HOLMEN — The Holmen High School baseball split two nonconference home games on Saturday, winning the first and losing the second.
The Vikings (8-2-1) beat Stevens Point 8-6 before a seventh-inning rally fell short in a 9-7 loss to Eau Claire Memorial.
Holmen scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 6-6 tie against Stevens Point.
First baseman Noah Oswald hit a two-run single to left field that scored Brennon Metzler and Nolan Mashak with one out with the go-ahead runs. Oswald, who also doubled, was 3 for the 4, and the hit gave him four RBIs.
Right fielder Joe Meeter was 2 for 4, hit a home run and scored twice for Holmen, which came back from allowing three runs in the top of the first inning.
The Vikings loaded the bases in the bottom of the seven against Memorial, and a walk to Meetr plated one run before the final out was made. The Old Abes scored all of their runs in the third inning.
Meeter and left fielder Kekoa Rogers were both 2 for 3. Meeter drove in two runs and Rogers one, but the Vikings had a six-game winning streak snapped.
Waunakee Triangular
Merrill 6, Onalaska 0
Waunakee 10, Onalaska 0 (5)
WAUNAKEE — The Hilltoppers (5-7) were held to eight hits and had just two against the Warriors in a shortened second game.
Merrill scored three times in the top of the sixth and three times in the top of the seventh in the first game, which featured one single apiece from six Onalaska batters.
Central 11, Wisconsin Rapids 3
Wisconsin Rapids 5, Central 2
WISCONSIN RAPIDS — The RiverHawks (2-9) ended an eight-game losing streak with 11 runs in the first game of the doubleheader split.
Senior center fielder Derrick Pangier was 3 for 4 with a double, three RBIs and two runs scored in the Central victory, which included 11 hits and was claimed with a six-run top of the fourth inning.
Jude Alvarado was 2 for 5 with two runs scored and two RBIs, Dawson Lapic was 2 for 4 with two runs scored and an RBI, and Charlie Buxton scored three runs for Central. Landon Smith stole three bases, and Alvarado and Pangier swiped two each.
Buxton drove in both Central runs in the top of the seventh inning in the second game.
