August 7, 2015 at 1:06 p.m.
Northwoods Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Stars win invite
Northwoods Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Stars win invite
The team consists of five all-stars from Rhinelander and six from Tomahawk, with coaches from both Tomahawk and Rhinelander. The kids have proudly coined the team the "Rhinehawks."
The tournament started with round-robin pool play on Saturday, where the Northwoods team first faced Viroqua. Connor Cooper pitched all four innings in the 14-3 victory. Eric Grulke, Liam Rappley and Aaron Evans turned a 5-4-3 double play to end the game. Cole Feest went 2 for 2 with 4 RBIs, Hunter Jones was 1 for 1, Josh Randolph 2 for 3, and Shawn Dirkx and Jake Ruid both went 1 for 2. Evans and Grulke both scored five runs on walks.
In the final game of pool play, Bryce Schickert pitched in the one-hit shutout 10-0 victory against Tomah. Sam Von Schrader was 2 for 2, Evans was 1 for 1 with 2 walks, Ruid was 1 for 1 with a walk and was hit by pitch, Dirkx was 1 for 2 with an RBI double, and Rappley, Feest and Randolph also went 1 for 2 from the plate.
Earning the No. 1 seed for single elimination on Sunday, the team faced Black River Falls in the semifinal round. The Rhinehawks took an early 8-3 lead, but Black River Falls battled back in the fifth inning, going up 11-10. Northwoods tied it up, 13-13 in the sixth, and scoreless seventh pushed the game into the eighth inning. Northwoods scored five runs in the inning and held on for a 18-15 win.
Randolph, Dirkx, Evans, Cooper and Schickert pitched with the win going to Cooper and Schickert closing out in the bottom of the eighth for the save. At the plate, Feest was 2 for 3 with a double, Randolph also went 2 for 3, Dirkx was 3 for 5 with 4 RBIs and Evans also batted in four runs.
The championship game was played against Menomonie which took an early 2-0 lead in the second inning. The Northwoods team rallied in the fifth after Schickert was hit by a pitch, Rappley advanced Schickert to second base, leading to base hit RBIs from Jones, Grulke and Feest to take a 3-2 lead. Menomonie tied it up at 3-3 in the bottom of the fifth, and the game pushed to extra innings.
In the top of the eighth, with two outs, Evans got a base hit single, followed by a Menomonie error on a ball hit by Randolph. Evans then scored on a base hit RBI from Ruid. In the bottom of the eighth, Menomonie got the tying run on first with no outs, but Feest recorded three strikeouts from there to end the contest. Grulke and Rappley were both 1 for 2 and Evans, Dirkx, Jones and Feest went 1 for 3 in the championship victory to end the 2015 baseball season.
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