Dell Rapids kept their perfect season going with two more wins on Sunday, April 29th at Rickeman Field in Dell Rapids. Dell Rapids took two games from Flandreau in the Sunday double-header by scores of 14-2 and 17-0.
Flandreau picked up two runs in the top of the first inning in the first game off Dell Rapids starter Elijah Story. The lead would be short lived as Dell Rapids scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning to tie the game 2-2 after two innings. Dell Rapids then scored 11 times in the bottom of the third before adding one more in the bottom of the fourth. Flandreau was held scoreless after the first inning and the game ended on the 10-run rule in the fifth inning.
Story pitched four of the five innings giving up two runs, both earned, on five hits while striking out six batters and walking one. Logan Stone pitched the final inning striking out two batters.
Three Dell Rapids hitters had a multi-hit game. Eddie Price collected three hits. Matt Gillogly had two hits and two RBIs. Jeffrey Schuch also had two hits and an RBI. Carter Gullickson, Keegan Miller, Tate Kolbeck, and Story all had one hit in the game. Gullickson and Kolbeck both had two RBIs each.
The Dell Rapids offense kept rolling in the second game. They scored four times in the top of the first, five more times in the second inning, and eight runs in the third inning for their 17 runs. Flandreau was held scoreless in the game and was only able to get just two hits before the game was ended on the 15-run rule in the third inning.
Price pitched the first two innings of the game. He did not allow a hit and struck out five batters, but also walked five batters. Stone pitched the final inning again giving up no runs on two hits.
Eleven different Dell Rapids hitters had a hit in the game. Story had two hits and three RBIs. Jay Holm, Thane Hilmoe, Gabe Skonseng, Matt Gillogly, Nick Palmer, Jake Steineke, Brandon Geraets, Price, Stone, and Schuch all had hits. Hilmoe and Stone had two RBIs each. Gillogly, Palmer, Miller, Steineke, Ty Wood, and Kolbeck all had an RBI.
Dell Rapids (8-0) will host Deubrook/Deuel on Thursday, May 3rd starting at 6:00 p.m. The JV team will host Madison on Tuesday, May 1st.