HOLMEN — The Holmen High School baseball team remained unbeaten in the MVC and ran its winning streak to three games with a 6-4 victory over visiting Central on Monday.
Senior Paul Goryl struck out 11 RiverHawks, and senior Abe Henderson blasted a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning to help the Vikings improve to 5-1-1 overall and 4-0 in the conference. They took over sole possession of the MVC lead over second-place Logan (5-2, 3-0), which didn’t play on Monday and hosts Tomah on Tuesday.
Holmen added two runs in the second inning and two more in the fourth after Abraham’s home run also scored Noah Oswald, who had drawn a walk. It also erased a 1-0 Central lead after Jude Alvarado singled and later scored on a Liam Branson groundout in the top of the first.
Alvarado brought home another Central run in the top of the second while grounding into a double play, but an error allowed two Holmen runs to score in the bottom of the second. A Tyler Rosenow double and another Central error produced Holmen runs in the fourth, and Erik Ramseier hit a two-run homer in the top of the sixth for Central.
Dawson Lapic pitched for the RiverHawks (1-6, 0-3) and allowed two earned run on five hits and six walks with seven strikeouts over 4.2 innings. Goryl allowed four earned runs on seven hits without walking a batter over six innings for the Vikings.
Aquinas 9, Sparta 2
LA CROSSE — The Blugolds (6-2, 2-1) won their third game in a row and scored six of their runs in the first two innings against the Spartans at Lee Gilbert Field.
Aquinas recorded five of its 11 hits during a four-run second inning that gave it a 6-0 lead.
Jonny Deets hit an RBI double to get the scoring started in the second, and Cullen Sackman followed with a two-run single before an error gave the Blugolds another run.
Sackman was 2 for 2 with three RBIs, and Brayden Young and Jackson Knothe both had two hits and scored two runs. Knothe also had two of the Blugolds’ seven stolen bases.
Junior Waylon Hargrove pitched six innings and allowed no earned runs on three hots and two walks while striking out seven batters.
Tomah 9, Onalaska 6
ONALASKA — The Hilltoppers (4-5, 3-2) didn’t score until after the Timberwolves scored the first six runs.
Ian Kowal went 2 for 3, and he and Carson Zinnecker each drove in a run for Onalaska, which had just five hits. Tyler Kowal scored twice for the Hilltoppers.
Aidan Klema was 2 for 5 and drove in three runs for Tomah (3-7, 1-3) in its first conference win.
