Raider baseball beats Luther, falls in doubleheader to Panthers
Max Sobotta of Arcadia looked back a West Salem baserunner during their game last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Last week featured varying levels of success in Coulee Conference play for the Arcadia high school baseball team.
The Raiders opened the week with a statement win over Onalaska Luther last Tuesday before dropping both games of a doubleheader against West Salem—one convincingly and the other by a single run—last Thursday.
Arcadia will hope to get more wins this week as the Raiders (5-3 overall, 3-2 Coulee Conference) play plenty of baseball.
A trip to Osseo-Fairchild awaits the Raiders on Monday followed by another Coulee doubleheader at home against Viroqua on Tuesday. Blair-Taylor will host Arcadia on Wednesday before a visit to Melrose-Mindoro on Thursday closes a stretch of five games in four days.
Arcadia 11 Luther 2
The Raiders stretched a 4-2 lead into a big win on Tuesday at Luther High School.
Arcadia out-hit the Knights eight to five, led by Caleb Glenzinski’s 2-for-4 performance. Prestin Scow and Carson Martin each hit a double and brought in two runs apiece. Connor Weltzien hit a triple for the visitors.
Scow, Cam Boland and Login Scow split pitching duties, striking out five Luther batters while walking five and allowing zero earned runs.
Luther (2-7, 0-5 Coulee) got two hits from Nic Schultz.
West Salem 15 Arcadia 4
The team atop the Coulee Conference standings scored often in their first game of last Thursday’s doubleheader.
The Panthers (10-1, 7-1 Coulee) combined to score nine runs over the final three innings of game one to put away the host Raiders.
Arcadia scored a pair of runs to cut West Salem’s lead to 4-2 in the third inning before West Salem’s big run.
Maverick Drazkowski had three hits for Arcadia, and Weltzien hit a pair of doubles. Prestin and Login Scow shared the mound, allowing 19 hits and 12 earned runs while walking five.
West Salem 12 Arcadia 11
Game two on Thursday was much closer.
Facing a 6-3 deficit, Arcadia flashed some offensive power with six runs in the fifth inning to take back the lead. The teams traded runs the rest of the way before West Salem won on a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning from Luke Baginski.
Offense was no struggle for Arcadia in the second half of the back-to-back, as five different Raiders contributed at least two hits. Carson Martin had the most productive showing at the plate with a 3-for-4 day and a home run.
Weltzien got the start for Arcadia, allowing five hits and four earned runs while striking out five batters and walking the same amount. Boland closed the game, allowing three hits and two earned runs to go with a strikeout and five walks.
