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The Denmark baseball team lost one game all season, a 6-4 late May contest to Seymour. Since, the Vikings ran off 18 straight wins, capping the season with a 4-1 win over Jefferson in the WIAA Division 2 State Championship.

Denmark started the scoring out in the bottom of the first inning with a sac fly by Logan Paplham that scored Hayden Konkol.

In the top of the fourth Jefferson answered with an RBI single by Tanner Pinnow. 

The bottom of the fourth proved to be the deciding half-inning of the game as Denmark plated three runs. An RBI single by Kenny Satori led to his eventual scoring on a wild pitch. Konkol added the last RBI of the game on a single to left.

Brennen Miller got the win for Denmark after pitching six innings and allowing just one earned run on five hits, adding seven strikeouts. Reece Piontek came into the seventh inning for the save, striking out two of the three batters he faced.

For Jefferson, Tyler Butina took the loss after allowing four earned runs in three and two-thirds innings.

With the win, Denmark won the first state title in program history. The Vikings had come up short in both their previous appearances in 2002 and 2005.

Jefferson was searching for its second state championship, but came up short in the sixth appearance.

To get to the state title, Denmark had to go through Rice Lake, who was making its first state appearance since 1982.

Denmark used a five-run third and three-run fourth inning to go up 8-0 before Rice Lake scored in the sixth inning.

Logan Paplham got on base four times with two hits and two walks, batting in two runs for the Vikings. Hayden Konkol added two hits and two RBIs. The Vikings tallied 11 hits as a team.

Rice Lake was led at the plate by Joe Kroeger, who had three of the team's eight hits and batted in a run.

Reece Piontek, who got the save in the title game, got the win by pitching six innings for Denmark. He allowed five hits and one unearned run to go along with his five strikeouts.

For Rice Lake, Matt Juza was the losing pitcher. The Warriors gave up 11 walks in six innings of work as a staff.

Jefferson squared off with second seeded Catholic Memorial in the state semis and rode the arm of Isaiah Hoffman all the way to the championship.

Hoffman pitched a complete game, allowing just two hits and striking out four. He allowed just one earned run to a Catholic Memorial team that had averaged over 7.5 runs per game on the season.

Offensively for the Eagles, Tanner Pinnow batted in two runs on one hit and Tyler Butina added three RBIs off two hits.

Aiden Haney and Anthony Gross recorded the only two hits for Catholic Memorial.

Rory Fox was the losing pitcher for the Crusaders, allowing all seven runs despite striking out 10 batter in six and two-thirds innings.