Red Hawk softball splits two Coulee games, falls to Holmen

The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau high school softball team split a pair of Coulee Conference games last week to move to 3-2 this season.

The Red Hawks earned a tight win over nearby Arcadia on Thursday after falling to Viroqua in another close contest last Tuesday. Holmen also beat G-E-T last Monday.

This week will see G-E-T play four games in five days as the Red Hawks host Sparta on Monday, Westby on Tuesday and Black River Falls on Thursday. The team will end the week at Tomah on Friday.

Holmen 10 G-E-T 0 

Eight errors hindered G-E-T against Holmen last Monday.

The Vikings took a 2-0 lead in the first inning and later added clusters of four runs in both the third and fifth innings to end the game.

The Red Hawks registered four hits in the loss, and Halene De Jager allowed six hits while striking out three.

Viroqua 6 G-E-T 5 

Extra softball, lots of strikeouts and plenty of offense highlighted last Tuesday’s Coulee Conference showdown.

Senior Shayna Kirkey put on a show for the Red Hawks despite the loss to the Blackhawks (3-3, 2-2 Coulee), tossing 13 strikeouts and allowing three earned runs.

Extra innings were required to decide a winner on Tuesday after G-E-T tied the game in the bottom of the seventh inning. The teams traded two runs in the eighth inning before Viroqua won the game with one more score in the ninth inning.

Kirkey led G-E-T with a pair of hits, and four different Red Hawks hit a double.

G-E-T 6 Arcadia 5

The Red Hawks improved to 2-1 in Coulee Conference play this spring with Thursday’s win over the Raiders.

The host Raiders (1-5, 1-4 Coulee) took a 2-1 lead in the first inning, but G-E-T found its offensive groove late in the game — the Red Hawks scored five runs in the sixth inning before fending off a final push from the Raiders.

De Jager and Kinley Anderson each had two hits and two RBI for the Red Hawks. Kirkey struck out eight Arcadia batters while allowing seven hits to pick up the win.

Arcadia was paced by a trio of two-hit performances from Brynn Aspen, Kiley Fitzpatrick and Whitney Sonsalla. Kaitlyn Bremer struck out four G-E-T batters while walking four others.

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