Tasa Grignon’s RBI single in the sixth inning broke a 2-2 tie as the Shawano American Legion baseball team earned a key 3-2 win over Fox River Valley West Division foe Kaukauna on Monday at Memorial Park.
After falling behind 2-0 in the third, Kaukauna (8-5, 5-3 FRV-West) got a pair of runs on a sacrifice fly and a base hit in the top of the sixth. But Shawano (7-4, 5-3 FRV-West) had an answer in the bottom of the frame.
Shawano’s Alex Frechette got on base after taking a pitch to the helmet, stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Clint Dallas then drew a walk to set up Grignon, who drove the ball between Kaukauna’s first and second basemen to bring in Frechette.
“Tasa Grignon had a big hit to take the lead,” Shawano coach Will Gillis said. “I’m really happy with the way the guys played.”
Shawano opened the scoring in the bottom of the third after Kaukauna pitcher Alex Meyerhofer walked the first two batters. Ky Schmidt then hit an RBI single, and Chase Henning hit a sacrifice fly to bring in another run.
Grignon and Schmidt each had a pair of hits.
“We had good at-bats all night, and that was really the key,” Gillis said. “No one really swung at pitches out out of the zone, which is important.”
Shawano pitcher Grant Wainio allowed two runs on five hits, walked one and struck out three in seven innings of work.
“Wainio, obviously, pitched a great game,” Willis said. “I went out there a couple of times to talk to him, and he told me to go back to the dugout because he had it covered.”
Meyerhofer struck out five, walked four and allowed three runs on four hits in six innings.
“Their pitcher really pitched pretty well,” Gillis said. “He pitched well against us last time as well. We had some really good swings on him early in the game.
“I really thought we were going to score a lot of runs tonight. It didn’t turn out that way. We hit some balls right to guys, and that’s the way it goes sometimes.”
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