It took the Lakeshore Chinooks extra innings to do it, but they knocked off the Wisconsin Woodchucks, 2-1, Tuesday night at Kapco Park, ending the Woodchucks\u2019 season.<\/p>\n
The game provided many tense moments throughout, and the Woodchucks fought until the very last pitch.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Chinooks\u2019 catcher Zach Bowers\u2019 bloop walk-off single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth inning was the game-winner, sending the Chinooks to the Summer Collegiate World Series, where there will face either Mankato or Willmar.<\/p>\n
It was a pitcher\u2019s duel throughout, as no team cracked the scoreboard until Chinooks\u2019 left fielder Connor McKay drove home a run with an infield single in the fourth inning, giving Lakeshore a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Woodchucks answered when second baseman Blair Beck roped a two-out RBI single of his own in the seventh inning, knotting the score, 1-1.<\/p>\n
For the Woodchucks, lefties Tim MCElroy and Austin Tribby both worked around jams in the eighth and ninth innings, but when the elder Beck was forced into the game to pitch in the bottom of the tenth inning, the Chinooks loaded the bases with two outs, setting up Bowers\u2019 heroics.<\/p>\n
It was an excellent season for the Woodchucks, as they finished the regular season twelve games over .500 at 42-30 before dropping the South Division Championship series to Lakeshore.<\/p>\n
The season saw Chucks\u2019 infielder Jake Jefferies put his name atop the all-time batting average list in Woodchucks history (.343), third baseman Paul DeJong set the Chucks\u2019 single-season records for both homeruns (20) and RBIs (61), and first baseman Brendon Hayden set the single-season record for hits in a season (89), at-bats in a season (281), and games played in a season (70).\u00a0 Hayden also set career Woodchucks\u2019 records for RBIs (99), hits (163), and doubles (36).<\/p>\n
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The Wisconsin Woodchucks are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwood\u2019s League. Playing its 21st season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwood\u2019s League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 115 Northwood\u2019s League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (DET) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Allen Craig (STL) and Ben Zobrist (TB). All league games are viewable live via the Northwood\u2019s League YouTube channel<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information, visit woodchucks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It took the Lakeshore Chinooks extra innings to do it, but they knocked off the Wisconsin Woodchucks, 2-1, Tuesday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n