North Crawford travels to Ithaca for baseball matchup

ITHACA, Wis (WRCO / WRCE) – Ithaca won 10-7 over visiting North Crawford on the final night of the Ridge and Valley baseball season. The Bulldogs started strong with 7 runs total in the first two innings. The Trojans bounced back with a 4 run third inning. The score stayed at 7-4 until a 3 run outburst in the 6th inning for Ithaca. North Crawford countered with 3 runs in the top of the 7th, but it was not enough. The Bulldogs held on to improve to 11-3 in the league, and 15-5 overall. The Trojans fell to 7-7 in the league which was a great improvement from last year when they did not win a league contest. They are 9-8 for the season.

Caden Keller pitched the first 3 innings for Ithaca while Sammy Clary worked the last 4 innings from the mound. Andrew Munson pitched the first 2 innings for North Crawford and Landon Blaha finished up.

The leading hitters in the game for Ithaca were, Hewston Boland who hit a 2 run home run and finished 3 for 4 , Sammy Clary was also 3 for 4 with a double, Cody Byrnes, Channing Brown, and Keegan Jones were all 2 for 4, Wes Nelson scored 2 runs, and Mac Neefe hit a two run home run. North Crawford was led at the plate by Cullen Jacobus and Andrew Munson who were both 2 for 3, and Landon Blaha who hit a 3 run home and he was 2 for 4.

Following the 10-7 win, Ithaca will prepare for the WIAA seeding meeting on Wednesday and a non-conference game with Barneveld is scheduled for Friday.

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