American Legion baseball: Fort Atkinson rallies to beat East Troy 7-3

Braden Hausen scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning as Fort Atkinson’s 19U Senior Legion baseball team rallied to defeat East Troy 7-3 at Jones Park on Monday.

Alex Block doubled to open the Fort fourth and cut the East Troy lead to 2-1 when he came around on Mason Ketterhagen’s sacrifice fly.

Trent Wilson led off the Fort fifth with a single and made it 2-all by scoring on a passed ball. Hausen, who drew a one-out walk before stealing second and reaching third on a passed ball, took advantage of a wild offering to Jordan Zahn to give the Hawks a 3-2 edge.

Braeden Hoth capped Fort’s three-run rally by scoring on a double steal play.

The Hawks, who committed seven errors including one in the infield that allowed East Troy to creep within 4-3 in the top of the sixth, added three insurance runs in the home half of the sixth.

Ketterhagen walked to open the inning and scored on pitcher Seth Lingford’s error. Wilson and winning pitcher Alexis Martinez went on to score runs on separate passed balls for the final margin.

Block started for the Hawks, allowing two unearned runs on three hits with four strikeouts in five innings. Martinez fanned three over two no-hit innings, surrendering an unearned run.

Fort travels to face Janesville on Friday at 7 p.m.

FORT ATKINSON 7, EAST TROY 3East Troy 011 001 0 — 3 3 3

Fort 000 133 x — 7 5 7

Leading hitters — ET: Fox (2B); FA: Wilson 2x3, Block (2B), Hoth (2B), Green (2B).

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — ET: Bayley 4-3-1-1-4-0, Lingford L; 2-2-6-3-5-3; FA: Block 5-3-2-0-2-4, Martinez W; 2-0-1-0-0-3.