FOND DU LAC USES BIG RALLY IN BACK HALF OF MATCHUP TO DOWN WAUSAU<\/b><\/p>\n
FOND DU LAC, WI- The Wausau Woodchucks lost ground in the Great Lakes West playoff race Tuesday night when the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders came from behind to beat the Woodchucks, 9-4. at Herr-Baker Field.<\/p>\n
Bryce Hubbard (Oregon State) finished 3-4 with an extra base hit and an RBI. Keagen Jirschele (South Dakota State) also turned in a multi-hit game, going 2-4 with a run scored and a walk. On the mound, Logan Waldschmidt (LSU-New Orleans\/UT-Martin) turned in his best performance of the summer, starting the game and going five innings while striking out six, allowing just two runs on four hits.<\/p>\n
THE HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n
Wausau got off to a strong start. In the top of the first inning, Keagen Jirschele reached with a leadoff single, and he would score when Lane Walton (Arkansas State) mashed a two-run home run to right field. Fond du Lac, however, would answer in the bottom half of the first with two runs of their own.<\/p>\n
In the second, Wausau reclaimed the lead when Sawyer Tolk (Kansas City Kansas CC\/Dayton) scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-2. The score stayed that way until the sixth, when the Dock Spiders scored three runs, two of them with two outs, to flip the game in their favor.<\/p>\n
Fond du Lac then added on, with four runs in the seventh inning to stretch their lead out to six runs. Wausau worked hard to finish the game strong, as Bryce Hubbard picked up an RBI double to bring home a consolation run, but the Woodchucks could not force any more runs across the plate in the game.<\/p>\n
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