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Published - Monday, May 12, 2008

AREA ROUNDUP: Lee propels Dover-Eyota/St. Charles girls to meet title

By Winona Daily News staff

ST. CHARLES, Minn. — Becca Lee won three events in leading the Dover-Eyota/St. Charles high school girls track and field team to a Three Rivers Conference Meet championship on Saturday.

Lee won the 100-meter dash (13.17 seconds), the 100 hurdles (16.5) and the 300 hurdles (49.4) as D-E/St. Charles took the meet with 150 points, winning seven events.

On the boys side, Tom Pesch and Tommy Tjepkes each won a pair of events in leading Plainview-Elgin-Millville to the win with 179 points.

Pesch won the 1,600 (4:32.95) and the 3,200 (9:55.96), while Tjepkes won the 110 hurdles (16.54) and the 300 hurdles (43.3).

Wabasha-Kellogg’s Andrew Taubel won both the long jump (20-9½) and the triple jump (40-10).

Baseball

Three Rivers

W-K 18, Chatfield 12

WABASHA, Minn. — Chatfield and Wabasha-Kellogg combined for 36 hits and eight errors.

It was apparent things were going that way when Bryan Neis led off the game with a home run for Chatfield. Neis was 2-for-6 and teammate Mitch Obey was 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs.

W-K’s Kyle Sill was 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs, while teammates Jordan Dick and Jason Lamey were both 3-for-4. Dick had three RBIs.

P-E-M 8-14, D-E 9-7

PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Ben Keilholtz went 7-for-8 on the day for Plainview-Elgin-Millville, but needed to go 8-for-8.

After Matthan Kohan hit his third home run of the year, this one a two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh to pull P-E-M within two, Keilholtz eventually came up with the tying run on first.

He laced a hit to right, but the right fielder was there to catch it.

P-E-M was done in by Dover-Eyota in the fourth inning of the first game after surrendering eight runs — four earned — six hits, two walks and two errors.

The worst of it for P-E-M came when Matt Osten nailed a grand slam.

Brian Schneider was 2-for-4 with two RBIs for P-E-M in Game 2. Kohan got the win, striking out eight and walking none.

La Crescent 3-7, Stewartville 2-4

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Ian Anderson scored on an error in the fourth inning to give the Lancers the lead for good in the opener.

Brandon Verthein had 10 strikeouts in the Game 1 win.

Coulee Tournament

VIROQUA, Wis. — Onalaska Luther dropped two games, losing 14-8 to Viroqua and 8-3 to Black River Falls.

Shawn Scherer went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs to lead the Knights against Viroqua.

Softball

Pepin Tournament

PEPIN, Wis. — Emily Hoffman allowed just four hits and struck out eight to lead St. Charles over Turtle Lake 5-0 in the semifinals, and Erin Abbott allowed two earned runs and struck out 10 to lead the Saints over Pepin 12-5 in the title game.

Taige Thoreson, who went 2-for-3 against Turtle Lake, hit a three-run triple in the Saints’ four-run first inning against Pepin, and Hoffman hit a two-run home run in the fifth to put the game out of reach.

Hoffman finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and Emily Nelson went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs. Abbott and Katie Dunlay each had two hits to help the Saints improve to 15-0 on the year.

Mauston Tournament

MAUSTON, Wis. — Ali Ritscher struck out 10 and went the distance in Alma’s 5-4, 11-inning win over Royall in the opener.

Mackenzie Lowenhagen scored Jenny Sampson on a sacrifice fly to cap the Rivermen’s four-run 11th inning.

Lowenhagen went 3-for-5 to lead Alma to a 9-2 win over Necedah in the semifinals. Ritscher, who again earned a complete-game win, went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs.

Lowenhagen went 1-for-2 and had the Rivermen’s lone RBI in their 11-1 loss to Westby in the championship game.

Ritscher, who pitched all six innings against Westby, finished the week with a 5-2-1 record and 55 innings pitched.

La Crescent Tournament

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Felicia Meyer raised her strikeout total to 212 this season in leading Hope Lutheran to the consolation championship.

Meyer had two strikeouts in the Patriots’ 19-0 loss to Lake City, 16 in a 3-1 win over Rushford-Peterson, and 19 in a nine-inning, 5-4 win over Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop.

Meyer also drove in the game-winning run against GFW, scoring Lacey Ellinghuysen, who went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI, from second base with a two-out single.

Viroqua Tournament

Viroqua 10, Blair-Taylor 3

VIROQUA, Wis. — Melissa Olson struck out seven and went 2-for-3 with two doubles, but B-T managed three runs on just three hits.

Nonconference

Luther 2-10, Onalaska 1-0

ONALASKA, Wis. — Onalaska Luther had a record-setting Saturday in the sweep over rival Onalaska.

The two wins put the Knights at 16 for the season — the most in school history.

In the Game 2 win, Courtney Hoeg set a single-game record with three doubles, going 3-for-3. She also struck out six and walked three in the win, her 13th of the season, also a single-season record. Hoeg was 2-for-3 in Game 1.