Wildlife Refugee Cabins’ Reegan Anderson rocks and fires from the pitcher's circle on Wednesday in a game against Wesa Insurance in Portage Lake Little League minors softball action in Chassell. (Eddie O’Neill/For the Gazette)

CHASSELL — The girls from the Wesa Insurance minors softball team got back on the winning track Wednesday with an 8-4 victory over Wildlife Refuge Camp.

Wesa Insurance coach Scott Wesa liked his girls attention to detail with this win.

“They hustled on the base paths and in the field and took advantage of opportunities when they could,” he said. “It was a good win for these girls.”

These two rivals knotted the score at two after the first inning. In the second frame, Wesa Insurance knocked in two and never looked back. Crossing home that inning were Malin Aho and Lexi Nordstrom. It was Aho’s second run scored. She went on to be run number five in the third after getting a base hit to the left side of the field.

Nordstrom followed as run number six, and Kinsey Pietila was tally number eight for Wesa after she poked a base hit past the infield.

After three, Wesa led 7-2. In the fourth, Pietila again earned her way to first with a base rap and scored her second run of the game and Wesa’s eighth.

While Wildlife mounted a late-inning rally, it was not enough. With just one out Ayla Anderson and Reegan Anderson got base hits and scored, but that is as good as it got. Outs by Laina Fountaine and Emeris Anderson ended the game.

GRANDBRIDGE PROPERTIES 11, DTA CONTRACTING 0

GrandBridge Properties continued their winning ways on Wednesday with an 11-0 shutout of DTA Contracting.

GrandBridge coach Trent Huotari summed up the win as a three-fold attack.

“The keys to victory tonight were good at-bats, pitching and fielding,” he said.

Good at-bats equated to a five-run first inning for the girls in grey off of seven hits. In short the GrandBridge nine came to hit. Brynlee Hanner led the inning off with a base hit and a run scored. In succession came Marabelle Hermann, Ellington Markham and Braelyn Huotori. Emy Keteri’s hit to left field was the inning-ending run number five.

Then came strong pitching from GrandBridge’s Gianatte Paoli, who kept DTA off the bases. When DTA did connect with the ball, they were put out by GrandBridge’s tough infield. The best DTA could do was to get just one runner to third, and that was in the first.

Meanwhile the GrandBridge bats stayed hot as they went through the lineup. Hanner, Hermann and Markham all had hits and scored again in the second.

Hanner led the team with a third run tallied in the third. She was followed by Sadie Larson for run number 10, and Olivia Kangas crossed home that inning as well for Grandbridge’s 11th run. DTA went down swinging in the fourth.