The Dell Rapids baseball team belted out three home runs and had sixteen hits in an 18-2 win over Oldham-Ramona-Rutland on Thursday, April 27th, in Madison. Five different players had multi-hit games for Dell Rapids.
Matt Gillogly put Dell Rapids on the board early with a three-run home run in the top of the first. Seth Anderson knocked in two runs with a two-run single, and Eddie Price hit a solo home run to give Dell Rapids an early 6-0 lead after the top of the first inning. Neither team scored until the top of the fourth inning when Dell Rapids scored 12 times in the inning. Josh Roemen scored on a wild pitch. Gillogly had an RBI double. Ellingson had a two-run single to make the game 10-0. Anderson followed with an RBI double, and Keegan Miller also had an RBI double. Roemen drove in two more runs with a two-run single to push the lead to 14-0. Gillogly added another RBI on a fielder’s choice ground out, and Ellingson finished the scoring with a three-run home run. O-R-R pushed across a couple of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, but the game was called on the 10-run rule.
Ellingson had three hits, one of them a home run, and drove in five runs. Anderson also had three hits, one of them a double, and had three RBIs. Gillogly had a double and home run driving in five runs. Price also had a double and home run with an RBI. Roemen had two hits, including a triple with two RBIs. Jake Steineke, JD Holm, Nate McKee, and Miller also had hits. Miller also had an RBI. Ellingson pitched 4 1/3 innings giving up two earned runs on one hit while walking eight and striking out six. Adrian Juba finished the final 2/3 of an inning giving up no runs on no hits with one walk.
Dell Rapids has now won three games in a row and has improved their record to 8-4 on the season. Dell Rapids will host Redfield/Hitchcock/Tulare/Doland/Northwestern on Wednesday, May 3rd, at Rickeman Field. The varsity game will start at 5:30 p.m. and will be webcast on Big Sioux Media.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | ||
| Dell Rapids | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | x | x | 18 | 16 | 1 | |
| O-R-R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | x | x | 2 | 1 | 3 |