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MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield boys soccer team split a pair of games Saturday at the first annual Marshfield Invitational.
The Tigers beat Reedsburg 3-2 and lost to Sauk Prairie 5-3 during the tournament at Griese Park.
Rhinelander won the tournament by beating Reedsburg 2-1 and Sauk Prairie 4-2.
Marshfield fell behind early but Al Reester tied things up with an unassisted goal at the 12:33 mark and the Tigers and Reedsburg took a 1-1 tie into halftime.
In the second half, Bobby Leggon and Austin Gilbert pushed the Tigers ahead with goals – Leggon’s on an assist from Eli Oba and Gilbert’s on an assist from Spencer Borchardt.
Reedsburg scored with 1:15 to go but couldn’t mount another scoring chance and the Tigers ended a four-game losing streak.
“Spencer Borchardt played very solid center middle for us,” Marshfield coach Ron Todryk said. “He had one assist and was close to an assist on Reester’s shot. Erik Holm played one of his best games in goal I have seen him play this year.”
Holm finished with four saves in the win.
In the second game, the Tigers again fell behind early, allowing a goal just 4:56 in to Sauk Prairie’s Elliot Bederich.
Eli Oba tied it 3 ½ minutes later, but the Tigers started to run out of steam.
Jeremy Hish scored three straight goals for the Eagles, two before halftime and another 4:59 into the second half, to give Sauk Prairie a commanding 4-1 lead.
Alex Kehlnhofer scored for Marshfield at the 47:15 mark, but the Tigers couldn’t get another one past Sauk Prairie goalie Andrew Mang, who had three saves.
“We hung tough, but we ran out of gas in the second half,” Todryk said. “We had some little injuries and were down to two subs. In the last 30 minutes we kind of were out of gas and couldn’t do much.”
Marshfield (5-9-2) returns to Wisconsin Valley Conference action next week with games at Wausau East on Tuesday and at home against Merrill on Thursday. The Tigers’ two WVC wins this season came against East and Merrill earlier this season.
Marshfield 3, Reedsburg 2
Reedsburg 1 1 – 2
Marshfield 1 2 – 3
First half: 1. R, Joshua Dedlock (unassisted), 5:54; 2. M, Al Reester (ua), 12:33.
Second half: 3. M, Bobby Leggon (Eli Oba), 47:25; 4. M, Austin Gilbert (Spencer Borchardt), 65:23; 5. R, Joel Garcia (Mark Hollendyke) 68:45.
Saves: M, Erik Holm 4; R, Tanner Brecka 5.
Sauk Prairie 5, Marshfield 3
Sauk Prairie 3 2 – 5
Marshfield 1 2 – 3
First half: 1. SP, Elliot Bederich (Cody Fuchs), 4:56; 2. M, Eli Oba (ua) 9:35; 3. SP, Jeremy Hish (ua) 16:17; 4. SP, Hish (ua), 25:26.
Second half: 5. SP, Hish (ua), 44:59; 6. M, Alex Kelnhofer (Colin Telin), 47:15; 7. SP, Irvin Estrada (Elliott Dedrich); 8. M, Telin (Kelnhofer), 68:53.
Saves: M, Holm 6; SP, Andrew Mang 3.