Brian Bell | Marinette EagleHerald Bark River’s Adrian Mercier throws a pitch during the first game of Tuesday's doubleheader against Menominee at Spies Field.

MENOMINEE — After losing its last two games and taking a week off of competitive baseball, the Menominee Red Wave got back on the winning track with two wins over Bark River-Harris on Tuesday night.

Both games were pitcher’s duels throughout, with Menominee claiming a 4-0 lead in Game 1 thanks to a big fifth inning and winning the second game on a walkoff base hit from Hunter Goldschmidt to get a 3-2 victory.

“We were out on our front foot a lot and had some trouble with patience at the plate,” Menominee coach John Lauzer said. “We came through when we needed it, but we need to be a little better getting things going earlier in the game like we did when we started the year.”

In the top of the second inning in Game 2, BR-H scored two runs in the first inning when Max Hall and Adrian Mercier were hit by pitches to start the inning. Joe Javurek grounded into a fielder’s choice to get the runner out going to second, but that left runners at first and third with one out. An RBI-double from Tyler Racicot scored Hall and a fielder’s choice from Aidan Johnson scored Javurek as the Bucs’ took a 2-0 advantage.

The Red Wave got one run back in the bottom of the inning when Braedon McMahon skied a double to left-center and came around to score on Billy Bailey’s RBI-single, and the score stayed the same until Menominee stepped to the plate in the bottom of the sixth.

Trailing 2-1, the inning started out for Menominee with a popout to the catcher, but Keagan Monroe started things off with a single for his first hit of the game.

With Monroe on first and McMahon at the plate, Lauzer put the hit-and-run on and McMahon delivered with a hit to right field and allowed Monroe to get all the way to third. On the play, the right fielder bobbled the ball with Monroe standing on third and he easily scored from there to tie the game at 2.

Buddy Beyer and Keaton Uecke then singled to load the bases, but McMahon was cut-down at home on a fielder’s choice to keep the bases loaded with two outs, bringing Goldschmidt to the dish.

On the first pitch of the at-bat, Goldschmidt hit a slow dribbler to the shortstop that would have ended the inning, but Uecke made a heads-up play and stood in front of the ball to block the shortstop’s vision and distract him. When Uecke finally moved, the shortstop misplayed the ball and that allowed Beyer to score from third. After the shortstop regained control of the ball and threw to first, Goldschmidt beat it out without an issue as the Red Wave completed the sweep.

“We told Keaton after the game that was a very smart play on his part,” Lauzer said.

Goldschmidt threw the first five innings for Menominee and allowed two runs on three hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Andrew Schroeder, who hasn’t pitched in nearly two weeks after getting hit in the side with a pitch during a game, came in for the sixth inning and threw just seven pitches, allowing no hits, no runs, no walks and striking out one.

In the first game, Dante Sartorelli had his fastball working for him and BR-H had troubles putting the ball where the Menominee fielders were not as he allowed just one hit and had 10 punchouts over six innings to pick up the win. All of his 93 pitches he threw were fastballs.

At the plate, Menominee scored a run in the first inning when Monroe singled after BR-H third baseman Wyatt Riley made back-to-back highlight plays at the hot-corner for two quick outs. Monroe stole second and then scored on an overthrow to first.

There was no action in the ballgame then until the bottom of the fifth when Menominee plated three runs to extend the lead to 4-0 and Sartorelli shut down the Bucs’ bats once again to close out the game.

Menominee is now 12-2 on the season and will host Ashwaubenon Saturday at noon at Spies Field. Bark River hosts Iron Mountain tonight.