A two-out double set the stage for a walk-off victory for the Rice Lake softball team in its 6-5 victory over River Falls in Rice Lake on Friday.
After giving up the tying run in the top of the seventh, the Warriors had their first two batters go down in order as the game looked like it might go to extra innings. That was until Avery Weinstock lined a ball over the left fielder for a two-out double that put the winning run in scoring position. On senior night, senior Ava Gargulak came to the plate. Down to her final strike she grounded the ball into the hole between shortstop and third base. The River Falls shortstop gloved the ball and fired to first, but the throw was off the mark and skipped past the first baseman allowing Weinstock to sprint home for the winning run.
Rice Lake (10-7, 5-5) had a three-hit game from Emily Kalina while Ava Anderson added two hits. Madi Rowe and Kalina each scored two runs with Anderson and Weinstock scoring the other runs. Kalina drove in two runs, while Emily Saffert had a hit and two RBIs.
In the circle Kalina tossed all seven innings, giving up seven hits, two earned runs and a walk, while striking out five.
The Warriors had led 5-3 heading into the top of the seventh. A home run by Jordan Schwantz brought the Wildcats (5-11, 1-9) to within one. A pair of Warrior errors put runners on the corners with two outs. With River Falls stealing second base, the Warriors attempted to make a quick throw to the shortstop and return throw to the catcher to nab the runner trying to score. Instead the throw home got past the catcher and the Wildcats tied the game.
Rice Lake had gotten on the scoreboard in the first inning as Rowe and Kalina hit back-to-back doubles. Kalina later scored on an RBI ground out from Saffert to put the Warriors in front 2-1. Kalina added another run-scoring double in the second, and Saffert got her second RBI with a base hit to center for the 5-2 advantage.
Track and field
At the Stan Barr Relays in New Richmond the Warriors had three relay victories. The boys' team won a pair of shuttle hurdle relays and the girls took the top spot in the 400-meter relay.
In one shuttle hurdle race, Kaden Willger, Ethan Mullikin and Jacob Madsen won in 48.13 seconds, while it was Willger, Madsen and Jacob Jondreau winning the other shuttle hurdle race in 50.26. The Warrior girls 400 relay of Avery Ash, Adaline Sheplee, Sophia Knauff and Madilyn DeLawyer took the top spot in their race in 50.4.
For the individual events, team points are scored by combining the time, distance or heights of a team's entries. The Rice Lake boys scored 49.49 points for sixth and the girls team was eighth with 42 points.
Connor Durand and Jacob Jondreau combined to place second for the pole vault. Durand cleared a personal best 13 feet for third and Jondreau was sixth at a personal best 12 feet. Also in second was the boys 400 throwers relay (48.72 seconds) of Jackson Frank, Madsen, Vincent Weber and Dayton Eck.
The Warriors had the girls high jump trio of Sheplee, Ellie Pacholke and Safia Winfield place third. Sheplee won the high jump at a height of 5-2. In the 1,600 sprint medley relay it was DeLawyer, Adaline Sheplee, Sedona Gay and Eliana Sheplee finishing third in 4:31.63.
In the boys 1,600 the Warriors placed fourth. Carter Kucko took 12th in 4:46.68, while Bailey MacDonald was 13th (4:47.56), Austin Prince 14th (4:47.81) and Piece Hastreiter 23rd (4:56.46). The high jump trio of Will Svendsen, Colten Eggleston and Finn Grenier was also fourth. Svendsen led the Warriors in tying for fifth after clearing 5-8.
The Rice Lake girls took fifth in both the discus and 400 throwers relay. Addison Schmidt set a personal best with a toss of 119-2 for sixth, with Pacholke and Kamryn Klemme also helping the Warriors to fifth in the event. In the throwers relay Pacholke, Jaida Perry, Klemme and Schmidt reached the finish line in 58.27.
In sixth was the 800 relay of Ash, Winfield, Knauff and Eliana Sheplee that finished in 1:50.9, and the 1,600 relay of DeLawyer, Adaline Sheplee, Knauff and Eliana Sheplee had a time of 4:18.11. DeLawyer (7-6) and Sloan Campbell (6-6) combined to place sixth for the pole vault, while also in sixth was the shot put trio of Schmidt, Ellie Strand and Perry. Schmidt placed sixth individually at 34-6.5.
The Warrior boys had its discus trio of Frank, Owen Brunette and Colten Brunette take seventh, and in eighth was the 3,200 relay of Kucko, Prince, Hastraiter and MacDonald.
Baseball
Eau Claire Memorial 18, Rice Lake 8
A pair of big innings hurt the Warriors in their Big Rivers loss Friday in Rice Lake to the Old Abes.
Eau Claire Memorial (9-5, 4-4) scored 10 runs in the third and six more in the fourth. Rice Lake was up 3-0 when the Old Abes had eight hits, including a three-run home run by Sawyer Stein, to go on front 10-3.
In the first the Warriors (4-9, 1-7) had gotten a walk by Kalvin Kelsey and double by Easton Stone to put two runners on. Kelsey scored on a fielder's choice, and three batters later Aaron Hoffman singled to left to bring in two runs.
Two hit batters and a single from Wyatt Kunesh filled the bases for Rice Lake in the third. With two outs Zach Tatro doubled to left to bring in all three runners. That made it 10-6 but the Warriors gave up six more runs to the Old Abes the following inning and the game was later ended after five innings.
Eau Claire Memorial got nine hits and scored five earned runs on Stone who started on the mound for the Warriors. He walked two and struck out four in three innings.
Stone doubled twice, drove in a run and scored once to pace the offense. Tatro drove in three and Hoffman two. Lucas Roux had a hit, one RBI and two runs scored.
Golf
The Warriors were in ninth place out of 23 teams through one day of the two-day Hayward Invitational. Rice Lake scored 341 playing 18 holes at Hayward Golf Club on Friday. Kellen Marsh and Ben Vande Voort each shot 79s. Dylan Husak finished with a 91, Brody Lammers a 92 and Max Tomesh 93.
The second round of the invite is being played Saturday at Big Fish Golf Club in Hayward.
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