Luther North baseball coach Tom Wiemann didn`t have any trouble ranking his Wildcats` pulsating 2-1 victory Friday over visiting Chicago Catholic League power Fenwick.
”This is one of the biggest victories of my career,” said Wiemann, in his 14th season at the Luther North helm. ”The kids really hung in there and dug it out. It was a fine game to watch.”
Jim Ryle (3-2), a senior right-hander and the No. 2 hurler in Wiemann`s senior-dominated starting lineup, worked the entire seven innings. He limited the Friars (15-4), the Tribune`s No. 2-ranked team, to three singles while striking out four and walking two.
Fenwick`s Tony Zielonka was the loser, giving up six hits, striking out seven and walking only one in his route-going effort.
Luther North got to Zielonka for a run in the first inning on third baseman John Gallo`s RBI single.
That scored second baseman Nick Potter, who had singled and advanced to second on a balk.
Fenwick forged a 1-1 deadlock in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Dan Burke that scored Larry Glozier, who had reached first on an error, taken second on a balk and gone to third on a wild pitch.
Potter led off the Luther half of the fifth with a double and scored the winning run on a throwing error.
