Norse split with Indees, Thunder
Whitehall’s Taylor Johnson slide home as Catherine Kampa of Independence/Gilmanton fielded a throw home during their game last week Monday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall softball team picked up its first win of the season over one county rival before losing to another later in the week.
The Norse took an early lead and held on for a 9-4 win over Independence/Gilmanton last week Monday. On Thursday, the team battled Osseo-Fairchild, but the Thunder struck with three runs in the top of the eighth inning for the win.
Whitehall (1-5) hosted Pepin/Alma on Tuesday of this week and are slated to welcome Neillsville/Granton on Friday. This coming Monday, the team is set to play at Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran before Thursday’s rematch with I/G.
Whitehall 9 I/G 4
The Norse took an early lead and held on for the win.
Whitehall scored three runs in the top of the first as Taylor Johnson tripled with two runners on and later stole home to put the Norse ahead 3-0.
Karli Molis scored on a wild pitch in the second to put Whitehall ahead 4-0.
Johnson brought two runs home with a double in the fourth before Kelsie Klomsten singled in another, making the score 7-1.
Catherine Kampa doubled in one run for I/G in the fourth and scored on a groundout to bring the Indees within four. However, Whitehall responded with two runs in the top of the fifth.
The Indees scored one in the bottom of the seventh, but that’s as close as they’d get.
Johnson had three of Whitehall’s six hits and four RBIs in the game.
Addison Poeschel got the win, striking out four while allowing seven hits and three walks.
Kate Kampa took the loss for I/G, pitching the first 4.1 innings with 12 walks and four hits while striking out six. Hannah Ekern finished the game, striking out seven while allowing two hits and one walk.
Ekern also had two hits for the Indees.
O-F 10 Whitehall 7
The Thunder scored three in the top of the eighth to get the win.
The Norse got RBI singles from Harlow Foss and Johnson in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game at seven. That’s where the score stood until the eighth when a single was followed by an error to put the Thunder ahead. Another singled plated two runs as O-F took a 10-7 lead.The Norse went down in order in the bottom of the eighth.
The Thunder had the advantage for most of the game after scoring the first three runs and then scoring three more in the third to take a 6-1 lead. Whitehall chipped away with one run in the second, third and fourth innings before plating two in the fifth and sixth.
Whitehall had 12 hits in the game as Foss, Regan Clatt, Johnson, Carson Coburn and Poeschel all had two. Coburn led the team with three RBIs.
Poeschel got the start and pitched the first 3.2 innings, striking out five while allowing eight hits and three walks. Klomsten finished the game, striking out one while allowing four this and four walks in 4.1 innings.
