05/28/2025
Hawks close out the regular season with an extra innings win at New London. The Shawano Hawks finished up their conference season Tuesday night at New London, but it took them 8 innings to do so. Shawano got on the board in the top of the 2nd inning when Crew Wiesnicht scored on a fielders choice to make it 1-0. The game remained 1-0 until the bottom of the 5th inning when New London scored on an RBI single by Logan Tenhaken. The game was scoreless in the 6th and the 7th innings. Shawano worked out of a jam in the bottom of the 7th inning. New London had runners on 2nd and 3rd but Grant Keszo pitched out of it with a couple of ground balls to give the Hawks a chance in the 8th inning. Pete Bruette lead off with an infield hit and a balk moved him to second base. Alex Zierden had a base hit to right center that scored Bruette and gave the Hawks the 2-1 lead. Dane Hodkiewicz added some insurance with a base hit to left that scored Zierden and Parker Beyer to make the score 4-1. That's all the Hawks would need as Grant Keszo would shut the door in the bottom of the 8th inning going 1, 2, 3 to retire the side of the Bulldogs. The Hawks got another great pitching performance from Ayden Bystol going 6 1/3 innings giving up 1 run on 4 hits, 6 walks, and had 5 strikeouts. Grant Keszo picked up the win going 1 2/3 innings giving up 0 runs on 0 hits, 0 walks, and had 1 strikeout. Shawano had 10 hits total on Tuesday night and were lead by Jerzy Brocker, Alex Zierden, and Dane Hodkiewicz all with 2 hits in the game. The Hawks finish in 3rd place in the Bay Conference with a 11-7 record and 12-8 overall in the regular season. Shawano will open up the WIAA regionals at Fox Valley Lutheran on Thursday, game time is 4:30pm. Hope to see ya at the park. GO HAWKS!!!