Xavier baseball drops season-opener at Shawano

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SHAWANO – Shawano scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to slide past Xavier 7-3 in the Bay Conference baseball opener for both teams on Monday at Memorial Park.

Xavier led 3-2 after Reid Hietpas smacked a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, but couldn’t hold on as Shawano rallied with a big sixth inning.

With two outs, Shawano (2-0 overall) had five-straight hits, including a two-run triple by Pete Bruette, to overtake Xavier, which was also playing its season-opener.

Hietpas had two of Xavier’s three hits and drove in all three runs in the loss.

Xavier returns to action Monday, April 8, with a home conference game against Seymour at Don Hawkins Field at Appleton Legion Post 38. Game time is 6:30 p.m.

Shawano 7, Xavier 3
Xavier   100   020   0   –   3   3   4
Shawano   020   005   x   –   7   9   1
WP: Pete Bruette. LP: Parker Bleck.
SO: Bleck (4 inn.) 6, Reid Hietpas (2 inn.) 1; Tom Keszo (4 1/3 inn.) 2, Bruette (2 2/3 inn.) 3. BB: Bleck 2, Hietpas 2; Keszo 4, Bruette 3.
Top hitters: X, Hietpas 2×3, HR, 3 RBI. S, Beyer 2 RBI; Jerzy Brocker 2×4, RBI; Bruette 2×4, 3B, 2 RBI; Keszo 2×3, RBI.
Records: Xavier 0-1 overall and Bay Conference; Shawano 2-0, 1-0 Bay Conference.