The Britton-Hecla Lumberjacks varsity baseball squad split a season-opening doubleheader with Groton last week Monday and the junior varsity/junior high team split three twin bills with Webster last week Monday, Groton last week Tuesday, and Milbank on Monday.
Jacks Varsity 5-12
Groton 7-10
The varsity dropped the opener to Groton 7-5 but came back to take the nightcap 12-10.
Groton led 3-0 after three innings of the first contest. The Jacks cut the margin to 5-4 with two tallies in the top of the sixth but Groton countered with two in the bottom of the inning and held on for the win. Ben Suther doubled and singled to lead the Jacks at the plate. Colton Chapin added a double, Lincoln Kilker laced a single and had three RBI’s, and Mitchell Burger and Jack Teveldal each singled. Chaz Vietor was tagged with the pitching loss.
In game two the local nine led 12-1 in the top of the third and weathered a nine-run Groton rally for the win. Suther doubled and singled and knocked in three runs, Burger laced a pair of safeties, Will Richter singled and collected three RBI’s, and Teveldal singled. Kilker was the winning pitcher.
Jacks JV 3-8
Webster 5-3
Webster broke a 1-1 tie with four runs in the third inning and held on for the opening win, while Britton used a five-run first frame to take control in the nightcap.
Britton out-hit Webster in the opener 4-3 behind singles from Henry Kilker, Luke Bosse, Blayden Downs, and Jackson Medhaug. Liam Peters took the pitching loss in relief of Max Suther.
Isaac Richter and Levi Mills teamed up to pitch a no-hitter in the nightcap with Richter fanning eight and Mills three. Britton managed just two hits, singles by Suther and Kilker, but the local nine took advantage of 11 walks.
Jacks JV 4-3
Groton 1-14
Britton scored two runs in both the first and fourth innings to hold off Groton in the opener, and Groton bounced back by scoring in each inning of the nightcap in a four-inning victory.
Max Suther rapped three singles, Blayden Downs singled twice, and Levi Mills, Corbin Dawson, Liam Peters, and Jacob Folkman added base hits for Britton in the opening win. Drew Heitmann went five innings on the mound, fanning seven, and earning the pitching win. Mills pitched two innings of relief and struck out four.
Britton managed just a single hit in the nightcap, a Folkman single. Kilker took the pitching loss in relief of Downs.
Jacks JV 5-3
Milbank 1-11
Britton scored singles runs in five straight innings to derail Milbank in the opener and Milbank used a nine-run fifth inning to take the nightcap.
Peters had a strong pitching performance in the opener, hurling six innings while allowing just three hits and no walks and striking out eight. Suther led the local nine at the plate with a homer,, single, and two RBI’s. Heitmann doubled and Kilker singled.
In the second game Britton led 3-2 before Milbank’s final inning explosion. Folkman’s single was Britton’s only hit.
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