Post 354 ends legion regular season
Oliver Marley, the first baseman for the G-E-T Post 354 19U legion baseball team, tagged out a West Salem runner during a 3-2 loss to the hosts last Thursday at West Salem High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
A pair of losses last week ended the 2024 regular season for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks Post 354 19U legion baseball team.
Post 354 (7-9 this summer) fell in a game at West Salem High School last Thursday before closing the regular season with another tight effort in Coon Valley on Sunday.
The G-E-T team will be one of six playing in a Class A regional tournament at Bangor High School this week. Post 354 opens play against host Bangor at 5 p.m. Thursday.
If they win game one of the double-elimination tournament, they advance to play at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. A Thursday loss will result in a noon game on Friday.
West Salem 3 G-E-T 2
A last inning showing for Post 354 was offset by a walk-off score for host West Salem last Thursday.
When the hosts took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, Post 354 had a chance to extend the game into extra innings — three consecutive singles scored Calvin Davis and Tucker McDonah to tie the game 2-2 in the top half of the seventh inning.
Koen Molling scored on an outfield single in the bottom of the seventh, ending the late hope for G-E-T.
Oliver Marley hit 3-for-4 with three singles for Post 354, and Myles Marley finished 2-for-4. Caiden Brady hit 2-for-4 also, and Tucker McDonah had the final hit for G-E-T, which outhit West Salem eight to six.
Myles Marley pitched for G-E-T, finishing with seven strikeouts and four walks. Will Schmidt, Brendon Ghelfi and Terry Boland pitched for the hosts, combining for five strikeouts and five walks.
Coon Valley 7 G-E-T 5
The weekend game in Coon Valley again saw the home team take an early lead.
Coon Valley collected eight hits. The hosts scored three times in the first inning and tacked on four additional runs in the fourth.
Post 354 scored the final five runs of the game. Five different G-E-T players finished with a hit.
Oliver Remus scored twice for G-E-T, and McDonah led the visitors with two RBI. Marley, Davis and Ben Filla split time on the mound for Post 354, each finishing with one strikeout.
