Baseball Season Ends for Eagles, Vikings

Southern Door’s Tyler Neinas (4) allowed three runs on six hits with two walks while striking out three Wednesday when the No. 3-seeded Eagles lost their WIAA Division 3 regional championship game at No. 2-seeded Kiel, 3-0. File photo by Kevin Boneske.

Two Door County high school baseball teams saw their season come to an end Wednesday when they were unable to score a run in their respective WIAA regional championship games.

In Division 3, No. 3-seeded Southern Door lost at No. 2-seeded Kiel, 3-0.

The Eagles could only generate three hits over seven innings facing Raiders pitcher Brett Hartlaub, who gave up a first-inning single to Jaden Diller and a pair of fifth-inning singles to Alec Guilette and Jack Peterson.

Hartlaub struck out six and walked two en route to his shutout performance.

Tyler Neinas tossed a complete game for Southern Door, allowing six hits with two walks while striking out three.

Kiel took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, when the home team followed up a leadoff walk with two singles.

The Raiders added two more runs in the fourth inning by following up an Eagles error in the infield with three singles.

Kiel’s 3-0 lead held up for the rest of the game after neither team was able to advance a runner to third base in the final three innings.

Southern Door ended the season 19-4 overall, while the Raiders (22-2) advance to Tuesday’s Division 3 sectional at Shiocton to face No. 8-seeded New Holstein in the semifinals.

Vikings Shut Out by Pacelli

In Division 4, Gibraltar/Washington Island got as many hits as Pacelli, but couldn’t score when the No. 3-seeded Vikings lost 2-0 in Stevens Point to the No. 2-seeded Cardinals.

Pacelli got on the scoreboard with a run in the third inning and scored again in the bottom of the sixth to tally the pair of unearned runs Vikings pitcher Noah Greene gave up over six innings when he allowed two hits and walked four along with a hit batter while striking out three.

Gibraltar/Washington Island recorded its two hits on singles from Rylan Caldecott and  Bennett Isaacson.

The Cardinals advance to Tuesday’s Division 4 sectional in Athens to play in the semifinals against No. 5-seeded Iola-Scandinavia, the team that eliminated Sevastopol in the regional quarterfinals.