NEW GLARUS - Jared Carney gave a maximum effort and the Glarner Knights walked away with a 10-1 win over Cambridge Tuesday.
Carney threw 68 pitches in six innings of work, allowing just five hits, no walks and one run while striking out nine. At the plate, Carney was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs and two RBIs.
Cambridge scored the first run of the game in the second, but a 3-run fourth gave the Knights the lead. One inning later, New Glarus dropped seven runs on the Blue Jays to pull away.
Noah Zimmerman was 2-for-2 with two runs, a walk, a double and an RBI for New Glarus and teammate Andrew Nimtz finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Zimmerman came on in relief in the seventh and allowed a hit while striking out a batter to close out the game. Zimmerman threw 10 of 11 pitches for strikes.
The Knights also had nine steals in the game.
Pecatonica 6, Barneveld 5
BLANCHARDVILLE - Pecatonica junior Lane Busser had a go-ahead RBI double and sophomore Zander Brunker followed with what proved to be a game-winning RBI single in the fifth inning to help the Vikings beat Barneveld 6-5 Tuesday.
Brunker went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Busser was 2-for-3 with one RBI to propel the Vikings. With the win, Pecatonica (12-4, 9-1 Six Rivers East) has a three-game lead on Argyle in the conference and with one more conference win can assure themselves of at least a share of the league title.
Pecatonica junior Carter Ruegsegger started and pitched 3 2/3 innings and gave up four runs (two earned) on seven hits, while striking out five and not issuing a walk. Senior teammate Evan Prust pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief to get the win. Prust gave up just one run on two hits, struck out six and walked three.
He pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth by striking out two. In the sixth with the game-tying run on second base and two outs, he posted a key strikeout. Then again in the seventh with the game-tying run on second base, Prust came up with a key strikeout to get out of a jam.
"He made big pitches in crucial situations three innings in a row," Pecatonica coach Jim Strommen said. "When he needed to get back ahead in the count he did it. It was really a gutsy performance."
Carney threw 68 pitches in six innings of work, allowing just five hits, no walks and one run while striking out nine. At the plate, Carney was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs and two RBIs.
Cambridge scored the first run of the game in the second, but a 3-run fourth gave the Knights the lead. One inning later, New Glarus dropped seven runs on the Blue Jays to pull away.
Noah Zimmerman was 2-for-2 with two runs, a walk, a double and an RBI for New Glarus and teammate Andrew Nimtz finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Zimmerman came on in relief in the seventh and allowed a hit while striking out a batter to close out the game. Zimmerman threw 10 of 11 pitches for strikes.
The Knights also had nine steals in the game.
Pecatonica 6, Barneveld 5
BLANCHARDVILLE - Pecatonica junior Lane Busser had a go-ahead RBI double and sophomore Zander Brunker followed with what proved to be a game-winning RBI single in the fifth inning to help the Vikings beat Barneveld 6-5 Tuesday.
Brunker went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Busser was 2-for-3 with one RBI to propel the Vikings. With the win, Pecatonica (12-4, 9-1 Six Rivers East) has a three-game lead on Argyle in the conference and with one more conference win can assure themselves of at least a share of the league title.
Pecatonica junior Carter Ruegsegger started and pitched 3 2/3 innings and gave up four runs (two earned) on seven hits, while striking out five and not issuing a walk. Senior teammate Evan Prust pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief to get the win. Prust gave up just one run on two hits, struck out six and walked three.
He pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth by striking out two. In the sixth with the game-tying run on second base and two outs, he posted a key strikeout. Then again in the seventh with the game-tying run on second base, Prust came up with a key strikeout to get out of a jam.
"He made big pitches in crucial situations three innings in a row," Pecatonica coach Jim Strommen said. "When he needed to get back ahead in the count he did it. It was really a gutsy performance."
