Knights, Badgers earn victories
Norway hosted Westwood for a baseball doubleheader Monday and posted a sweep, 2-0 and 7-5.
Landon DeBakker pitched three innings to get the win in the opener, allowing just two hits and fanning four. Cameron Varda and Owen Baij finished the five-inning game, giving up no hits and striking out four as well.
DeBakker had two of the Knights’ three singles and Landon Ross had the other. Norway scored twice in the bottom of the second and held on.
In the second game, which also went five innings, Norway managed five hits and drew four walks. The Knights, grabbing an early 7-3 lead, took advantage of three Patriots errors in the game.
Baij doubled and singled to pace the offense, while Elliott Kraemer cracked two singles. Luke Lagina went one-for one and Carter Cazzola scored twice and was credited with an RBI.
Hunter Langin gained the win in three innings of work, giving up five runs, none of them earned. Baij pitched the final two innings for a save. They surrendered five hits, walked two and whiffed eight.
Norway (3-3) was charged with five errors in the nightcap.
“Our pitchers were efficient today,” said Knights coach Tony Adams. “Congratulations to Landon DeBakker and Hunter Langin on their first high school wins. Our defensive lapses in game two need to be cleaned up and our offense is a work in progress with way too many strikeouts looking,” he added.
Norway hosts Superior Central today.
Niagara 10,
Wausaukee 0
Niagara backed up pitchers Reid Schroeder, Dwight Hedmark and Brayden Bartels with 12 hits in a six-inning shutout of M&O Conference foe Wausaukee.
Remington Buchanan led the way with two doubles and a single. Schroeder and Wyatt Dunkes each hit a triple and a single while Owen Dunkes and Landon Sweig singled twice apiece. Ryker Beard went one-for-one at the plate.
Schroeder worked 4 1/3 innings, allowing one hit, walking two and striking out eight. Hedmark got two outs and gave up no runs despite three walks. He and Bartels, who pitched a perfect sixth, fanned one each.
Hank Nuetzel had Wausaukee’s only hit.
Niagara is at home against Florence on Friday.





