The Wolves were looking to improve to 6-0 in the conference when they hosted Nevis Friday.
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley held a 4-2 lead after four innings, but a four-run fifth gave Nevis a 6-4 lead.
A double by Brad Hasse scored Levi Meschke, who opened the seventh inning with a single. That put the tying run at third and winning run at second, but Eli Lindow got Cole Rutten to pop-out to the catcher to end the game, moving Nevis to 5-0 in the conference.
Marshall Kalm, who pitched into the fifth, got the win. He gave up eight hits, six walks and struck out six. Lindow pitched the final two-plus, allowing one run on two hits with three strike outs.
Hasse started for WHA and went six innings. He gave up five hits, two walks and struck out nine. All six runs Nevis scored were unearned as WHA committed four errors.
Leading WHA at the plate was Hasse with one double and two singles. Meschke had two hits, Wyatt Hegg, Rutten and Skyler Westphal each had one single. Caleb Crow walked twice, with Rutten, Hegg, Karch Frazier and TJ Orton each having one free base.
Kalm had two of Nevis’ five hits including a three-run homer in the fifth that gave Nevis a 6-4 lead. Christian Moe also had two hits including a lead-off double in the fifth. Devan Lindow had a single, while Eli Klimek and Blake Kowalke both walked.
Nevis scored twice in the first with Lindow scoring on an error and Austin Ahrendt on Kalm’s single.
WHA took a 4-2 lead in the second as Crow and Frazier both walked to lead-off the inning. Meschke’s double scored both runners, and he would score on Westphal’s single, who moved to second on a outfield error. Two batters later Hasse’s single scored Westphal.
In Nevis’ four-run fifth, WHA dropped two fly balls that would have gotten them out of the inning without giving up a run.
The Wolves left 12 men on base compared to only three for Nevis. WHA had two runners in scoring position in the third, fourth, fifth and seventh innings but stranded all of them.
WHA travels to Blackduck and host both Mahnomen-Waubun and Nevis this week. On the schedule next week are home games with Bagley and Laporte.
Wolves rally for win
The Wolves trailed Blackduck 6-0 after three innings, but a four-run fourth gave them new life.
In a game played in Walker May 1 with Blackduck, the home team on the scoreboard, WHA scored once in the fifth on Orton’s RBI walk and blew the game open with a five-run seventh that propelled them to a 10-7 win.
Frazier opened the frame with a double her turned into an inside-the-park home run on an errant throw to second. A walk by Westphal, and singles by Gavin Swanson and Hasse loaded the bases. Rutten and Hegg were both hit by pitches that scored two more runs and Crow followed wit a RBI walk. Rutten scored the final run on a wild pitch.
Rutten, who pitched three scoreless innings to get the win, survived a frantic seventh. After striking out the first two batters, an errant throw put the tying run at second. He got the next batter to ground out to Orton at third to end the game. Rutten gave up one hit, one walk with four strike outs.
Swanson started and went four innings, allowing seven runs on nine hits, one walk with five strike outs.
WHA finished with 11 hits and 11 free bases. Swanson had a double and three singles with one RBI, Hasse had two singles, Hegg two singles and a double and Meschke a two-run double and a walk.
Orton walked three times and Crow had two walks and was hit by a pitch.
Blackduck scored five runs in the second on Will Dierkhising’s two-run single, a RBI single by Max Bahr and a two-run single by Rocky Vigilanti. They added another run in the third as Jake Mistic singled and scored on Max Lundberg’s double.
WHA got four of them back in the fourth as Hegg single, Crow was hit by a pitch and Frazier walked to load the bases. Meschke followed with a two-run double down the third-base line and Orton walked. Two batters later Swanson drove in a run with a single and Orton scored the fourth run on a wild pitch.
After the Drakes added another run in the fourth, WHA got it back in the fifth as Hegg doubled and ended up scoring on Orton’s bases-load walk.
Wolves win in downpour
A soaked field amidst a downpour did not dampen the Wolves enough to stop them from winning 3-0 at home over Mahnomen-Waubun April 30.
Orton improved to 2-1 on the season with more than five innings of work. He gave up only one hit, walked five and fanned nine.
Hasse relieved with one out in the sixth and struck out five of the six batters he faced — including the side in the top of the seventh.
WHA finished with only three hits with Swanson, Hegg and Hasse each having a single.
Swanson opened the bottom of the first with a single and scored on Rutten’s ground-out.
WHA’s final two runs came in the third as Hegg led-off with a single followed by an error on Rutten’s grounder. Hegg scored the first run on a Crow’s grounder to second, with Rutten scoring on Hasse’s single.
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