G-E-T softball ends regular season with two losses

The regular season is officially in the rearview mirror for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School softball team.

The Red Hawks lost a pair of games last week to end the regular season with a 9-10 record. Coach Nate DeJager’s team finished third in the Coulee Conference at 8-4.

Regional playoffs were scheduled to begin on Tuesday with G-E-T, a third seed, facing sixth-seeded Durand-Arkansaw (10-9 this season) in Division Three action. The advancing team will play the winner of Stanley-Boyd and second-seeded Aquinas this Thursday.

BRF 6 G-E-T 3

Halene DeJager and Haley Giemza of G-E-T teamed up to tie last Tuesday’s game, 2-2, in the second inning, and the Red Hawks earned their first lead one at-bat later.

Kinley Andersen singled to score Kyra Donaldson and give G-E-T a 3-2 advantage, but the Tigers closed the scoring with four unanswered runs.

Black River Falls (10-8 overall, 7-5 Coulee) outhit G-E-T 11 to five. The Red Hawks were led by two hits from Andersen.

Samantha Stanton and DeJager pitched, splitting six strikeouts and four walks.

West Salem 4 G-E-T 3

The Panthers (12-4, 11-1 Coulee) slowed down a rally from the host Red Hawks last Thursday.

West Salem grabbed a 4-0 lead before G-E-T scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Caroline Mack hit a double to score DeJager and Giemza, and Melanie Robinson scored in the next at-bat on a fielding error by the Panthers.

West Salem pitcher Josie Brudos answered by striking out two of the three batters she faced in the seventh inning. Brudos got the win by holding G-E-T to three hits and collecting 10 Ks.

Stanton pitched five innings, allowing five hits and one earned run while striking out two batters and walking one. DeJager closed with two innings of work, holding West Salem to two hits and ending with a pair of strikeouts and a walk.