RHINELANDER, Wis. — It took the second tiebreaker to knock them out from winning the tournament title, but the Post 44 Blues American Legion baseball team still had an excellent weekend at the Rhinelander Rebel Invitational that finished Sunday in this northern Wisconsin town.

The Blues lost 8-4 on the final day to the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Springs Legion team, named for the Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs Academy.

Post 44 posted a 3-1 record at the three-day event to tie for the top spot based on record, but lost the second tiebreaker of overall runs scored, according to Blues manager Mark Pantti in an email detailing Sunday’s game.

“(This was a) great weekend for our young squad,” Pantti said of his team representing the Marquette Legion post and includes players from Marquette Senior, Superior Central, Westwood and Gladstone high schools.

On Friday, Post 44 defeated host Rhinelander 8-2, while on Saturday, the Blues pulled off a walk-off 6-5 win over Schofield D.C. Everest and a 12-7 triumph over Ironwood.

The Blues play Ironwood again in their next games in a 5 p.m. Friday doubleheader at home.

Here are details from Sunday’s game, along with the victory over Rhinelander:

Fond du Lac 8, Blues 4

On Sunday, Springs jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the middle of the third inning before the Blues got on the board, Post 44 scoring once in the bottom of the third, another run in the fifth and two more in the sixth.

Isaac Rondeau absorbed the pitching loss, starting and going four innings as he allowed seven runs — six earned — on nine hits and two walks as he struck out three.

Jonas Snapp followed on the mound, throwing one inning with an earned run allowed on one hit and two walks as he fanned one. Easton Jezewski went the final two innings, not allowing a run off of one hit and one walk as he K’d two.

The Wisconsin team had an RBI single in the first inning and two more in the second, while Springs’ Max Sadownikow blasted a two-run homer in the third.

Desmond Gleason had two of the Blues’ four hits, while Jezewski had the team’s lone extra-base hit, a double. Evan Brown had a hit and two RBIs, while Gleason had an RBI.

Brown and teammate Cooper Sanville each had a stolen base.

Blues 8, Rhinelander 2

On Friday, Post 44 was stymied for six innings, trailing 2-0, but busted loose in a huge way in the top of the seventh and final inning to grab this win.

The Blues’ Jaykob Dahm, a Superior Central product, was masterful on the mound, going 6 2/3 innings and allowing two earned runs on three hits with two walks and 11 strikeouts.

But he still needed his team’s big rally in the seventh to not be tagged with the loss. Fittingly, he started the scoring in that rally by drawing a bases-loaded walk to get an RBI, while teammate Jacob Geller was also walked to bring in another run and tie the game.

After an error scored one, Sanville cleared the bases in a bases-loaded situation with a single, even bringing himself home on the play, while another error brought one more run in.

Wes Robinson went 2 for 4, the lone Post 44 batter with more than one of his team’s eight hits. Jezewski had the only extra-base hit, a double, while Sanville finished with three RBIs as he and Gleason each drew two walks.

Story contents based on emails received from Post 44 Blues manager Mark Pantti. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.