Minocqua, WI — Thursday (4/27) was a much different game than Tuesday’s (4/25) run-rule win by Lakeland, but in the end Tomahawk came up just short of their first win of the season by a 6-5 final at Lakeland Union High School. The T-Birds tallied a first-inning run similar to Tuesdays’ game, and it remained 1-0 Lakeland until the third. Brayden Larson, who started the game on the hill for Tomahawk, drove a one-out double to deep left-center, and following a groundout and a walk to Drew Tollefson, Larson tied the game on a T-Bird error. Unlike Tuesday, though, Tomahawk would take the lead in the fourth. Consecutive singles by Cooper Hetzel, Monty Framke and Brody Rigney loaded the bases. Ethan Ihn then drew a bases-loaded walk followed by a T-Bird error left the Hatchets up two and threatening for more. A double-play lineout and a popout quickly ended the threat, however, and the Hatchets led 3-1 going into the fifth. Tyler Jablonski would greet Lakeland reliever Will Fortier with a line-drive home run to left-center to extend the Tomahawk lead to 4-1. The T-Birds would eventually tie the game through six, with a single tally in the bottom of the fifth and two more in the sixth, where Larson’s night came to an end on the mound after five and one-third innings, having given up three hits and only one earned run. Jablonski struck again to lead off the seventh, with a booming home run to deep left-center to reclaim the lead for the Hatchets at 5-4. A passed ball and error opened the door in the bottom of the seventh for Lakeland, however, and both those runners would score, the second with one out to finish off the win for the T-Birds.