Arcadia opens legion play with loss to Onalaska

Summer baseball is underway for the Arcadia Legion Post 17 squad.

Post 17 hosted Onalaska last Thursday for its summer opener, a game that ended with a 7-6 loss.

Arcadia has three games this week, which began on Monday in Black River Falls and continued with a doubleheader in West Salem on Wednesday.

Onalaska 7 Arcadia 6

Arcadia was in a favorable position after four innings on Thursday, leading 5-3 against Onalaska.

The home team flipped the game around with a four-run fifth inning, a burst that sealed a 7-6 victory.

Post 17 matched Onalaska on offense as both teams finished with six hits, but two defensive errors in a row scored the game-tying and game-winning runs for the home team in the fifth inning.

Ryan Gardow hit 2-for-4 for Post 17, and four other players recorded hits. Login and Prestin Scow shared the pitchers’ mound and combined to allow two earned runs.

Login threw four innings, surrendering three hits and three scores to go with two strikeouts and six walks. Prestin finished the game, tossing three strikeouts and a walk while allowing three hits and four runs in three innings of work.