Park pushed across a run in the 12th inning to score a 4-3 at Forest Lake Monday in Suburban East Conference baseball.

The win moves Park to 11-5 and to second place in the conference entering the final week of the regular season.

Park (11-5, 11-6) has games at Roseville (10-4. 10-4) Wednesday and then at winless Irondale (0-14, 0-16) on Friday. The winner of the Park-Roseville game likely finishes second in the SEC this season although there are multiple contenders for the top spots. A high finish in the conference obviously helps the Wolfpack in section seeding.

No. 3 Stillwater leads the SEC with a 13-3 record, followed by Park two games back at 11-5, Roseville at 10-4, No. 5 Mounds View at 10-5 and No. 6 Woodbury at 10-6.

Park 15, Forest Lake 6

Park jumped on visiting Forest Lake hard, building a 12-2 lead after two innings and 15-2 after three to cruise to the Suburban East Conference victory Tuesday, May 10.

Will Smoot homered and doubled and drove in three runs for the Wolfpack. Sam Janski, Josh Hatano and Brady Strand had two RBIs each. Hatano tripled and doubled for the Wolfpack. Park batters ripped Forest Lake pitchers for 14 hits and 14 RBIs.

Strand gave up six hits, four runs, no earned runs, struck out three and walked one in four innings of work on the mound.

Stillwater 16, Park 6

Visiting Stillwater scored six runs in the second and six more in the third inning to cruise to a lopsided win overt the Wolfpack as Park dropped a 16-6 decision to third-ranked Stillwater Wednesday, May 11, falling 16-6.

Park had 10 hits, including doubles by Josh Hatano, Will Smoot, Micha Runion and Blake Johnson.

But Stillwater had three home runs, 17 hits and 16 RBIs in 34 at bats against Wolfpack pitchers Sam Janski and Evan Bearth.

Woodbury 6, Park 3

Sixth-ranked Woodbury scored two runs in the sixth inning and another in the seventh to break a 3-all tie and take a 6-3 decision at Cottage Grove Friday, May 13.

Park batters managed just two hits off Woodbury pitcher Pierrie Gritzmaker – singles by Josh Hatano and Will Smoot. The Royals, on the other hand, had a dozen hits off three Park pitchers.

Woodbury won it with three consecutive two-out doubles in the sixth inning. Park batters flew out three times in the bottom of the sixth, then had two swinging strikeouts and a fly out in the seventh to end the game.

“It was a good game,” said Park head coach David Darr. “We didn’t play poorly. We just didn’t make a couple of plays that we needed to make that gave them some runs.

“Early in the game, first three innings, we had somebody in scoring position every inning and we didn’t get hits. The difference in the game was late in the game they got guys on second and got a couple of base hits and that’s the difference. And we told them, games like this show you how important each pitch and each pitch is. And they just made more plays than us.”

Park 4, Forest Lake 3

In a back-and-forth game at Forest Lake Monday, May 16, Park came up big in the 12th inning to win it.

Jackson Tessman hit a two-out double and scored what turned out to be the game-winner on a single by Josh Hatano. The Wolfpack had two runners picked off base in the inning, however.

Park relief pitcher Brady Strand sent Forest Lake down in order in the bottom of the 12th, getting a fly out, line drive out and ground out to end the game.

Senior catcher Will Smoot banged a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the first inning to get the Wolfpack off to a strong start.

Forest Lake came right back and tied the game in the bottom of the first, then took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the second.

Smoot delivered again with a run-scoring double in the top of the fifth to tie the game at 5-all and giving him three RBIs for the game.

Strand came in to pitch the final two innings of the game and allowed no hits and no runs. Sam Janski pitched four innings and gave up four hits, no runs, walked two and struck out five.