After one inning, Tomah and Black River Falls were on pace to take a 63-63 tie into extra innings.
That was before Tomah’s Tyler Felber stepped to the mound and established some order.
Felber allowed just one run over the final six innings and pitched the Timberwolves to an 11-10 non-conference baseball victory Thursday at Senz Field.
Tomah snapped a five-game losing streak and improved its overall record to 3-8. The Timberwolves have hit the double digits in the run column in all three of their victories.
Black River Falls fell to 2-10.
Tomah coach Matt Dutton was proud of his team for storming back from a 9-0 deficit.
“When we got behind, I told them we could do one of two things,” Dutton said. “We could come out and lose by 10 runs after five innings, or we can battle back. They chose to battle back. This is the type of baseball I want to bring to this community.”
Felber brought order to a wild matchup in which both teams scored nine runs in their halves of the first inning. Although Felber walked eight batters, he struck out five and didn’t give up a run over the final four innings.
“For Tyler to come back the way he did after sitting out a couple of games and throw strikes was outstanding,” Dutton said. “The leadership he showed out there was tremendous.”
Although nobody would have predicted it at the time, Eric Kirchner delivered the game-winning RBI in the third inning, when his single brought home Aaron Gasser. Neither team scored over the final four innings.
Black River Falls got an equally gutsy performance from pitcher Tyler Thundercloud, who was battered in the first inning but somehow pitched a complete game. Thundercloud struck out three and walked seven.
The Timberwolves have Mississippi Valley Conference home games Thursday against Onalaska and Friday against Holmen. The latter will pick up a suspended game from April 17 with Tomah leading, 7-6, with two outs in the bottom of the second.

