by Max Mercy

Duluth Marshall defeated Proctor, 7-1, in a Lake Superior Conference baseball game at Wade Stadium on Wed., May 25.

Winning pitcher Derrick Winn allowed one run on four hits and three walks in six innings. He had four strikeouts.

Marshall scored two runs in the third inning. Peter Hansen led off by reaching on an error and he advanced two bases on Nic Semaan's sacrifice hit. Winn bounced into a fielder's choice, but an error on the play left runners on second and third. Both Hansen and Winn scored on Ben Pedersen's two-RBI single.

The Hilltoppers plated five runs on six hits and one error in the fourth. Hansen hit a two-run triple, and Semaan, Carter Sullivan, and Cole Maccoux delivered RBI singles.

Zach Gunderson (2-2 W-L, 2.65 ERA) took the loss. He allowed seven runs (five earned) on eight hits, three walks, and one hit batsman. He had two strikeouts. Cole Johnson pitched two shutout innings in relief. Johnson allowed one hit and one walk with no strikeouts.

Winn faced three batters in the seventh without recording an out. Bryce Huffman singled and Gunderson and Blake Koski walked to load the bases. Pedersen relieved Winn. Ryan Lear hit into a 5-3 double play, scoring Ricky Steel (who ran for Huffman), but dampening Proctor's threat. Pederson then got a strikeout to end the contest.

Hansen was 2-for-4 with a triple, two runs, and two RBI. Semaan was 1-for-2 with a run and an RBI. Winn was 1-for-4 with a run. Pedersen was 1-for-3 with two RBI. Sullivan was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Maccoux was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Maddux Baggs was 1-for-3 with a run, and Kevin Snyder was 1-for-3 with a run.

Huffman was 2-for-3. Luke Nordquist and Jordan Linder had Proctor's other two hits.

John Aase, who batted 0-for-3, ended an assumed school-record 19-game hitting streak. He was one game away from making the state Top 10 record book. Aase batted .484 (31 for 64), with 15 doubles and two home runs during the streak which began on June 9, 2016. He has hit safely in 26 of his last 28 games, going back to May 17, 2016.

Proctor, now 7-9, hosts Esko on Thurs., May 25 at 4:30 p.m., for the last regular-season game.