Coach Gregg Wood and the Wolverines are on a roll, having won four of their last five Mountain Valley Conference baseball games including a 4-2 victory over visiting Lisbon on May 25.

Daren Wood pitched a complete game, scattering six hits and striking out five Greyhound batters. He gave up just one walk. Both of Lisbon’s runs were unearned.

Conlon Ranta drove in three of the Wolverines’ four runs with a pair of base hits and also assisted in the game’s final put out.

Both teams were scoreless through the first three innings. Wiscasset threatened in the first inning after Grant Hefler led off with a double to center field. Wood’s groundout moved Hefler along to third but Lisbon pitcher Nick Austin worked his way out of the jam, popping up the next two batters.

The Greyhounds scored the game’s first run in the fourth inning. After retiring the first two batters, Chris Normand lined a base hit and was awarded second and third base on a throwing error in a pickoff attempt. He then scored on a pass ball. Wiscasset left the bases loaded in the home half of the fourth.

With one out in the fifth inning, Hefler lined a base hit up the middle and stole second. Wood then drew a base on balls and Ranta lined a single down the third base line, scoring Hefler and Wood. Tyler Bailey then reached base on an error. The next batter struck out but not before the umpire called a balk on the pitcher, sending Ranta to third base. Logan Orr then delivered a huge base hit, scoring Ranta.

The Wolverines then loaded the bases after Brandon Sprague was hit-by-a-pitch for the second time in the game. He’s leading the team in that category having been hit in the batter’s box 11 times this season. (Ouch!) Austin then struck out the next batter ending the inning, Wiscasset leaving the bases loaded for the second time.

Wiscasset added an insurance run in the sixth, with Ranta driving in Jake Traylor who singled.

The Greyhounds got their final run in the seventh. Normand singled, his second hit of the game, and scored on Austin’s base hit. With the Greyhounds down to their final out, Ranta’s toss to second baseman Bryson Grover, who applied the tag, ended the game.

The win, the Wolverines’ third in row for Coach Gregg Wood lifted the team’s record to 8-7 with one game left in the regular season. Before the win over Lisbon, Wiscasset was ranked 11th in the heal points and appeared to be heading to the playoffs. They travel to wales to play Oak Hill Friday.

Wolverines feast on Seahawks

Grant Hefler went two for four with a double and a triple and the Wolverines pounded out 11 hits in a 9-1 romp over the Seahawks at Boothbay May 23.

Bailey went three for five at the plate driving in three runs for Wiscasset and Ranta had a pair of RBIs with two singles and a double. Sprague and Grover each had an RBI as well.

Ranta, the Wolverines starting pitcher, worked four scoreless innings allowing just a pair of Seahawk hits while striking out three. Traylor worked the final innings, giving up one run on one hit. He struck out four, walked one and hit a batter.

Wood went two for three at the plate with a pair of singles.

Wiscasset scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second, two in the fourth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh. The Seahawks run came in the final inning

Grant Giles went the distance on the mound for the Seahawks. He allowed nine runs on 11 hits, struck out seven, walked five, and hit two batters.

Ramblers nipped

Wiscasset came away with a 4-3 win over visiting the Winthrop Ramblers on May 20.

Wood delivered the game-winning hit, an RBI single in the seventh,scoring Hefler, who had walked.

After spotting the Ramblers two unearned runs Wiscasset Middle High School rallied for three runs in the third. Ranta drove in two runs with a single and Ronald Drake picked up an RBI with a sacrifice fly.

Ranta finished with two hits in three at bats to lead the Wolverines. Sprague, Hefler and Wood each had a single. Bailey went the distance on the mound for Wiscasset.

He gave up three runs on six hits, walked one and struck out 11.