Jared Donahue pitched 7 2/3 innings of two-hit baseball for the Dell Rapids Mudcats as they defeated Dell Rapids PBR 6-2 on Friday, June 26th, during “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” night as part of the Quarry Days celebration. Donahue gave up two runs on two hits while striking out 17 batters.
PBR jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Blake Harms drove in a Zane Schumacher with an RBI single. Harms came around to score on a Tanner Solberg RBI double. The Mudcats got one of the runs back as Jimmy Bauer scored on an error to make the score 2-1 PBR after the first inning.
The Mudcats tied the game in the bottom of the 3rd after Tom Pischke scored on an RBI single by Nate Henry. Bauer scored the go-ahead run in the fifth inning after scoring on an error. The Mudcats led 3-2 after the fifth inning and went on to add three more runs in the eighth inning. Bauer scored for the third time in the game on an RBI sacrifice-fly by Henry. Kris King scored on an RBI singled by Mark Hauck. Aaron Johnson drove in Travis Peters for the third run of the inning. 
The story of the game was the pitching by Donahue. Donahue faced seven batters in the first inning giving up two earned runs on two hits while walking two batters. He then hit Sheldon Davis with a pitch to lead off the second inning. However, Donahue did not allow another PBR base runner in his next 6 2/3 innings while striking out 15 batters in that stretch to earn the win. Colin Karst pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up no runs on no hits and struck out one.
Nate Alfson pitched a strong game for PBR giving up three runs, but only one earned, on four hits while walking one and striking out two over five innings. Dale Solberg pitched three innings giving up three runs, all earned, on five hits while walking one and striking out one.