Arcadia gets back in Coulee win column by beating Viroqua
Arcadia shortstop Carter Wegman threw to first for an out during their game against Viroqua last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
After three straight losses in conference play, the Arcadia baseball team got back into the win column with a tight win over Viroqua to close out the month of April.
The Raiders (7-7, 3-4 Coulee) held off the Blackhawks at home to notch their third Coulee victory of the season. Over the weekend, they split a pair of games as part of a tournament hosted by Baldwin-Woodville in Baldwin.
Arcadia is set to play rival G-E-T on the road on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and then is at Osseo-Fairchild in non-conference action Monday at 5 p.m.
Arcadia 4 Viroqua 3
The Raiders got all the scoring they needed in the first two innings to turn aside Viroqua (6-4, 3-2) last Tuesday in Arcadia.
The Blackhawks jumped ahead out of the gates with three runs of the unearned variety in the top of the first, but Arcadia hit right back in the bottom half of the inning thanks to Caleb Pronschinske’s RBI groundout and two more runs scoring on an error.
Deklyn Grzadzielewski’s RBI groundout in the second inning put the Raiders ahead for good. Arcadia’s Login Scow worked through some baserunners reaching in the third, fourth and fifth innings, then set down the last six Viroqua batters in order to secure the victory.
In seven innings of work, Scow struck out eight and allowed the three unearned runs on five hits and one walk.
At the plate for Arcadia, Ben Lightfoot hit a double while Grzadzielewski, Scow and Austin Fernholz each singled.
Arcadia 6 Eleva-Strum 1
A week and a half after beating Eleva-Strum 10-3 at home, the Raiders did it again by besting the Cardinals (4-8) 6-1 last Saturday in Baldwin.
Grzadzielewski and Scow each hit RBI singles in the bottom of the third to take a 2-0 lead, followed by a four-run Arcadia rally in the sixth that featured Pronschinske hitting a bases-clearing double with the bases loaded.
Grzadzielewski and Pronschinske both had two hits apiece. Logan Breska got the win with four shutout innings in which he struck out three.
B-W 8 Arcadia 6
In a back-and-forth affair, it was the host Blackhawks (7-6) who had just enough to take down the Raiders.
A Pronschinske RBI single helped Arcadia grab a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, though Baldwin-Woodville eventually pulled ahead 6-3. That deficit was sliced to 6-5 after Scow’s RBI double in the fourth, only for the Blackhawks to get two runs back in the sixth.
Though Scow scored in the top of the seventh, the hopes of an Arcadia comeback were snuffed out when Max Blaschko was caught stealing for the game’s final out.
Scow went 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored to lead the way for the Raiders at the plate.
