A nine-run first inning set the tone for Tri-Valley Maroon 14U as they defeated Tri-Valley White 14U by a score of 17-3 in five innings on Saturday, July 10th in an elimination game of the Region 3A tournament in Humboldt.
Maroon scored within the first two batters when Brody Dybvig had an RBI double. Carter Sorenson followed with an RBI double and then later scored on a wild pitch. Nathan Madison had a two run double for the fifth run of the inning. Madison later scored on a passed ball. Alex Wingen had an RBI single, followed by an RBI double by Dybvig, who later scored the ninth run on an error.
White got a run in the bottom of the first inning when Levi Kretzschmar drew a bases-loaded walk to score Denton Bicknase. Maroon got two more runs in the top of the second on a RBI singles by Hunter Foster and Wingen. Parker Hemme had an RBI single for White in the bottom of the second to make the score 11-2. An RBI single by Tristen Bunde for Maroon pushed the lead to 12-2 in the top of the third inning.
White’s final run came in the bottom of the fourth when Bicknase had an RBI single. Maroon scored five more times in the top of the fifth. Foster had a two-run single, Cyrus Kirstein and Foster scored on a passed ball, and Wingen scored on an error.
White was led by Bicknase with two hits and an RBI. Blaine Wieczorek had two hits. Hemme had a hit and RBI. Grant Schlueter had a double. Bracken Sharpe and Benjamin Myhre both had singles. Kretzschmar had an RBI. Gage Egger gave up five earned runs on two hits with three walks. Landon Schenkel pitched four innings allowing nine runs, seven earned, on 14 hits with three walks and seven strikeouts. Bicknase pitched an inning allowing three runs, one earned, on two hits with a walk and strikeout.
Foster had four hits, including a double, and three RBIs. Wingen had four hits and two RBIs. Sorenson had three hits, one a double, and an RBI. Dybvig had two doubles and two RBIs. Aiden Bunde had two hits. Madison had a double and two RBIs. T. Bunde had a hit and an RBI. Noah Eggert had a single, and Landon Jensen had an RBI. T. Bunde pitched three innings allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Cody Lofswold pitched two innings allowing an unearned run on four hits with four strikeouts.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-Valley Maroon 14U | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 1 |
| Tri-Valley White 14U | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 |