Baseball off to rough start; golfers take second
By Dan Truttschel
Correspondent
A four-run seventh inning Tuesday afternoon was just what the doctor ordered for the Big Foot softball team.
And it propelled the Chiefs to their first victory of 2016 to boot.
Big Foot’s outburst broke a 4-4 tie en route to an 8-4 Rock Valley Conference win at Whitewater. The victory improved the Chiefs to 1-1 overall and 1-1 in the RVC.
After the Whippets took the early lead, the Chiefs knotted the score at 2-2 in the third and jumped out in front with a two-run fourth inning. Whitewater tied the game at 4-4 before Big Foot put things out of reach in the seventh.
Morgan Stalker led the Chiefs with four hits, two runs scored and two RBI. She also had a triple and a double.
Other leaders included Olivia Briggs (two hits, run scored), Abby Snudden (two hits, run, two RBI) and Yesenia Gonzalez (hit, run, three RBI.
Courtney Schoenbeck and Riley Davis combined to work all seven innings in the circle. Davis allowed five hits, an earned run, a walk and struck out nine, while Schoenbeck allowed a hit, two earned runs, four walks and fanned one.
Big Foot opened its season April 1 with an 8-7 loss at Jefferson.
After the Chiefs grabbed a four-run lead, the Eagles responded in the bottom of the sixth with five runs to account for the final score.
Schoenbeck collected two hits and two RBI to lead the Chiefs, followed by Gonzalez with a hit, three runs scored and two RBI. Stalker added a hit, a run scored and drove in two.
Stalker and Davis combined allowed seven hits, four earned runs, four walks and struck out five.
Big Foot made its home debut Thursday and Friday when it hosted McFarland in a RVC matchup and Delavan-Darien in a nonconference contest. Results from those matchups were not available prior to publication.
Baseball drops first two
Big Foot rallied from a five-run deficit in the seventh inning Tuesday afternoon, but host Whitewater pushed the winning run across in the bottom of the frame in a 10-9 RVC victory.
The loss dropped the Chiefs to 0-2 on the young season.
Whitewater led 8-0 before Big Foot rallied for a four-run fifth inning to get back into the game.
Leaders for the Chiefs included Scott Day (two hits, run), Dan Rabic (hit, run, two RBI, double), Austin West (RBI) and Travis Berryman (hit, run, RBI).
Mark Schauf worked the first three innings on the mound and allowed 11 hits, five earned runs, four walks and struck out one. Heath Dillenbeck took the loss, as he pitched 3-2/3 innings and allowed five hits and three earned runs.
An eight-run fifth inning by host Jefferson April 1 broke things open as the Chiefs fell 11-0. Big Foot managed just one hit, a single by Matt Gramm.
Schauf and Jack Hereley combined to work all five innings in the run-rule shortened game, as they allowed seven hits, nine earned runs, seven walks and struck out five.
Big Foot hosted McFarland Thursday and hosts Delavan-Darien Friday in a 4:45 p.m. nonconference contest.
Golfers finish second
Quintin Sharpe fired a 49 to lead the Big Foot boys golf team to a 207 and a second-place finish April 4 in the first RVC mini meet of the season at Beloit Country Club.
Foster Isham was next with a 52, followed by Steve Wolski and Lars Larsen with 53s and Quentin Arnold with a 57.
Palmyra-Eagle won the meet with a 188, followed by Big Foot with a 207, Clinton with a 209, Turner with a 212 and Parkview with a 236.
Big Foot traveled to Prairie Woods Thursday for another mini meet and will compete Saturday at the 16th annual Wolverine Boys Classic at Rivermoor, Waterford, at 8:30 a.m.
