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MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield Junior Legion baseball team scored five times in the bottom of the sixth inning to earn a 7-5 comeback win on Thursday at Jack Hackman Field.
Merrill led 5-2 before the Junior Devils rallied with the big sixth inning to snag the win and improve to 4-9 this summer.
Vance Kielman had an RBI single, and Chase Robinson hit a bases-loaded triple to clear the bases and scored on a groundout by Sloan Welch to give Marshfield a 7-5 lead.
Aden Cherney picked up the win for the Junior Devils, throwing three shutout innings in relief of Ian Brown and Mitchell Schade.
Marshfield will compete at the Antigo Tournament this weekend starting with a game against the host team Antigo at 8 p.m. Friday.
Junior Devils 7, Typhoon 5
Antigo 020 300 0 – 5 8 0
Marshfield 100 105 x – 7 8 1
WP: Aden Cherney. LP: Voight.
SO: Voight (5 inn.) 4, Kaminski (1 inn.) 1; Ian Brown (3 inn.) 2, Mitchell Schade (1 inn.) 2, Cherney (3 inn.) 2. BB: Voight 5, Kaminski 1; Brown 3, Schade 5, Cherney 0.
Top hitters: MER, Voight 3×4; Knaitz 2B, RBI; Page 2 runs. MAR, Vance Kielman 2×3, 2 RBI; Chase Robinson 2×4, 3B, 2 runs, 3 RBI; Henry Zaleski 1×2, 2 runs; Sloan Welch 1×3, RBI; Madden Prybylski RBI.
Records: Merrill not reported; Marshfield 4-9.