GRAND CHUTE — The Potosi/Cassville baseball team will play for the WIAA Division 4 state championship Thursday morning.

The No. 2 seed Chieftains outlasted No. 3 Reedsville in a marathon, drama-filled 11-inning state semifinal contest 2–1 at Fox Cities Stadium Tuesday morning.

Potosi/Cassville senior third baseman Ben Infield scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning when freshman Lane Schaefer reached on a two-out error by Reedsville second baseman Landon Martz.

Infield led off the inning with a sharp single through the left side and advanced to second on a ground out by Reid Weber. He then moved over to third on a ground out to second base by junior River Sahr.

The Panthers (19–8) then intentionally walked senior Logan Rausch to face the freshman Schaefer.

Schaefer chopped a grounder to the right of Martz, who bobbled the ball trying to rush to get a throw to second base for an inning-ending force out. Rausch was safer at second and Infield easily scored the winning run from third.

Weber (5–3) earned the win with four innings of hitless relief, striking out two and walking two.

PC starter senior Kolton Vogelsberg was dialed in all day before departing after reaching the 100-pitch limit with seven complete innings. He allowed just two hits and one unearned run in the top of the sixth on an error, a sac bunt and a ground out to second base.

Potosi/Cassville (20–7) will face either No. 1 Marshfield Columbus Catholic (22–6) or No. 4 Marathon (16–7) in the D4 state championship game Thursday at 9:05 a.m. at Fox Cities Stadium.

FOR MORE COVERAGE of Potosi/Cassville at state pick up next week’s The Platteville Journal or the Grant County Herald Independent.