Rockets take on Greenwood Friday

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

SPENCER — Neillsville rallied with a pair of runs in the top of the seventh inning to top Spencer 4-3 in a Cloverbelt Conference East Division baseball game Tuesday at Spencer High School.

The Rockets led 3-2 after scoring a run in the bottom of the sixth, but Hunter Luepke allowed a pair of hits and two runs in the seventh to take the loss for Spencer.

Luepke had a double and scored; Caden Schillinger had a single, a double, and two RBIs; and Lukas Ellefson also drive in a run for Spencer (5-4, 5-3 Cloverbelt East).

The Rockets return to action Friday at home against Greenwood.

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

Warriors 4, Rockets 3

Neillsville 010 010 2 – 4

Spencer 002 001 0 – 3

Neillsville statistics not reported.

LP: Hunter Luepke.

SO: Caden Schillinger (5 inn.) 2, Dom Wichlacz (1 inn.) 0, Luepke (1 inn.) 0. BB: Schillinger 5, Wichlacz 0, Luepke 0.

Top hitters: S, Luepke 2B, run; Wichlacz 2 BBs, run; Schillinger 1B, 2B, run, 2 RBIs; Lukas Ellefson 1B, RBI.

Records: Neillsville 6-3, 5-1 Cloverbelt Conference East Division; Spencer 5-4, 5-3 Cloverbelt East.