Hawks Settle for Second in Wood Bat Tournament

The Greenfield baseball team made it all the way to the championship game of the South Milwaukee/Cudahy Wood Bat Tournament on Saturday, only to be denied by a familiar foe.

The Hawks lost, 9-2, in the final to New Berlin West, a team Greenfield beat just two days earlier in a Woodland Conference contest.

Before losing in the final, Greenfield opened the tournament with a 9-1 win over Shorewood.

The Greyhounds committed eight errors and the Hawks' Korben Biersack, Tyler Haim and Tyler Braden drove in two runs each. Tyler Laverdure earned the win with six solid innings pitched.

In the next game against Cudahy, Greenfield pounded out 13 hits, including six extra-base hits, en route to a 10-7 win. 

Greenfield scored two runs in the bottom of the third inning after two were out and nobody was on base to take a 3-2 lead. Nate Rios (single) and Biersack (double) drove in one run each.

In a four-run fourth inning that snapped a 3-3 tie, Haim, Peter Eidsmoe and Connor Lewandowski tallied RBI singles.

Jordan Koutnik, a sophomore call-up, picked up the save by getting out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh.  He also doubled in his only at-bat for the Hawks, who improved to 10-5.