Dell Rapids Baseball finished 4th at the State B Baseball championship round on Monday, May 30th, at the Birdcage in Sioux Falls.
Dell Rapids played a tough and exciting game to open up the games at 9:00 a.m. The game went 13 innings, but Dell Rapids lost to the eventual state champs Winner/Colome Royals 4-3. Dell Rapids scored a run in the second inning on a passed ball, and then scored again in top of the seventh on an RBI hit by Eric Klein, but Winner/Colome scratched across two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to force extra innings. Dell Rapids threatened to score in the 10th and 11th innings, and finally broke through with a two-out RBI single by Brett Mogen, but again the Royals tied the game in the bottom of the 12th, and then scored the game-winning run on a single to center in the bottom of the 13th.
Mogen started the game for Dell Rapids pitching seven innings giving up two runs, one earned, on four hits while walking one and striking out 10. Eddie Price took the loss pitching 5 1/3 innings. Price gave up two earned runs without giving up a hit, but walked four batters while striking out five.
Mogen led the offense with four hits in the game and an RBI. Josh Roemen added a double, and Klein had an RBI single.
Dell Rapids then played Dakota Valley in the 3rd/4th place game, but the offense could only string together three hits in the game. Dakota Valley defeated Dell Rapids 5-2. All the runs scored were in the first three innings. Dakota Valley scored a run in the first, three more in the second, and one in the third while Dell Rapids picked up both of their runs in the bottom of the third inning.
Carter Gullickson, Trey Randel, and Mogen all had hits in the game. Matt Gillogly and Gullickson drove in the two runs for Dell Rapids. Trevor Pulscher started the game taking the loss. Pulscher threw 4 1/3 innings giving up five runs, but only one earned, on six hits while walking five and striking out three. Randel closed out the game throwing 2 2/3 innings giving up just one hit while walking two and striking out three.