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The Marshfield Post 54 Junior American Legion baseball team split four games in a pair of doubleheaders earlier this week.
On Monday, Marshfield was swept by Stevens Point 5-4 and 11-4, but responded with a twinbill sweep of Merrill 15-0 and 13-8 on Tuesday. Both doubleheaders were held at Jack Hackman Field.
Marshfield is now 4-4 this season heading into Wednesday’s game at Stevens Point. The Junior Blue Devils finish off a busy week with a home doubleheader Thursday against D.C. Everest beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Hackman Field.
Against Point, the Sixers pulled out the win with a run in the top of the eighth inning against Marshfield reliever Nick Urban.
Marshfield rallied to tie the game with a run in the bottom of the seventh but couldn’t get another.
Devyn Palmer had two of Marshfield’s five hits and Ty Pankratz drove in a pair of runs for Marshfield.
In Game 2, Stevens Point scored six runs in the second inning and four more in the fifth to pull past the Blue Devils.
Kyler Bainer and Pankratz each had two hits, and Logan Griesbach knocked in two runs for the Blue Devisl. All three had doubles.
Marshfield’s bats were alive and well against Merrill as the Blue Devils used a seven-run second inning and a six-run third to roll to the Game 1 victory that ended after 4½ innings due to the 10-run rule.
Palmer went 4-for-4 with two doubles, a triple, three runs scored, and two RBIs to lead the hit parade for Marshfield.
Pankratz was 3-for-3 with three RBIs, and Max Heller added two hits and three RBIs in the win.
In Game 2, trailed 8-7 after 4½ innings before pulling away with four runs in the fifth inning and two more in the sixth.
Pankratz was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBIs, and Urban, Palmer, Will Fetting and Ky Swanson all had two hits for the Blue Devils.
Monday’s Games
Game 1
Sixers 5, Blue Devils 4 (8 inn.)
Stevens Point 002 010 11 – 5 5 3
Marshfield 020 001 10 – 4 5 2
Stevens Point roster not provided.
LP: Nick Urban.
SO: Logan Schreiner (7 inn.) 4, Urban (1 inn.) 1. BB: Schreiner 1, Urban 0.
Top hitters: M, Devyn Palmer 2×3, RBI; Ty Pankratz 2 RBIs.
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Game 2
Sixers 11, Blue Devils 4
Stevens Point 060 040 1 – 11 9 0
Marshfield 003 100 0 – 4 7 6
LP: Max Heller.
SO: Heller (1 1/3 inn.) 3, Mason Pavloski (2 2/3 inn.) 2, Will Fetting (2/3 inn.) 1, Logan Griesbach (1 2/3 inn.) 2, Riley Bauman (2/3 inn.) 0. BB: Heller 4, Pavloski 0, Fetting 4, Griesbach 0, Bauman 0.
Top hitters: M, Kyler Bainer 2×4, 2B; Pankratz 2×4, 2B, RBI; Griesbach 2B, 2 RBIs.
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Tuesday’s Games
Game 1
Marshfield 15, Merrill 0
Merrill 000 00 – 0 3 1
Marshfield 176 1x – 15 14 2
Merrill roster not provided.
WP: Ty Pankratz.
SO: Pankratz (3 inn.) 1, Alejandro Anaya (1 1/3 inn.) 2, Logan Griesbach (2/3 inn.) 1. BB: Pankratz 0, Anaya 0, Griesbach 0.
Top hitters: MAR, Devyn Palmer 4×4, 2 2Bs, 3B, 3 runs, 2 RBIs; Nick Urban 2B, 2 runs; Pankratz 3×3, 3B, 2 runs, 3 RBIs; Logan Homolka 2 runs; Max Heller 2×4, 2B, 2 runs, 3 RBIs; Adam Zee 2B, 3 RBIs; Parker Weik 2 RBIs.
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Game 2
Marshfield 13, Merrill 8
Merrill 302 210 0 – 8 11 3
Marshfield 203 242 x – 13 15 2
WP: Riley Bauman.
SO: Homolka (3 inn.) 1, Bauman (3 inn.) 0, Griesbach (1 inn.) 1. BB: Homolka 0, Bauman 2, Griesbach 0.
Top hitters: MAR, Urban 2×4, 2B, 2 RBIs; Palmer 2×4, 2 runs, RBI; Pankratz 3×4, 2 2Bs, 3 runs, 3 RBIs; Griesbach 2 runs, RBI; Will Fetting 2×4, 2B, 2 runs; Logan Schreiner 3B, RBI; Ky Swanson 2×3, RBI.