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WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Braden Lewis struck out 10 in a complete-game three-hitter to lead Wisconsin Rapids to a 7-2 win over Marshfield in a Wisconsin Valley Conference baseball game Tuesday at Lincoln High School.
Lewis did not walk a batter as the Tigers managed just two third-inning runs.
Rapids took a 3-0 lead in the second before Marshfield (6-4, 3-2 Wisconsin Valley Conference) managed to tighten it up in the third. A fielder’s choice grounder by Bennett Lang plated Cole Halvorsen, who had singled, and Lang later scored on a passed ball, but that would be all the Tigers could manage against Lewis.
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Wisconsin Rapids (13-2, 3-2 Wisconsin Valley Conference) busted the game open with a four-run fifth, chasing Marshfield starter Braxton Kurth, who finished with five strikeouts and one walk in five innings.
The two teams will play again Thursday at Jack Hackman Field in Marshfield beginning at 5 p.m.
Raiders 7, Tigers 2
Marshfield 002 000 0 – 2 3 1
Wisconsin Rapids 030 040 x – 7 11 3
WP: Braden Lewis. LP: Braxton Kurth.
SO: Kurth (5 inn.) 5, Zander Edmundson (1 inn.) 0; Lewis 10. BB: Kurth 1, Edmundson 1; Lewis 0.
Top hitters: M, Chase Robinson 2B; Bennett Lang RBI. WR, Ethan Freeman 2B, RBI; Brennan Huber 2B, 2 RBI; Cannon Plawman 2×3; Jackson Laskowski 3×3, RBI.
Records: Marshfield 6-4, 3-2 Wisconsin Valley Conference; Wisconsin Rapids 13-2, 3-2 Wisconsin Valley Conference.