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CRANDON – The Spencer baseball team saw its season come to an end as it dropped a 7-1 decision to Crandon in a WIAA Division 3 regional quarterfinal Thursday at Crandon High School.
No. 7 seed Crandon (16-5) scored in each of the first four innings to take a 7-0 lead and finished off the Rockets (6-15), and move on to a D-3 regional semifinal at No. 2 seed Stratford (18-5) on Tuesday.
Reed Knecht hit a solo home run in the sixth inning for the Rockets’ only run.
Trent Palubicki drove in three runs for Crandon.
Cardinals 7, Rockets 1
Spencer 000 001 0 – 1 4 1
Crandon 312 100 x – 7 8 0
WP: Ryan Schunk. LP: Tyler Peterson.
SO: Peterson (3 1/3 inn.) 4, Weston Nieman (2 2/3 inn.) 0; Schunk (6 inn.) 4, Elias Glinski (1 inn.) 0. BB: Peterson 3, Nieman 3; Schunk 1, Glinski 0.
Top hitters: S, Reed Knecht 2×2, HR, RBI. C, Trent Palubicki 2×4, 3 RBI; Kulinski 2×4, RBI.
Records: Spencer 6-15; Crandon 16-5.