runs on five hits to win last Thursday’s game in Strum.

Arcadia rallied in the sixth inning, scoring twice on a Ryan Gardow double to slash the score to a 3-2 lead for the hosts.

The Cardinals (4-3, 3-0 Dairyland Conference) silenced the pushback with a two-run home run in the bottom half of the inning.

Gardow had two of Arcadia’s three hits on Thursday. Eleva-Strum saw three different players contribute with doubles. 

Prestin Scow pitched five innings for the Raiders. The senior delivered eight strikeouts and walked one batter before being relieved by Caleb Pronschinske in the final inning. 

BRF 3 Arcadia 2

Down 2-0 through five innings at home on Friday, Arcadia needed to find offense quickly in their lone conference game of the week. 

Arcadia responded in the form of back-to-back doubles from Login Scow and Max Blascko, tying the game before the Tigers (4-1, 2-1 Coulee) took the lead back in the top of the seventh.

Four different players earned hits for Arcadia while the other dugout combined for seven hits. 

Max Sobotta started for the hosts and compiled a stat line that included four strikeouts, two walks and one earned run allowed.