Northwoods League
WAUSAU, Wi (WAUSAU WOODCHUCKS-WSAU) –After a 58 minute weather delay, the Lakeshore Chinooks took down the Wausau Woodchucks 6-5 Tuesday night at Athletic Park.
Andrew Armstrong (Florida State University) started the game for the Woodchucks with a strike out and a double play. The Chinooks scored the first run of the game in the second and the Woodchucks responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the third inning when Mark Shallenberger (University of Evansville) drove in Amani Larry (University of New Orleans).
A McGwire Holbrook (West Virginia University) sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth scored Michael Brooks (University of Central Florida) putting the Woodchucks on top 2-1. Lakeshore would put up two in the fifth, but the Woodchucks answered with a run of their own with an RBI single from Zach Levenson (University of Miami), which scored Hunter Dorraugh (San Jose State University), bringing the game to a tie at 3.
The scoring would continue in the sixth when Caleb Bartolero (Troy University) scored on a RBI double from John Bay (Oklahoma State University) for the Chinooks, which gave the Chinooks the lead of 4-3. The Woodchucks quickly reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the sixth with Holbrook and Camden Janik (University of Illinois) scoring off a Kevin Kilpatrick (University of Houston) single to left field.
With the Woodchucks leading at the top of the seventh, the Chinooks strike back immediately with Tony Livermore (Northwestern University) crossing home plate on a wild pitch thrown by Cade Denton (Oral Roberts University) to even the score.
After a scoreless eighth inning, the first since the first inning of the game, the Chinooks’ Matthias Haas (Cal Poly) hit a homerun with one out in the ninth to take the lead.
The Woodchucks host Green Bay tonight.
The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters won their third game in a row as they took down the Kenosha Kingfish 15-3.
Jacob Igawa (University of Hawaii) earned Northwoods League Player of the Night going four for four at the plate with a double and four RBI. Igawa reached base six times and scored three times.
Ben Ross (Notre Dame College) had three hits with two doubles along with Harry Owen (Consumnes River College) who also had three hits with one double. Seth Stroh (Wichita State University) drove in four runs with a grand slam in the eighth inning. Xavier Rivas (University of Indianapolis) threw the first three innings with eight strikeouts.
The Rafters travel to Kokomo tonight.
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