The Luxemburg Casco Spartans softball season has come to an end, despite a pair of late inning rally attempts, falling to Foxes Valley Lutheran 3-2 as heard on 104.1 WRLU. 

 

The Spartans struck first, as Alayna Deprez drove in Claire Schleis in the top of the 1st inning, grabbing an early 1-0 lead.  The Foxes answered back in the bottom of the frame, after Claire Pfrang hit a lead off triple and came in to score on a Madi Babcock sacrifice fly.  FVL grabbed the lead in the second as Paige Leavitt and Brianna Dahlke each drove in a run, while reaching on an error, putting the Foxes up 3-1. The Spartans were held in check in the third but knocked on the door in the 4th. Stella Schleis was thrown out at the plate, trying to score on a safety squeeze.  LC stranded two in its best scoring chance since the 1st.  

 

The Spartans defense tightened up, and kept Fox Valley Lutheran off the board despite traffic through most of the game.  Luxemburg Casco struck back in the 6th, when Claire Schleis collected her second infield single of the contest and came around to score on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Riley Westlund.  Luxemburg Casco did strand a runner in the frame but retired the Foxes in order in the bottom of the inning giving the team a shot to see if it had one last rally in them.  

 

After a leadoff strikeout in the top of the 7th, Abigail Buckmaster came up with another huge moment, ripping a double into deep right field. Coach Schoen elected to replace Buckmaster with a courtesy runner, who was thrown out at third on Alayna Heurkens hit a comebacker to the pitcher.  Down to its final out, Rylan Kaminski ripped a single to left field to put the go ahead runner on first. Unfortunately, the Spartans season came to an end on a Claire Schleis strikeout.  

 

Fox Valley Lutheran will meet up with Denmark on Thursday with a chance to go to State.  Luxemburg Casco graduates 7 seniors, Kirstin Wendricks, Vivienne Ducat, Brianna Bray, Alayna Deprez, Baylee Wypiszenski, Rylan Kaminski, and Riley Westlund.