The Dell Rapids baseball team won their third straight game, and fourth out of their last five, after beating Deuel/Hamlin/Castlewood 7-3 at Rickeman Field on Thursday, April 13th.
Dell Rapids scored first in the bottom of the first inning when Austin Ellingson scored on an RBI groundout by Nate McKee to take a 1-0 lead. D/H/C picked up two runs in the top of the seconding inning on an RBI single and throwing error to take a short-lived 2-1 lead. Dell Rapids tied the game on back-to-back hits to start the bottom of the second. Keegan Miller started the inning with a lead-off triple and then scored on a single by Seth Anderson. Anderson scored later in the inning on an RBI single by Josh Roemen, and Dell Rapids regained the lead 3-2 after the second inning. Neither team scored until the top of the fifth when D/H/C tied the game on an RBI fielder’s choice. Dell Rapids would take the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth inning. Roemen scored on an RBI single by Gullickson. Nate McKee drove home Brandon Geraets and Gullickson on a triple to put Dell Rapids ahead 6-3. Dell Rapids got one more run in the sixth inning on an RBI single by McKee.
Gullickson picked up three hits and an RBI in the game. McKee had two hits, including a triple, along with four RBI. Roemen had a hit and RBI, Miller had a triple, and Anderson had a hit and RBI. Trevor Pulscher started the game on the mound pitching four innings giving up two runs, one earned, on five hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Elijah Story picked up the winning in relief pitching three innings giving up one unearned run on three hits while striking out five batters.
Dell Rapids (4-3) will travel to Baltic on Monday, April 17th, at 5:30 p.m.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | ||
| D/H/C | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | |
| Dell Rapids | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | x | 7 | 8 | 2 |