Indees finish regular season with split

The Independence/Gilmanton baseball team finished Dairyland Conference play with a win before falling in a nonconference game last week.

The Indees scored four early runs and held on for a 5-3 win over Eleva-Strum last week Tuesday. On Thursday, they fell to Greenwood 8-7 — no further information was reported to the Times.

I/G closed the regular season with a 16-4 record and 14-3 in Dairyland Conference play finishing second behind Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran, which had a 16-2 DC mark.

Tournament play opened for the (1) Indees on Tuesday of this week when they hosted (4) Blair-Taylor. The winner of that game will play the winner between (3) Pepin/Alma and (2) Cochrane-Fountain City. Sectional competition is scheduled for this coming Tuesday in Shell Lake.

I/G 5 Eleva-Strum 3

Two runs with two outs put the Indees ahead early.

Chris Killian doubled with two outs and scored on a single by Wyatt Kuerschner. Kuerschner moved into scoring position on an error and scored on a single by Jackson Konter.

The Indees added two more runs with two outs in the second as Gael Leon singled with two outs and scored on a triple by Hunter Guenther. Guenther then scored on an error.

The Indees added another run when Tyler Brantner walked with one out and scored on a single by Guenther.

Guenther, Killian and Konter all had two hits for the Indees.

Killian was the winning pitcher.