A battle for first place in the Door County Baseball League was as advertised on Sunday afternoon with Sister Bay slipping past Kolberg.
Solo shots provided the offense through the first seven innings with the Bays' Spencer Krause answering the Braves' Trevor Reinhardt in the sixth inning after Kolberg took the 1-0 lead in the first inning. Tom Sawyer gave the Bays the lead with a home run in the eighth inning before Griffin Cole added an important insurance run a few batters later when he reached on a single, triggering an error that allowed Stew Larsen to score. Nick LeCaptain drove in Tyler Neinas to make it 3-2, but the Braves would get no closer as Devin Schinktgen flew out to end the threat in the eighth. Both teams threatened to score in the ninth, but it was a ground out off the bat of Austin Rohe that ended the game and propelled the Bays to first place.
For the Bays, Sawyer had two of the team's six hits to go along with two walks. Sam Forkert and Sawyer Johnson also got hits. Forkert got the win, allowing two runs (2 ER) on four hits and three walks while striking out six across eight innings. Matt Hecht picked up the save.
For the Braves, LeCaptain went 2-4 with an RBI to lead the team. Reinhardt took the loss, allowing three runs (2 ER) on four hits and three walks while striking out five across five innings.


