WASHBURN, Wis. — The Lake Superior Sea Dogs and Washburn Sharptails split two close games in a doubleheader Sunday, July 21, in Washburn, maintaining their deadlock in the Upper 13 League amateur baseball standings.
Washburn won game one 9-8 in extra innings, while Lake Superior took the second game, 6-5.
In game one, Dawson Rannow tied it for Lake Superior, which was down to its last strike in the seventh inning, with his second homer of the game. However, Washburn loaded the bases for Wyatt Obey in the bottom of the eighth, who drove in the game-winning run.
Rannow drove in four runs in a 3-for-4 performance, while Hayden Smith added a pair of hits.
In the second game, the Sea Dogs got out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning when pitcher Eric Hinnenkamp recorded a key strikeout.
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The Sea Dogs broke a 5-5 tie in the fifth inning when Rannow scored on an RBI single by Josh Monreal. Hinnenkamp, Monreal, Smith and Logan Nylund had two hits apiece. Hinnenkamp allowed one earned run on seven hits in a complete game with eight strikeouts.
The series split creates a three-team logjam in the league standings, with Lake Superior, Washburn and now Glidden at 7-2 with one league game remaining. Lake Superior’s regular-season finale is July 28 in Superior vs. Ashland.
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