WITTENBERG-BIRNAMWOOD BASEBALL DOUBLES UP SPENCER
Zaleski Sports
SPENCER – Wittenberg-Birnamwood blew open a tight game with a seven-run seventh inning and defeated Spencer 16-8 in a nonconference baseball game Friday at Spencer High School.
Wittenberg-Birnamwood (7-1) led 9-7 after six innings before the big seventh frame all but finished off the Rockets (1-6).
Kaiden Miller went 4-for-4, Madden Prybylski and Reed Knecht each had three hits, and Connor Bacon added three RBI for Spencer.
The Chargers had 21 hits in all, with Max Fraaza hitting a home run and driving in three runs, and Nathan Waupekenay finishing with four RBI.
Spencer hosts Abbotsford/Colby for a nonconference game at 5 p.m. Monday.
Chargers 16, Rockets 8
Wittenberg-Birnamwood 020 403 7 - 16 21 0
Spencer 104 002 1 - 8 14 2
WP: Nathan Waupekenay. LP: Andrew Sieracki.
SO: Chase Krull (2 2/3 inn.) 1, Waupekenay (4 1/3 inn.) 8; Sieracki (5 1/3 inn.) 4, Luke Roehrborn (1 1/3 inn.) 2, Reed Knecht (1/3 inn.) 0. BB: Krull 6, Waupekenay 1; Sieracki 4, Roehrborn 4, Knecht 0.
Top hitters: WB, Pierson Potrykus 3x6, 2 runs, RBI; Quinton Sippl 2x3, 2 runs; Mason Meverden 3x4, 2B, 2 runs, RBI; Waupekenay 2x5, 2B, 4 RBI; Carter Herb 3x5, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Brendan Wincentensen 3x4, 3B, RBI; Max Fraaza 3x3, HR, 2 runs, 3 RBI. S, Madden Prybylski 3x4; Knecht 3x4, RBI; Kaiden Miller 4x4, 2 runs, RBI; Sieracki 2 runs; Connor Bacon 2B, 3 RBI.
Records: Wittenberg-Birnamwood 7-1; Spencer 1-6.