Wakefield leads the Arlington Seniors at 6-2

By Grant Egger – [email protected]

The Arlington Senior Legion baseball team hosted Wakefield on June 19 and lost, 6-2.
“Tough game,” catcher Tanner Kyllo said. “Good pitcher.”
Post 71, which had Friday night’s game with Hartington canceled due to weather, fell behind 4-0 in the first inning and couldn’t pull away despite Eagle reaching base twice. Arlington was hitless before his fourth-inning double.
“Obviously the first half was tough so (assistant) Wesley Martens said, ‘Might as well go out and get a hack,'” Kyllo said. “So I did that.”
While Wakefield held the home team scoreless at the Washington County Fairgrounds, Post 71 starting pitcher Jackson Stosich bounced back from a shaky 4-0 first inning to keep his team in the game. The visitors scored just twice more, producing a sac fly in the fourth inning and another sacrifice fly in the fifth.
“It was just a process,” Stosich said after striking out seven batters in six innings on the mound. “It was a little hard to pull back, but coach (Rusty) Hilgenkamp told me to be a bulldog and go right through it, attack the zone, it was a big help.”
The right-hander’s effort allowed Arlington to threaten Wakefield’s lead in the bottom of the sixth frame. Kyllo reached first base, earning a two-out walk.
“I feel like I have a good eye, so I’ve watched most of them,” he said of the opposition bids. “And then Andy and Dallin put two balls in play, which was awesome.”
Andy Misfeldt singled in the first before Dallin Franzluebbers knocked in the Eagles’ first run with another to right field.
“We really need this,” Kyllo said. “Give the momentum at least a little.”
Later, Misfeldt also scored when Franzluebbers eluded a Wakefield rundown between first and second base. The race pulled Arlington into fourth, but it was as close to Post 71 as possible.
Misfeldt pitched the top of the seventh inning and struck out two batters, but the Eagles couldn’t get anything going to complete the bottom-inning comeback, even after Burke Quinn reached base.
To win a game like June 19, Stosich said his team needs to find better pitches to hit, but that’s not all.
“And probably throw more strikes,” the pitcher said, taking responsibility.

POST 71 SENIOR LINE OUT
June 19
Wakefield 6, Arlington 2
AWAKENING 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 — 6
ARLO (5-6) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 — 2