By JOE VITCENDA | Royall baseball coach
Monday, May 22
Royall took on the New Lisbon Rockets in a contest that would determine the position of the Panthers in the Scenic Bluffs Conference.
The Panthers came home with a 5–0 victory, ending theregular season with a 12–2 record and sharing the conference title with Cashton.
Matt Preuss was on the hill, throwing the entire seven innings of shutout baseball while allowing only three hits and one walk with six strikeouts behind an errorless Royall Panther defense.
The scoring break for the Panthers came in the secondinning, when Arien Nordstrom struck a bases-loaded single to right field, driving in Austin Ziems and Josh Kolodzinski with the first two of five runs. Nordstrom and Jaydyn Enzenbacher led the hitting attack with a pair of singles.
Game on deck
• Regional tournament action