Wisconsin Rapids Rafters rolls past Wausau Woodchucks

Wausau Pilot & Overview

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – As one profitable streak got here to an finish in drizzly Wisconsin Rapids on Sunday afternoon, one other continued.

The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters (6-1) used a six-run fifth inning to distance themselves from the Wausau Woodchucks (3-4), snapping the Chucks’ three-game profitable streak in a 13-2 determination at Witter Discipline in Northwoods League baseball motion.

The win was Wisconsin Rapids’ sixth straight, inserting them in a tie for first place with the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders.

Woodchucks’ starter DJ Radtke (Georgia) struck out 4 Rafters over his three-inning begin. He took his second lack of the season and allowed 5 runs within the defeat.

The Chucks scored their lone runs within the high of the fourth. Norris McClure (Spring Hill) contributed a base hit and Ryan Blanchard (Feather River) compelled an error on a bunt, organising Dean Bittner (Mesa) to ship an RBI. Tre Hondras (John A. Logan) then drove in one other with an RBI single, extending his on-base streak to seven video games.

The Rafters would rating eight unanswered to run away with the win, utilizing two homers and 12 complete hits.

A number of the harm got here in opposition to Tyler Denu (Evansville), who labored two innings in his crew debut.

Thomas King (Houston Baptist) allowed one run over two-plus innings of reduction, hanging out two. Jace Baumann (UW-Stout) got here in to file an out within the eighth inning as effectively.

The Woodchucks will proceed their four-game sequence in opposition to Wisconsin Rapids on Monday at 6:35 p.m. at Athletic Park in Wausau. Following a time without work Tuesday, Wausau travels again to Wisconsin Rapids for a sport Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. and the sequence will conclude Thursday again at Athletic Park at 6:35 p.m.