Two four-run innings sank the Luxemburg-Casco baseball team in both ends of its doubleheader against Little Chute on Saturday, losing game one 9-5 (11 innings) and 8-3 in game two.

 

In game one, the Mustangs got off to a fast start thanks to a two-run home run by Noah Faccio in the first inning and an RBI single by Rowen Schmidt in the third inning to put them up 3-0. The Spartans began to rally after that, sparked by a two-run single in the fourth inning by Caleb Radart to make it 3-2. Radart would later tie the game at three when his single drove in Landon Derenne. 

Thanks to the Mustangs' Dawson Roseman and Brock Gardner and the Spartans' Riley Richards and Gavin Lax, the game would stay that way until the 10th inning. Both teams would put multiple runners on base only to come away empty-handed. Faccio would not let Lax off the hook in the 10th when he deposited a pitch over the right field fence to make it 5-3 only to see the Spartans come back against Gardner with Reagan Doell driving in two on a single. The Mustangs had one more rally in them as a double from Trevor Verhagen, a homer from Reece Joten, and a single from Faccio all drove in runs in the 11th inning to give the Mustangs the win. The rally spoiled multi-hit games from Lax, Landon Derenne, Radart, and Doell.

In game two, both teams struck in the first inning. The Spartans' Ethan Werner registered an RBI single, and the Mustangs pieced together two runs on an error and a double from Noah Faccio. The Spartans tied the game in the third inning when Werner grounded into a fielder's choice that brought home Eli Derenne.

The Mustangs struck back in the fifth inning with two runs on an RBI single from Dawson Roseman. The Spartans' Jacob Coisman got one of the runs back on a towering home run to center field in the sixth inning to make it 4-3, but the Mustangs scored four runs in the bottom of the inning to push the game out of reach. Landon Derenne had two hits in the loss.

The Spartans are back in action on Tuesday when they play their first of two games next week against Oconto Falls. They end the regular season on May 27th at Green Bay Preble.