River Falls Fighting Fish

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween Fish fans!

Happy Halloween! 🎃

From - The Mustache marauder, The Lorax and an unimpressed teen.

09/15/2026

Last post before we put the social medias to bed for the offseason: Team Leaders/Single-Season Records

Thanks to Bob Burrows and e.pics52 on Instagram (Evan Peterson) for the photos!

Lucas Luedtke led the team in 8 offensive categories including batting average, hits, doubles, RBIs, and on-base percentage which are all new team records! Luedtke’s 10 homers ties his 2023 season and Joel Schaffer’s 2011 season. Spencer Diedrich’s 12 homers in 2022 and 15 in 2023 remain as the 2nd and 1st most. Luedtke and Diedrich’s 2023 seasons are the only 2 with higher slugging percentages and Luedtke’s 2023 OPS stays at number 1 by being only .013 points higher.

Jake Lindsay finishes the season with a 2.48 ERA, 74 strikeouts, and a .966 WHIP. No new Fish records but still a very good season!

Chad Patko ties his own record he set last season with 67 runs scored and sets a new record for stolen bases with 22 bags while tying the 2nd most triples in a season!

Innings eater Kyle Fritz goes 76.1 innings with a team-leading 10 wins on the mound which matches his 2021 season and James Georgakas’s 2016! Fritz’s 13 wins in 2022 continues to be the most wins in a season by a pitcher.

Last year’s leader in walks Trey Larson, leads the team again in walks with 3 more than last season. He trails only Brian Giebel’s 2024 season of 44. Larson also led the team in assists with 78.

Brian Giebel ties Nathan Brom’s hit by pitch record of 14! Hopefully all the bruises are gone by now.

The putout leader for 2026 is Chase McQuade! McQuade played well behind the plate all year!

As a team, the Fish are victorious 37 times! Good for 2nd All-Time just behind 2025’s 39 wins! The longest win streak of the season ties the 4th All-Time record of 13!

09/01/2026

50! Your River Falls Fighting Fish set the new team record for home runs in a season with a total of 50, done by 11 different players!

Lucas Luedtke - 10 HRs
Brian Giebel - 8 HRs
Chase McQuade - 7 HRs
Andy Metcalf - 5 HRs
Chad Patko - 5 HRs
Austin Curti - 4 HRs
Trey Larson - 3 HRs
Eli Baker - 3 HRs
Henry Zimmermann - 2 HRs
Cayden Mueller - 2 HRs
Jaxin Larson - 1 HR

Shoutout to our commentators Kevin Westhuis, Bill Jensen, and Mark Vrieze! We love your commentary (River Falls Sports Broadcasting) and always go back and rewatch your streams! We appreciate the amount of hardwork you put into it!

08/26/2026

Not the way we wanted it to end but sometimes you just get beat, and that’s baseball. Congratulations to Tilden, they earned it. Win or lose the final game it always feels bittersweet. No more looking forward to Wednesday night games at the bank in front of the people in the community who’ve supported us for years. College guys go back to college, old guys go back to work, and weekends become empty. I want all of our Fish fans to know that we love and appreciate you all. It can’t be done without you.

With a 9-1 loss in the WBA State Championship at Jack Hackman Field in Marshfield, your Fighting Fish end 37-6. Instead of moping around and feeling bad for ourselves, I’d like to go over the cool things that happened this season:

May 16th: Eli Condon and Kyle Fritz combine for a no-hitter in New Richmond!

May 25th: Fish defeat Hudson 7-0 to win the Plum City Tournament Championship!

May 27th: Fish earn the 500th win in franchise history after a 4-1 victory in Red Wing!

June 5th: After giving up 12 runs and getting down by 8 in the top of the 7th against Stockmen’s Irish, Fish rally back to win 15-13 including a 2-run shot by Chase McQuade to take the lead in the 8th and two ejections!

June 20th: After making a game-saving catch just 3 days before, Brian Giebel makes another game-saving catch! This time in Prescott with the tying run on 2nd and the winning run on 1st. Giebel preserves the win for the Fish and Kyle Fritz’s complete game win on the mound!

June 26th: Andy Metcalf goes 4-4 with 3 homers, 5 runs scored, and 7 runs batted in as the Fish win 26-0 in Ellsworth!

July 15th: A wild week of 5 games starting with Fox 9’s Town Ball Tour! A 8-5 win vs Hudson in front of a crowd of 2,000 people!

July 16th, 18th, and 19th: We were invited to the Charlie Larca Invitational Tournament in Jordan, Minnesota. We ended up 2-1 and were impressed by how awesome of a field they have there. Definitely check it out if you ever get the chance. Beano McQuade also made his pitching debut for the Fish there and went the entire game allowing no runs, 1 hit, and striking out 5 batters!

July 22nd: Down 8-6 in the 9th with 2 outs, 3 straight doubles are hit to comeback and win the game! Chad Patko doubles in Brian Giebel, Luedtke doubles in Patko, and Chase McQuade doubles in Luedtke!

July 25th: Fish complete the undefeated league season with a win in Spring Valley! Austin Curti, Andy Metcalf, and Trey Larson all go yard!

July 29th: 2nd Annual Fish Sticks game was a blast! Such a fun night with a great crowd!

August 9th: Fish punch their ticket to the WBA Finals. Lucas Luedtke hits a homer to tie the single-season team record for home runs then Eli Baker breaks the record 5 batters later!

Another summer of memories that will be cherished forever. Until next time, Fish fans.

08/16/2026

Championship game today at 12! Tune in at Zaleski Sports on YouTube!

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08/16/2026

Fish jump on Everest tonight to move on to the WBA title game Sunday in Marshfield!

Championship game Sunday: 12pm first pitch against a really good Tilden Tigers team. If you can’t make it to Marshfield, the game will again be streamed by Zaleski Sports on YouTube (link below). Go Fish!

Championship game live stream, Sunday at 12pm:

https://www.youtube.com/live/7Z4lpTTMUZI?is=XSk-9QRwiuFu0g9y

08/15/2026

Fish win 10-2 in Marshfield to open the WBA finals today. Jake Lindsay goes 8 innings strong on the mound, and after this blast by Austi Curti to break a 2-2 tie the team never looked back.

They will face the Everest Merchants tonight in round 2, official start time 7:30. You can watch on Zaleski Sports here: https://www.youtube.com/live/t_P1fFZ6Ofw?is=vfUTocwNtXQdZ8wS

08/15/2026

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08/15/2026

1:30pm tomorrow vs Osseo! Here is the link for those of you that can’t make it to Marshfield! If the Fish win, game 2 is scheduled for 7:30pm vs the winner of La Crescent and Everest!

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08/11/2026

Regional playoffs highlights:

Eau Claire Bears 12-1 W
(0:00) Jake Lindsay goes 8 innings with 9 strikeouts and only 2 runs allowed

(0:34) 2 double plays were turned, the first one being a 4-6 double play started by Chad Patko and completed by Trey Larson

(0:40) The next one was a 5u-3 double play, Cayden Mueller to Kyle Fritz

Minocqua Wood Ducks 14-0 W
(0:47) Lucas Luedtke hits his team leading 9th home run of the year, a homer that ties the single-season team record for home runs (47)

(1:24) 5 batters later, Eli Baker breaks the team record for home runs in a season with his 3rd of the year