WILTON — In a highly anticipated matchup between the top two teams in each River Valley Conference division ended with a lopsided 11-0 win for the top-ranked team in Class 2A. The Wilton Beaver baseball team collected their 10th shutout victory of the season in an 11-0 drubbing of Class 2A No. 8 Cascade at home on Thursday, June 20. The win set the Beavers record at 14-1 on the season. The loss by Cascade was their second straight loss to an RVC South squad. Tipton beat the Cougars on June 13 at home. Cascade still has to play RVC South games against Iowa City Regina and Durant. Wilton improved to
University of Iowa signee Jared Townsend had his best outing of the season. Townsend collected a no-hitter in the game and struck out 11 Cougars. He needed only 84 pitches in the game. He did walk four batters. Townsend shut down the Cougars offense, one that bats .297 with five batters batting over .300. Seven of the first outs in the game were Townsend strikeouts. In all, only four outs in the game were not strikeouts.
Wilton took control of the game in the bottom of the first inning. The Beavers batted around and sent ten batters to the plate. Cory Anderson singled and went to third on a Chantz Stevens double. Collin McCrabb walked to load the bases with no outs. Jared Townsend doubled scoring Anderson and Stevens for a 2-0 lead. Cascade got Brock Hartley on strikes and Ashton Stoelk to fly out for two quick outs. Then Brayton Wade smacked a double into right centerfield, scoring both McCrabb and Townsend to give Wilton a 4-0 lead.
The Beavers added four more runs in the bottom of the third inning. Wilton sent nine batters to the plate in the inning. Wilton loaded the bases with one-out after a Stoelk single and walks issued to Clayton Cooling and Garrett Bohnsack. Lead-off batter Cory Anderson then hit a bases-clearing triple to give Wilton a 7-0 lead. Anderson would score one batter later on a sacrifice fly by Chantz Stevens.
The Beavers lead held until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Beavers scored three runs to take an 11-0 lead. There, senior Collin McCrabb launched a three-run home run, his sixth of the season, to end the game by the 10-run mercy rule. Cooling led off the inning with a single and later Stevens singled to put two runners on base to set up McCrabb’s blast.
Cascade starter Reid Rausch took the loss. He fell to 4-2 in 30 1/3 innings of work. Wilton collected 11 hits off the starter who allows opposing batters a batting average of only .133 this season. Rausch took the loss after starting and going four innings. He gave up eight earned runs on seven hits. He walked five and struck out two batters. Tom Knepper pitched the final 2/3 innings in relief. He gave up three runs on three hits and struck out one batter.
Cascade did have four baserunners in the game. Harris Hoffman, Ted Weber, Kaleb Topping, and Tanner Simon all reached base via walks issued.
Wilton had 11 hits in the game with four players collecting multi-hit games. Cory Anderson, Chantz Stevens, Ashton Stoelk and Jared Townsend all had two hits. Clayton Cooling, Collin McCrabb and Brayton Wade each had hits. Anderson and McCrabb each drove in three runs and Townsend had two RBI’s. Stevens, Stoelk, and Wade all had one RBI. Wilton had three doubles in the game, one each from Stevens, Townsend, and Wade. Anderson had a triple in the game.
Beavers Collect A Pair Of Shutouts Over 4A Muscatine
WILTON — The two schools are a mere 15 miles apart, but the distance between programs is wider. The shutout wins were number-9 and number-10 on the season for the Beavers. Beaver seniors Ashton Stoelk and A.J. Bosten each pitched complete-game shutouts and kept their record spotless this season. The Beavers improved to 3-1 in four non-conference games.
In game one, Wilton broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth, scoring two runs. Collin McCrabb hit a one-out double and scored on a Jared Townsend single. Townsend would come around to score on a wild pitch for the second run. That score held until the bottom of the sixth when McCrabb connected for a solo home run.
Ashton Stoelk improved to 3-0 on the season and continued to sport a 0.00 ERA in getting the pitching win. Stoelk needed only 89 pitches to get the complete game win. He struck out seven, scattered three hits and did not walk a batter.
Wilton had five hits in the ball game with Collin McCrabb leading the way, going 2-for-3 with a home run, RBI and two runs scored. Garrett Bohnsack, Stoelk, and Jared Townsend had the other Wilton hits. Townsend also drove in a run.
In game two, A.J. Bosten improved to 2-0 with a seven-inning complete game shutout. He struck out seven, walked two and gave up only four hits. Wilton had 13 hits in the game with four players having multi-hit games. Ashton Stoelk was 3-for-4 with an RBI and run while Clayton Cooling, Brock Hartley and Collin McCrabb each had two hits. McCrabb had another home run and drove in two runs. Cooling and Hartley also had RBI’s. Jared Townsend, Cory Anderson and Garrett Bohnsack each had RBI hits.
Collin McCrabb’s second solo home run on the night gave Wilton a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Wilton would later score its second run when Garrett Bohnsack scored on a wild pitch. Wilton added a Clayton Cooling RBI single in the bottom of the fourth inning for a 3-0 lead. Wilton took control of the game in the bottom of the sixth, pushing six runs across the plate and sending 10 batters to the plate. Bohnsack had an RBI triple and Brock Hartley and McCrabb had RBI doubles in the inning. Cooling, Ashton Stoelk had RBI singles and Anderson and Townsend added RBI’s in the inning to give Wilton the 9-0 lead.
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