The fall baseball season didn’t end like they hoped, but the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes went down battling.

Trailing by three runs heading to the bottom of the seventh inning, the Shoes scored twice and had the bases loaded before the final out was recorded.

As a result, Windsor/Stew-Stras hung on for a 6-5 victory, snapping the Shoes seven-game winning streak.

With one out in the seventh, Logan Roepke, Dylan Pruemer and Caleb Siemer drew back-to-back-to-back walks to load the bases. Cade Buehnerkemper’s fly ball drove in one run. Luke Koester then walked to re-load the bases and Sam Bushur’s ground ball was booted for an error, allowing the second run to score. Mitch Althoff then grounded out to end the threat and the game.

The Shoes played from behind the entire game. The Hatchets combined four hits and a walk to tally four times in the opening inning.

But T-Town battled back. They scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first and then added single tallies in the third and sixth to close to within 4-3.

In the third, Bushur was hit by a pitch to start the inning and Mitch Althoff followed with an RBI triple. Kayden Althoff then walked, but WSS starting pitcher Gavin Wernsing struck out the next three batters to end the inning.

In the sixth, Buehnerkemper got a one-out single, went to second on a ground out and scored on a base hit by Bushur.

The Hatchets then tacked on two runs in the top of the seventh.

Wernsing went the first three innings to get the win. Derek Konkel pitched the first six innings for THS and took the loss. He allowed nine hits and five runs, while striking out four and walking two. Kayden Althoff got the final three outs in the seventh.

The Shoes ended the season strong. They won 10 of their final 12 games to finish with a 13-9 record. Their 2022 spring season will open March 15 at home against Neoga.