The Bonduel American Legion baseball team crushed struggling Marion/Tigerton 12-0 Tuesday in Bonduel.
Bonduel batted around and scored half of its runs in the third inning.
Leadoff hitter Colton Dobratz was 2 for 3 and collected both of his hits in the third.
“He had a good game and hit the ball, and he got the job done,” Bonduel coach Kevin Thiel said.
Dobratz was not surprised by his team’s performance.
“We played them two weeks ago, and we beat them 17-4, so we knew that we would play well against them,” Dobratz said.
Bonduel (5-1, 4-1 Central Wisconsin Legion League) extended its winning streak to five games.
Starter Connor Rosin pitched four innings, allowing three hits and a walk while striking out six. Trevor Pedersen pitched a scoreless fifth, and struck out one.
“Connor only had 51 (pitches) and Trevor had about eight pitches in the fifth inning, and they just pounded the strike zone,” Thiel said.
Bonduel posted its first run in the second inning on a Brent Pieper fielder’s choice to score Bailey Dingeldein.
Travis Wollenberg sparked the third-inning rally with a two-run double. Jordan Richter doubled in Wollenberg. Dingeldein followed with a single, and scored on a Pedersen fielder’s choice. After Brent Pieper knocked in Pedersen, Dobratz had his second hit of the inning, scoring Pieper.
Bonduel sealed the win with five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, before the game was called due to the 10-run rule.
Pedersen started the fifth with a bunt single, and scored on a Jack Thiel single. Brandon Olson then singled in Pieper. Bennett Gunderson ended the game with a three-run single to score Thiel, Olson and Blake Stoss.
Marion/Tigerton (1-6, 1-6 CWLL) entered the game with nine players in uniform.
“Usually we field about nine or 10 guys, but our last days, we actually fielded a couple of 12-year-olds,” coach Gunner Kopitzke said. “We are really strapping for numbers.”
Kopitzke lifted starter Woodrow Nelson in the fourth inning. Nelson allowed five hits, two walks and seven runs in 3 2/3 innings.
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