Wisconsin’s 2025 high school baseball season ended on Thursday with the WIAA state championships, and not one, not two, but three of four games were decided by one run. Two of them in walk-off fashion.
Here’s a quick look at the sights, sounds, and scores from Wisconsin’s state baseball finals.
DIVISION 1: Muskego 5, Badger 4
Carter Nicolato WALKS IT OFF, @BaseballMuskego are STATE CHAMPIONS in D1. 5-4 after the tying run scored on a bases loaded hit by pitch to set this play up. pic.twitter.com/8leTNw4Dmp
β Zac Bellman βοΈ (@ZacBellman_WNY) June 20, 2025
Congratulations to Muskego, the 2025 WIAA D1 Baseball State Champions! The Warriors downed Badger 5-4 in tonight’s championship to win their program’s second State Title! π
Their only previous title was in 2018, when the WIAA sponsored Summer Baseball. βΎοΈ #wiaabase pic.twitter.com/WLU0w0n5pb
β WIAA State Tournaments (@wiaawistate) June 20, 2025
Muskego trailed 4-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning before Badger walked the bases loaded and hit a batter to tie the game. Carter Nicolato then walked it off with a chopper that got through an infield that was playing in at the front edge of the dirt.
Callen Tomsyk gets Muskego on the board in the first! #wiaabase pic.twitter.com/yteMkGJgF2
β News 9 WAOW (@WAOW) June 19, 2025
βΎ The Badger defense keeps control of the game, stopping a potential big Muskego play with a nice outfield grab!#ChampionshipThursday #WIAABASE pic.twitter.com/EpgEjFyxhK
β WKOW 27 News (@WKOW) June 20, 2025
WARRIORS WIN IT IN THE BOTTOM OF THE 7th!!!! WHAT A GAME!!!! #WeBelieve #mhspride @1WarriorMHS @MuskegoNorwaySc pic.twitter.com/o5obHbJylN
β Todd Irvine (@MNSDIrvine) June 20, 2025
DIVISION 2: New Berlin Eisenhower 5, Seymour 4
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Senior Carter Hollenback earns a lead-off walk, teeing up more heroics from Sam Hirthe. His double made it to the wall, scoring Hollenback from first to end it.
Lions 5, Thunder 4 | FINAL pic.twitter.com/qTfrmbx433
β Prep Baseball Wisconsin (@PrepBaseballWI) June 19, 2025
Like the Division 1 game, the Division 2 championship β featuring the two top-ranked teams in Wisconsin β was also a 5-4 final decided by a seventh inning walk-off. Carter Hollenback scored the game-winner on a double from Sam Hirthe after walking to reach base for the fourth time of the day. Hirthe also had a two-run single to help Eisenhower take a 4-0 lead earlier in the game. Brody Poch went 2-2 with a walk and a run scored for Seymour.
They did it! 2025 State Champions! Letβs Go Ike!!!#letsgoike pic.twitter.com/NebtNxIfnQ
β New Berlin Eisenhower Lions (@IkeLions) June 19, 2025
DIVISION 3: Kenosha St. Joseph 3, Kewaunee 2
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After taking the lead in the top of the seventh. INF/RHP Dominic Santarelli (2026) would close out the seventh, retiring the side in order to secure the win for St. Joseph.
St. Joseph 3 | Kewaunee 2 Final pic.twitter.com/Tf9tNEXKUr
β Prep Baseball Wisconsin (@PrepBaseballWI) June 19, 2025
Zach Rizzo was the star of the game with one run allowed in six innings for St. Joseph. Tim Falk hit the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning, scoring Lukas Martinez from second base. Kewaunee was denied of its first state title but still earned its first ever state championship runner-up finish.
DIVISION 4: Johnson Creek 5, Pacelli 0
Senior Dugg Hartwig of Johnson Creek gets the win, throwing six innings in their D4 Semifinal, allowing no runs in the Bluejays 5-0 shutout of Pacelli. Way to go, Dugg! #wiaabase pic.twitter.com/Frkpg4iVWR
β WIAA State Tournaments (@wiaawistate) June 19, 2025
This was the only game of the day that wasn’t a one-run finish, and Dugg Hartwig is largely to thank/blame. The senior tossed six shoutout innings, and Aiden Smith β who had three RBI β fanned two in the seventh inning to Pacelli to bed.
After INF Tanner Herman (2025, Bryant & Stratton) drove in the first run on an RBI triple to center field. INF Zach Holland (2025) drove in Herman on a triple to right field. π
Still batting Johnson Creek leads 2-0 in the first. pic.twitter.com/a8mSBD4Ob0
β Prep Baseball Wisconsin (@PrepBaseballWI) June 19, 2025
Brady Fincutter makes the backhand catch on the warning track in left and fires it back in to get a HUGE double play for Johnson Creek, keeping Pacelli off the board! π₯ #ChampionshipThursday #WIAAbase pic.twitter.com/V0qcyMfyB6
β WKOW 27 News (@WKOW) June 19, 2025
Smith adds to the Bluejays leads in the top of the seventh on a ground ball to third.
Johnson Creek leads 5-0 heading into the bottom half of the seventh. https://t.co/S6lbNtkPXS pic.twitter.com/gyYB2Ouo67
β Prep Baseball Wisconsin (@PrepBaseballWI) June 19, 2025
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