Josh Eidt pitched a 5-hitter and Kris Franzen had four hits to spark the second-seeded Brookfield Bulldogs to a 9-2 win over top-seeded West Bend Saturday afternoon at McCoy Field and forced a winner-take-all game on Sunday in West Bend.
The 7-UP earned double-elimination honors in the playoffs because they finished the regular season in first place in the Land O' Lakes Western Division. The other five playoff teams were all single elimination.
The winner of the Bulldogs-7-UP game on Sunday will represent the Western Division in the Grand Championship Playoffs. The game is set for 1 p.m. at Carl Cuss Field in Regner Park in West Bend.
Andy Heteburg homered in the first inning to give West Bend a 1-0 lead. But Brookfield tied the game in the bottom of the inning when Franzen tripled with one out and scored on Scott Booth's ground out to second.
Brookfield then exploded for four runs with two outs in the third, keyed by Booth's two-run homer and Eric Sobczak's two-run double. Two errors gave the SEven-Up a run in the fourth to cut the lead to 5-2, but then it was all Bulldogs the rest of the day as Eidt slammed the door, finishing with five shutout innings.
Castro doubled in a run to start a three-run fifth inning, then Jason Booth doubled in a run and Josh Lemke singled in another for an 8-2 lead. Castro's RBI-single in the seventh closed out the scoring.
Franzen finished with a 4-for-4 day with a triple and scored four times, while the veteran hitting machine Castro was 3-for-3 with a HBP, two runs and two RBI.
Eidt tossed a complete game, walked one and fanned four and got stronger as the game went on. Greg Basthemer is scheduled to throw on Sunday.
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