Knotted up at 0-0, the Sheboygan A’s scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat the visiting Menasha Macs on Saturday night by a score of 4-0 in Game 2 of the best-of-three Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League championship series.
The Macs won Game 1 in Menasha on Friday night 4-1. The decisive Game 3 will be today at noon in Menasha.
In the eighth, Chad Langley hit a two-run single to make it 2-0.
Sam Mattheis then hit an RBI single to left field to make it 3-0 and a Frankie Pietrantonio single drove in the final run for Sheboygan.
Prior to the championship series the A’s (37-24 overall) had two wins (9-3 and 6-0) and two losses (5-0 and 6-4) against Menasha in the regular season.
The two teams have been battling since 1967, with the A’s holding a 79-57 advantage.