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It is a heavyweight battle scheduled for seven innings Thursday night in Grantsburg.

The Pirates (21-1) will play host to the Panthers (16-3) the winner will be crowned regional champion and be two wins away from the state tournament in Madison.

The Pirates are the best team in Division 3 softball according to the Wisconsin Coaches Association, St. Croix Central is the fifth best team. How the Panthers received a number three seed in the tournament is a bit perplexing.

The Panthers beat the number two seeded Glenwood City Hilltoppers 9-2 on Tuesday evening to advance. Grantsburg got by Cumberland 5-4 to get to the regional final game.

Make sure you’re tuned into the game on 105.7 WXCX for all the action.

It was a good night for the baseball and softball teams.

The Pirate girls won their opening playoff game against the Cumberland Beavers 5-4. The score was 5-1 heading into the top of the seventh, and final, inning.

A couple errors and good hitting by Cumberland led to some major excitement, but in the end, with a runner stranded at third base, Michelle Lund struck out the final batter of the night to preserve a regional championship opportunity.

The Pirates play again on Thursday evening and will take on either St. Croix Central or Glenwood City (surprisingly, their score wasn’t available at the time of this writing 9:45 p.m.). You can hear the game on 105.7 WXCX. Softball playoff bracket.

Congratulations to the Frederic Vikings, they knocked of #2 seeded Shell Lake tonight 4-1 which advances the Vikings to the regional championship game versus Birchwood, who ended Luck’s season. The final score there was 11-1.

The Grantsburg baseball team beat the conference champions tonight on a walk-off two run homerun by Trent Bonneville. Grantsburg won the game 6-4. It was Bonneville’s second dinger of the game. A lot of people were still around the softball field when the crowd erupted over at the baseball field and we could see a couple Pirates rounding the bases and a lot of St. Croix Falls Saints dejectedly walking back to their dugout. Kind of a neat perspective. Baseball playoff bracket.

Looking at the teams in Grantsburg’s (16-2, 9-1) regional, it seems that the Pirates have the number one seed locked up. The next best team in the region is Glenwood City coming in with a 12-6 overall record. That means, even with a loss against Luck (17-1, 10-1) on Friday, the Pirates will still have a relatively easy regional bracket. Of course that’s not what’s on their minds right now. They’d love to get the conference title as well.

Luck is in the next region setting up a potentially great sectional matchup between the two conference rivals. Here’s a link to the projected D3 tournament rankings according to Wissports.net.

Grantsburg defeated a good non-conference foe, Clayton (14-3) 69-50 Tuesday night.