The Kewaunee Storm and the Gibraltar Vikings battled in a tightly contested doubleheader Friday that saw the Storm earn a walk-off 4-3 win in the opener and a 3-3 tie in extra innings.
In the first game, Gibraltar jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a Cameron Munao RBI single. Kewaunee rallied in the third inning with three straight hits capped by a two-run home run by Brady Pribek to left field.
Gibraltar rallied to score two runs in the fifth inning on RBI singles by Aaron Brey and Munao.
The score stayed that way until the Storm walked off with the win with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning when Peyton Schuller beat the throw and scored on a fielder's choice grounder by Collin Spranger.
Waylon Delain picked up the win in the opener for the Storm going 3.1 innings and allowing only one hit and a walk while striking out three. He also went 4 x 4 at the plate to lead the Storm offense.
Brett Isaacson-Krueger took the tough loss allowing the one run after replacing Aaron Brey in the seventh inning.
Munao and Brey finished with three hits to lead the Viking's attack.
The nightcap saw the Storm take an early 2-0 lead and Gibraltar came up with a key two-run single by Liam Lindenberg to tie the game in the fourth inning. The Storm recaptured the lead 3-2 in the sixth inning only to see the Vikings’ Aaron Brey tie the game in the bottom of the seventh with a two-out, two-strike double to right center field, scoring Brady Kita from second base.
Both teams went scoreless in the eighth inning and the umpires and coaches decided to suspend the tied game with a possible rescheduling to complete it if the game would factor into the conference championship at the end of the season.
Connor Kilgore and Toby Kunkel led the Storm with two hits each and Manao and Marshall Maltby had two hits apiece for the Vikings in game two.
Brady Pribek and Jackson Walecka pitched four innings each in game two and allowed only four hits each and two walks a piece for the Storm.
Isaacson-Krueger went five innings not allowing any earned runs and Kita pitched the final three innings allowing just one run.
