Fox Valley Lutheran baseball drops two at Wisconsin Lutheran Triangular
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MILWAUKEE – The Fox Valley Lutheran baseball team dropped both games at the Wisconsin Lutheran Triangular on Saturday at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
The Foxes lost a slugfest to Lakeside Lutheran 21-15 and fell to host Wisconsin Lutheran 9-1 to see their losing skid reach four in a row.
In the loss to Lakeside Lutheran (11-8), FVL scored in every inning but could not stop the Warriors’ hitting as they had four innings with four or more runs.
Michael Gutekunst had three hits and three RBI, and scored four times, Lincoln Thede had four hits and scored twice, and Noah Mayer had three hits and three RBI for the Foxes.
FVL (12-11) had seven hits, but managed only a single run in the loss to Wisconsin Lutheran (18-4).
Conor Tetting had an RBI single in the fourth inning for the Foxes only run.
Wyatt Schlueter, Jack Schlueter and Thede each had two hits for FVL.
Fox Valley Lutheran will be at home against Freedom for a nonconference game on Monday at 4:30 p.m.
Warriors 21, Foxes 15
Fox Valley Lutheran 142 133 1 – 15 17 4
Lakeside Lutheran 044 616 x – 21 16 4
WP: Forrest Buchholz. LP: Brady Popp.
SO: Luke Beyer (2 2/3 inn.) 2, Popp (1 inn.) 1, Michael Gutekunst (1 2/3 inn.) 1, Noah Mayer (2/3 inn.) 1; Jack Oppermann (3 inn.) 1, Buccholz (3 inn.) 1, Kasen Tardie (0 inn.) 0, Malachi Fredenberg (1 inn.) 1. BB: Beyer 2, Popp 3, Gutekunst 4, Mayer 0; Oppermann 4, Buccholz 3, Tardie 3, Fredenberg 1.
Top hitters: FVL, Gutekunst 3×4, 4 runs, 3 RBI; Luke Heimerl 2 runs; Jack Schlueter 2×4, 2B, 4 RBI; Mayer 3×5, 2B, 3 RBI; Spencer Bromm 2 runs; Jackson Thede 4×5, 2 runs, RBI; Popp 2×3, 2 runs, RBI. LL, Owen Marty 4×5, 3 2Bs, 3B, 7 RBI; Cooper Brakmanis 3×6, 2B, 2 runs, 4 RBI; Jacob Marty 3 RBI; Kiptyn Smillie 3B, 4 runs; Buccholz 2 runs; Cooper Genz 3×3, 4 runs; Fred Gallatin 2 runs, 3 RBI; Cameron Vogel 3 runs, 2 RBI.
Records: Fox Valley Lutheran 12-10; Lakeside Lutheran 11-8.
Vikings 9, Foxes 1
Wisconsin Lutheran 103 0005 0 – 9 10 1
Fox Valley Lutheran 000 100 0 – 1 7 4
WP: Jackson French. LP: Heimerl.
SO: Brayden Abramowski (2 inn.) 1, French (3 inn.) 0, Eli Dreier (2 inn.) 4; Heimerl (5 1/3 inn.) 5, Wyatt Schlueter (2/3 inn.) 0, Mayer (1 inn.) 0. BB: Abramowski 0, French 1, Dreier 1; Heimerl 2, W. Schlueter 1, Mayer 1.
Top hitters: WL, Dreier 2B, 3 RBI; Khalil Volbrecht 2B; Chase Muma 2×4, 2 runs, RBI; Carter Fry 2×3, 2 runs. FVL, W. Schlueter 2×3; J. Schlueter 2×3; Thede 2×3.
Records: Fox Valley Lutheran 12-11; Wisconsin Lutheran 16-4.

