Teams combine for 29 walks

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

OWEN — The Marshfield Columbus Catholic baseball team led 11-0 through three innings but could not hold off a torrid Owen-Withee offense and fell 17-12 in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division game Monday.

The game was originally scheduled to be part of a doubleheader on Friday, but the second game was postponed by rain after Owen-Withee won the opener 8-5.

Columbus Catholic scored six times in the first inning and led 11-0 before the Blackhawks got it going.

Owen-Withee (8-6, 8-5 Cloverbelt East) scored a run in the fourth, nine in the fifth, and seven more in the sixth to pull away.

Kole Karaba and Ben Esterer each had three hits for Owen-Withee.

Six pitchers combined for 29 walks in the game.

Billy Young and Brett Loveland both had a pair of hits for the Dons (6-9, 6-8 Cloverbelt East). Columbus is off until May 23 when its finishes its Cloverbelt East schedule with a doubleheader at Greenwood.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)

Blackhawks 17, Dons 12

Owen-Withee 000 197 0 – 17 11 1

Columbus Catholic 623 000 1 – 12 7 5

WP: Bo Baehr. LP: Matthias Gouin.

SO: Josiah Goerltiz (1 1/3 inn.) 2, Preston Shelton (1 2/3 inn.) 2, Baehr (4 inn.) 2; Bailey Keffer (4 2/3 inn.) 1, Charles Payant (0 inn.) 0, Gouin (2 1/3 inn.) 4. BB: Goerlitz 6, Shelton 2, Baehr 5; Keffer 9, Payant 3, Gouin 4.

Top hitters: OW, A.J. Ovyn 2×4; Kole Karaba 3×6; Ben Esterer 3×6, 2B. CC, Billy Young 2×2; Brett Loveland 2×3.

Records: Owen-Withee 8-6, 8-5 Cloverbelt East; Columbus Catholic 6-9, 6-8 Cloverbelt East.