WILTON — The Wilton Beavers wrapped up their regular season schedule last week with six games in seven days. The Beavers played ve games against River Valley Conference teams and went 1-4. Overall in the six games, Wilton was 1-5 and finishes the regular season 18-19. The Beavers will have a bye in the rst round of the 2A Regionals and will play either Danville or Pekin at home on Wednesday, July 10. The Beavers also were ranked from start to nish this year in Class 2A, nishing No. 11 in the nal 2A poll released this week.
8th Ranked Regals Sweep 7th Ranked Beavers In Iowa City
IOWA CITY — The Iowa City Regina Regals got the best of the Wilton softball team in a Class 2A Top-10 match up. The Regals won game one, 11-0 in ve innings and won game two, 9-5. Regina improved to 16-14 overall and 13-3 in RVC play while Wilton fell to 17-16 overall and 8-8 in RVC games.
Wilton could not solve Regal senior ace Katie Bracken in game one. Bracken retired the rst seven Wilton Batters and allowed only one Wilton baserunner to reach second base. Bracken struck out eight Wilton batters and held the Beavers to two hits in the game. Singles by Emily Coss in the third and Payton Ganzer in the fifth were the only hits for Wilton.
Bracken also had a night at the plate with two hits with a double and RBI. Emma Nibaur added two hits and three RBI’s.
Regina scored three times in the first on an RBI double by Courtney Kessler and a RBI singles by Emma Nibaur, and Jess Hunter for a 3-0 lead. A solo home run by Annie Gahan and a RBI single by Bracken extended the Regals lead to 5-0 after two innings. Regina sent 12 batters to the plate in a six-run fourth inning to take an 11-run lead. A two-run Nibaur single was the big hit in the inning.
In game two, Wilton had to ght from behind after trailing 9-2 after four innings. The Regals scored two runs in the bottom of the second and third innings to lead 4-0 after three innings. Wilton got on the scoreboard with two runs in the top of the fourth to cut the Regal lead in half. Wilton sent seven batters to the plate in the inning. Kortney Drake reached on a lead-o single followed by a Payton Ganzer single. Drake scored on a Charlotte Brown ground out and Ganzer scored on a Madelyn Wade RBI single to set the score at 5-2.
Regina took control of the game with ve runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to extend their lead to 9-2. Regina batted around in the fourth and had an RBI single from Bracken and a two-run triple by Court- ney Kessler. Wilton pushed a runacrosstheplateinthe fifth on a RBI single by Ganzer and scored two more in the top of the seventh to get the score to 9-5, but no closer.
Bracken was the winning pitch- er in the game after ve innings. She gave up three runs on four hits and struck out ve. Emma Nibaur pitched two innings and gave up two runs on three hits. Bracken led Regina at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI’s and a run scored. Charlotte Brown took the loss after six innings. She gave up nine runs on seven hits, struck out one and walked one.
Rebels Hold Beavers Offense Down In RVC Cross- Division Contest
GOOSE LAKE — The Wilton o ense struggled in their RVC cross-division game at Northeast Goose Lake on Wednes- day, July 3. There, the Rebels broke open a tight ball game with eight runs in the bottom of the sixth to pull away for the 11-2 win.
The victory for the Rebels was their third in their last four games and gave the Rebels a 3-4 recordagainstRVCSouthDivi- sion teams. The 11 runs were the second time in a row and third time in the last four games that Northeast had scored 11 or more runs in the game.
Wilton had eight hits in the game with two players with multi-hit games. Kortney Drake was 3-for-3 with a double and run scored and Payton Ganzer was 2-for-3 with a run scored and stolen base to lead Wilton. Ella Ca rey, Taylor Garvin, and Madelyn Wade had the other Wilton hits.
Wilton scored both of their runs in the top of the sixth inning to cut Northeast’s lead to 3-2. The Rebels had 19 hits in the game with ve players collecting multi-hit games. Alexis Ehlers and Makenna McDon- ald each had four hits. Au- drey Morris and Abby Boyer each had two RBI’s. Ehlers led Northeast with three RBI’s.
Alyssa Pessman was the winning pitcher after starting and going ve innings. Ehlers pitched two innings in relief. Charlotte Brown took the loss for Wilton after working six innings and striking out two batters.
Beavers Split With Golden Hawks
KALONA — The Wilton Beaver softball team traveled to Kalona to play Mid-Prairie in their last RVC South doubleheader of the season. There, Wilton split with Mid-Prairie, winning game one 13-8 and losing game two, 7-5. The Beavers scored 20 runs and had 33 combined hits in the two games.
In game one, Wilton pounded out 21 hits in a 13-8 win. Mal- lory Lange was 5-for-6 with a double, 4 RBI’s, and four runs scored. Alexis Walker was 4-for-5 with two RBI’s and three runs scored. Kortney
Drake, Payton Ganzer, Peyton Souhrada, and Emily Coss all had two hits. Souhrada had two RBI’s and Ganzer had one RBI. Other Wilton hits came from Charlotte Brown, Taylor Drayfahl, Taylor Garvin, and McKenzie Pallischeck.
Wilton led 6-3 after two innings and did not trail in the game. Single runs in the third- sixth innings for Wilton set the score at 10-5 after six innings. Each team pushed three runs across the plate in the seventh inning to set the game at its final of 13-8.
In game two, Wilton fell behind 6-2 after ve and trailed the whole game after leading 1-0 in the rst inning. Wilton fell 7-5 to the Golden Hawks in the second game. Wilton trimmed the Golden Hawk lead to 6-5 after scoring three runs in the top of the sixth inning.
Halee Driscoll took the loss after three innings of work. She gave up three runs on four hits and walked three. Charlotte Brown pitched three innings in relief and gave up four runs on three hits and struck out one batter.
Wilton had twelve hits in the game with ve players with multi-hit games. Kortney Drake was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs while Mallory Lange, Payton Ganzer, Alexis Walker, and Emily Coss each had two hits. Ganzer drove in two runs while Lange and Ella Caffrey each had RBI’s. Wilton had four doubles in the game.
Beavers Clipped By CCA Clippers In Regular Season Finale
WILTON — The Wilton softball team fell 1-0 at home on senior night last Friday to end the 2019 regular season. The Beavers fell to 18-19 overall and enter the postseason on a three-game losing streak.
Clear Creek-Amana scored the winning run in the top of the seventh inning, spoiling a gem of a pitching outing by eighth-grader Charlotte Brown. CCA got a lead-o double from Ga- brielle Bedford who then advanced to third on a wild pitch by Brown. Grace Downes then hit into what should have been a routine ground out, but a throwing error to rst base, allowed Bedford to score the game’s only run.
Brown gave up only one-run on ve hits to the larger school out of the WaMac conference. She struck out three and walked no Clipper batters. Wilton had four hits in the game by four di erent players, but only one- hit after the third inning. The Beavers had many groundouts in the contest. Mallory Lange, Kortney Drake, Payton Gan- zer, and Josie Said had the hits. Lange also reached base via a walk in the game.
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