Red Hawks roll to three game winning streak
Just a couple weeks into April, the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau softball team already stands as the only remaining team unbeaten in Coulee play.
The Red Hawks (5-1, 3-0 Coulee) improved to 3-0 in conference play and hold sole possession of first place in the standings after breezing past Onalaska Luther. That win was part of a run of three in a row over the past week, which also included victories against Mauston and Cochrane-Fountain City in non-conference action.
G-E-T has a slew of road games on deck against Viroqua/Youth Initiative on Thursday at 5 p.m., Westby on Monday at 5 p.m. and Tomah on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
G-E-T 16 Mauston 0
The Red Hawks needed just three innings to brush aside the Golden Eagles (0-5) last Tuesday in Galesville.
G-E-T unloaded for 13 runs in the bottom of the first with a rally that featured RBI doubles by Alexis Ouellette and Amara Brantner along with RBI singles courtesy of Halene De Jager, Ouellette and Brantner.
The Red Hawks continued the onslaught with three more runs in the second inning thanks to Kennedy Scow’s RBI double and back-to-back RBI singles by Lorissa Thompson and Brantner.
Brantner finished 3 for 3 with four RBIs and a run and Ouellette was 2 for 3 with two RBIs and a run. Samantha Stanton tossed three perfect innings, striking out six along the way.
G-E-T 13 Luther 1
Two big rallies were enough to power G-E-T to a five-inning win over the Luther Knights (3-4, 0-3) in conference play last Thursday in Galesville.
After a run in the first inning, the Red Hawks tacked on five runs in the bottom of the second headlined by Kinley Andersen’s two-run single. That was followed by a seven-run third-inning rally featuring RBI singles by Thompson, Andersen and Ellie Cox and Ouellette’s two-run double.
Ouellette finished 2 for 2 with two doubles, a walk, two RBIs and two runs, while Andersen and Cox each had two hits as well. De Jager allowed one unearned run on two hits with four strikeouts in five innings.
G-E-T 11 C-FC 4
An early 6-0 lead set the tone for the Red Hawks’ win over the Pirates this past Friday in Galesville.
After scoring two runs in the first inning, G-E-T kept the pressure on by adding four more in the bottom of the second via two-run singles by both Andersen and Caroline Mack.
Though C-FC scored four runs between the third and sixth innings, the Red Hawks kept them at arm’s length by scoring five runs over that same stretch — headlined by Ouellette’s two-run home run to center in the fourth inning.
Mack went 4 for 4 at the plate with two RBIs and two runs scored. Ouellette and Andersen added two hits apiece. Stanton earned the win in the circle by going seven innings in which she gave up four unearned runs on five hits and fanned nine.
