WIAA State Baseball Tournament Preview......Division 2

Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 -- 12:44 PM

The 76th Annual Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Baseball State Tournament continues today thru Thursday at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.  Here's a preview of the Division 2 field......

LAST YEAR:  Denmark captured its second straight Division 2 title with a 3-2, 11-inning win over St. Thomas More in the championship final.

Wednesday, June 12

Division 2 Semifinals - 9 a.m.

Game 1 - #2 Kettle Moraine Luth. (25-5) vs. #3 Edgewood (20-6)

Game 2 - #1 Mosinee (24-5) vs. #4 La Crosse Logan (17-10)* 

Thursday, June 13

Division 2 Final - 3:05 p.m.

Game 3 - Winner of Game #1 vs. Winner of Game #2

* Game begins approximately 35 min. following first game of session.

STATE TOURNAMENT ON THE AIR:  The championship finals of all five divisions will be aired live on the WIAA State Television Stations WKOW 27.2, WAOW 9.2, WQOW 18.2 and WXOW 19.2, WVTV 24.1 in Milwaukee and WLUK (FOX)/WCWF(CW) in Green Bay/Appleton. The finals will also be streamed live on the Network stations’ websites. 

THE DIVISION 2 FIELD:  Top-seeded Mosinee will make its seventh appearance at State and its second in the past three seasons. The Indians also qualified back-to-back in 1948 and 1949 and then again in 2017 and 2018. They are in pursuit of their first win in the tournament. This season, the Indians are the champions in the Great Northern Conference. They shutout Xavier 2-0 in the Appleton Sectional final to earn a berth in the tournament field. Kettle Moraine Lutheran was issued the second seed in the bracket. The Chargers are making their first appearance in the State Tournament. They defeated New Berlin West 10-4 in the Big Foot Sectional final to reach the State semifinals. During the regular season, the Chargers were crowned champions of the East Central Conference. Third-seeded Edgewood will be experiencing the State Tournament for the sixth time overall and for the first time since 2011. The Crusaders won the State title in their first-ever appearance in 2004 and then again in 2009. Prior to joining the WIAA, they won six WISAA titles. Those came in 1958, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967 and 1969. They qualify this season with a 10-5 triumph over Waupun in the Portage Sectional final. The Crusaders were runners-up in the West Division of the Badger Conference this season. Fourth-seeded La Crosse Logan returns to the State Tournament for the first time since 2007 and for the eighth time in the program’s history. The Rangers won the Division 1 championship in 2001. They also won the title in 1971, when the tournament featured only one division, and they finished runner-up in 1949. This season, they tied for fourth place in the Mississippi Valley Conference standings and advanced through the Baldwin-Woodville Sectional with a 7-5 win over Medford in the final. 

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