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Arrowhead players celebrate a WIAA baseball tournament win. | Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WIAA Baseball: Arrowhead 6, WB West 4STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- Brian Crook belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift Hartland Arrowhead to a 6-4 win over West Bend West in quarterfinals of the WIAA Summer Baseball Tournament Wednesday. Arrowhead (32-5) advances to meet the winner of New Holstein/Muskego in a semifinal game Thursday. West Bend West finished its season at 26-6. Crook, who had three hits, scored the tying run in the bottom of the seventh inning on a two-out RBI single by Matt Mayoras. In the top of the seventh, the Spartans snapped a tie when B.J. Albrecht perfectly executed a suicide squeeze bunt for the second time to score Eric Ducharme. Andrew Bauer was the winning pitcher in relief of Jordan Paszek, while Jon Nick took the loss for West. ------ West Bend West 300 000 10 - 4 7 0 Arrowhead 000 300 12 - 6 11 3 WP-Andrew Bauer. LP-Jon Nick. BB-Ryan Schilter 2, Nick 2; Jordan Paszek 5, Bauer 2. SO-Schilter 5, Nick 3; Paszek 7, Bauer 3. 2B-West Bend West, Shane Hayes; Arrowhead, Chris Pendergast, Brian Crook. HR-West Bend West, Danny Mueller; Arrowhead, Crook. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
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