by Max Mercy

SUPERIOR -- Superior defeated Proctor, 5-2, in a Lake Superior Conference baseball game at the Superior High School field on Sat., April 25. It was the Rails' first game at SHS's new artificial turf field. Proctor was the home team.

Winning pitcher Austin Sears allowed two unearned runs on three hits, five walks, and one hit batsman with three strikeouts in five innings. Morgen Moen pitched two shutout innings for the save. He allowed two hits and one walk and had one strikeout.

Justin Reinkall, Tyler Nystrom, and Sears each had two hits for the Spartans, and Sean O'Neill contributed a two-run single in the first inning to start the scoring. Sears scored two runs.

Proctor's Nathan Carlson and Dylan Pionk hit consecutive singles to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning to bring the tying run to the plate, but Moen retired the next three batters to end the game.

Losing pitcher Michael Gales (1-1 W-L, 1.80 ERA) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks in five innings. He had two strikeouts.

Proctor played against Esko later in the day in the round-robin tournament. Friday's game against Ashland at Superior was canceled.