Windsor/Stew-Stras Beats St. Anthony, 10-5

The Bulldogs opened with a 1-0 first inning lead on the Hatchets. Beau Adams drew a walk and Colton Fearday followed with a single. Eli Levitt singled to load the bases. With one out, Brock Fearday was hit by a pitch and that brought Adams home with the bases still loaded. However, a fly ball out by Eli LInk to right field produced the second out and the righterfielder threw to first  and the first baseman threw to third to catch Colton Fearday off base for the final out.

Windsor/Stew-Stras tied in the second inning. With two outs, Carter Chaney singled. Rhett Rincker drew a walk and Kendall Morris singled home Chaney.

The lead went to the Hatchets in the third when Austin Wittenberg doubled, Tyler Wetherall singled. With two outs, Jordan Wittenbrog singled home A. Wittenberg and WSS led 2-1.

Everything was quiet through the next two innings before WSS scored two in the sixth on a double by Graham Casey and singles by Chaney and Rhett Rincker and led 4-1.

The seventh turned into a hotbed of scoring for both teams. Windsor/Stew-Stras tallied six for a 10-1 lead. Garnering singles in the frame were Wetherall, A. Wittenberg with his single driving in two runs and Chaney, also with a two RBI single. Casey doubled home two more runs. Gavin Wernsing Rincker and Kendall Morris drew a walk each.

Here came the Bulldogs in the bottom of the frame with four runs but it wasn't near enough. Adams led off with a double while C. Fearday, Levitt and Angelo Mendella had back-to-back-to-back singles. Eli Link doubled and Will Hoene and Brody Niebrugge had a single each. But the hole was too deep for the Bulldogs to claw out of.

Casey went 6 2/3 innings for the win on the mound. He allowed 11 hits, five walks while striking out six.

A. Wittenberg was three for five with two singles, a double and two RBI, Casey two doubles and two RBI, Chaney three singles and two RBI and Rincker, Morris and J. Wittenberg with a single and an RBI each.

St. Anthony was led by Link with a single and double, Hoene with two singles, Niebrugge wth a single, double and an RBI and Fearday and Levitt with two singles each. St. Anthony ends the season with a 19-10 record.

Windsor/Stew-Stras advances with a 21-4 mark to face North Clay (Louisville) at 11 a.m. Saturday for the sectional championship and the right to head to the Carbondale Super-Sectional Monday.

Class 1A St. Anthony Sectional

WSS                        011    002    6    --    10-13-1

St. Anthony            100    000    4    --      5-12-0

WP -- Casey. LP --Levitt.

Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg -- A. Wittenberg, 2 singles, double, 2 RBI; Wetherall, 2 singles; J. Wittenberg, single, 1 RBI; Casey, 2 doubles, 2 RBI; Chaney, 3 singles, 2 RBI; Rincker, single, 1 RBI; Morris, single

St. Anthony -- Adams, double; C. Fearday, 2 singles; Levitt, 2 singles; Mendella, single, 2 RBI; Link, single, double; Hoene, 2 singles; Niebrugge, single, double, 1 RBI