Tigers now 9-5 this season

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

BLOOMER — The Stratford softball team split a pair of games at the Bloomer Invitational on Saturday, beating Baldwin-Woodville 6-3 and losing to Bloomer 9-4.

In the win over Baldwin-Woodville, Stratford scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning to pull out the win after the Blackhawks rallied to tie the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh.

Kiana Weiler struck out eight, and all three runs she allowed were unearned as she picked up the win against Baldwin-Woodville.

Brittany Bredemann, Sammy Griesbach, Sammy Kaiser, and Sam Manecke each had two hits for the Tigers (9-5).

Against Bloomer, Stratford committed four errors leading to five unearned runs.

Weiler was 3-for-4, and Val Licciardi had two hits for Stratford.

The Tigers were scheduled to play at Wisconsin Rapids Assumption on Monday.

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

Tigers 6, Blackhawks 3 (8 inn.)

Stratford 003 000 03 – 6 10 2

Baldwin-Woodville 100 000 20 – 3 5 4

WP: Kiana Weiler. LP: Furrer.

SO: Weiler 8; Furrer 5. BB: Weiler 1; Furrer 1.

Top hitters: S, Brittany Bredemann 2×5, 2B, 2 RBIs; Sammy Griesbach 2×4; Sammy Kaiser 2×4; Sam Manecke 2×3; Val Licciardi 2B. BW, Burr 2 runs; Campbell 2B.

Records: Stratford 9-4; Baldwin-Woodville 13-3.

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Blackhawks 9, Tigers 4

Stratford 002 000 2 – 4 10 4

Bloomer 021 024 x – 9 11 1

WP: Seibel. LP: Weiler.

SO: Weiler 2; Seibel 6. BB: Weiler 0; Seibel 3.

Top hiters: S, Weiler 3×4; Licciardi 2×2. B, C. Zwiefelhofer 2×4, 2 runs; Luzinski 2 RBIs; Seibel 2×4; Score 2×2, 2B, 2 runs; S. Zweifelhofer 2×3, 3B.

Records: Stratford 9-4; Bloomer 10-3.