Jess Weidner raced home on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning Friday, giving North Clay a 2-1 victory over St. Anthony in a match-up of two of the best baseball teams in the area.

A single, error and sacrifice bunt put Cardinal runners on second and third with just one out. After a short fly out for the second out, Weidner sprinted home with the walk-off run when St. Anthony’s Brody Niebrugge uncorked a wild pitch.

North Clay’s Donnie Zimmerman was dominant on the mound. He gave up a lead-off double to Angela Mendella, the first batter of the game, but then retired the next 18 hitters and held a 1-0 lead going to the seventh.

The Bulldogs then managed to tie the game without getting a hit. Beau Adams drew a lead-off walk and advanced to third base after two ground outs. With Eli Levitt at the plate, a Zimmerman pitch got by his catcher for a passed ball, allowing Adams to scamper home with the tying run.

The Cardinals had taken a 1-0 lead in the fifth by scoring an unearned run. With two outs, two batters were hit by a pitch and the run scored on an error.

Zimmerman went all eight innings, allowing just the one hit and one unearned run. He walked two and struck out five, while throwing 77 pitches.

Levitt started for the Bulldogs and turned in six strong innings. He gave up six hits and one unearned run, while walking two and striking out six. Niebrugge relieved in the seventh and took the loss.

The Bulldogs had their five-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 8-3 on the season. They will return home Monday to face Ramsey.

It was a good old-fashioned pitcher’s duel.

St. Anthony’s Colton Fearday and Windsor/Stew-Stras’ Gavan Wernsing hooked up in a gem Tuesday afternoon. Both hurlers allowed just three hits and both reached double digits in strikeouts.

And when the final was recorded, it was Fearday and the Bulldogs that came out on top.

The St. Anthony left-hander struck out seven and walked four, but didn’t allow a base runner to cross the plate, helping the Bulldogs post a 2-0 victory at home.

The Hatchets had two of their hits in the second inning and their final single in the sixth. Their best scoring chance came in the second. After the two singles, a walk loaded the bases with two outs. But Fearday retired Rhett Rincker on a pop up to end the threat.

Wernsing, the hard-throwing right-hander, was also tough. He struck out 11 and walked just one. But he did allow two runs to score.

The first came in the opening inning, but was unearned. Angelo Mendella led off with a double. Colton Fearday reached on an error and Brody Niebrugge walked to load the bases. Will Hoene then drove in the run with a sacrifice fly.

It stayed 1-0 until the bottom of the sixth. Niebrugge lined a one-out double, stole third and scored on a ground ball by Hoene.

St. Anthony’s other hit was a one-out single by Brady Hatton in the second.

The Bulldogs improved to 7-2 on the season. They will play Thursday at Neoga.

Beau Adams and Brody Niebrugge drove in the go-ahead runs and Brady Hatton came in to record the final two outs, helping the St. Anthony Bulldogs post a 5-3 win Thursday at Neoga.

The host Indians jumped out to a 2-0 lead on first-inning RBI singles by Ryan Koester and Bryar Hennesey.

But the Bulldogs started their comeback in the third.

Brock Jansen and Will Hoene walked and Adams singled to load the bases with one out. Niebrugge’s ground ball brought home the first run and Colton Fearday singled to tie the game at 2-2.

St. Anthony took the lead in the fourth. Hatton reached on an error with one out and then Jansen singled and Angelo Mendella walked to load the bases again. Adams and Niebrugge then followed with RBI singles to put the Bulldogs on top to stay, 4-2.

SAHS added its final run in the fifth when Eli Levitt ripped a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Hatton.

The Indians trimmed the gap to 5-3 when Luke Rowack delivered a run-scoring single in the bottom of the fifth.

Neoga then threatened in the seventh. Brady Reynolds led off with a base hit and Rowack walked with one out. Hatton then came on in relief and retired the next two batters on a fly ball and a pop up to preserve the victory and earn the save.

Eli Link pitched the first four innings for the Bulldogs and got the win. He allowed three hits and two unearned runs, while striking out three. He didn’t walk a batter. Jansen pitched the fifth and Brock Fearday went 1.1 innings before Hatton came on to close out the game.

The Bulldogs improved to 8-2 on the season. They will return to action Monday at home against Ramsey.

The St. Anthony Bulldogs banged out 16 hits and used a big seven-run inning to pull away and post a 12-1, six-inning victory Friday at Dieterich.

Colton Fearday, Brody Niebrugge, Will Hoene and Eli Levitt each collected three hits, helping the Bulldogs notch their sixth win of the fall season.

St. Anthony jumped on top early, scoring two first-inning runs. Beau Adams was hit by a pitch and then scored on a double by Colton Fearday. An error allowed the second run to score.

The Maroons scored their lone run in the bottom of the first. Noah Dill had a lead-off single and later scored on an RBI single by Braden Shadle.

The Bulldogs then scored two runs in the second and added another tally in the third to build the lead to 5-1. It stayed that way until the sixth.

St. Anthony had six hits in the frame and also took advantage of a pair of errors to score three unearned runs and a wild pitch accounted for another. Colton Fearday had two hits in the inning, including an RBI single. Brock Jansen also drove in a run with a base hit and Adams added a run-scoring triple.

Niebrugge pitched five strong innings to get the win. He allowed just three hits and one unearned run in five innings of work. He struck out nine and walked two.

The Bulldogs improved to 6-2. They will return to action Thursday with a road game at Neoga.