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Mudcats Notch 10th Win in a Row

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The Dell Rapids Mudcats won their 10th game in a row with a 17-6, seven-inning win over the Humboldt/Hartford Gamecocks at home on Sunday, June 20th.

The Mudcats scored five runs in the first three innings, but then used a five-run fifth inning and a seven-run sixth inning to build a big enough lead to have the game called in the seventh inning on the 10-run rule.

Mark Abrahamson collected three hits, two of those doubles.  Dalton Lehnen also had three hits, including one double.  Travis Peters had two hits.  Ty Hoglund had a double, and Chad Hunt and Kris Regas both had singles.

Winning pitcher was Hoglund with three innings of middle relief. Dalton Allen pitched two innings as the starter, and Hunt tossed the final two innings.

PBR Drops Last Two League Games

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Dell Rapids PBR dropped their last two Cornbelt League games.  PBR fell to the Canova Gang, 15-3, on Thursday, June 17th.  They then lost to the Flandreau Cardinals, 5-1, on Sunday, June 20th.

Canova led from start to finish against PBR on Thursday.  The Gang scored one run in the top of the first and four more in the top of the second for a 5-0 lead.  PBR cut the lead to 5-2 in the bottom of the second on RBI singles by Jake Rechtenbaugh and Brandon Geraets.  Canova, however, added four more runs in the top of the third for a 9-2 lead.  PBR’s last run came in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Weston Hanson.  The Gang scored two more in the fifth and four in the seventh that gave them the seven-inning win.

Carter Gullickson had three hits, two of them doubles.  Hanson had two hits and an RBI.  Rechtenbaugh and Geraets both finished with a single and RBI.  Tanner Solberg had a double, and Beau Behrend also had a hit.  Solberg pitched five innings allowing 11 runs, eight earned, on 12 hits with five walks and two strikeouts.  Rechtenbaugh pitched two innings giving up for runs, three earned, on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

Flandreau scored five unanswered runs and led 5-0 heading into the bottom of the seventh on Sunday.  Solberg had an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh for PBR’s lone run of the game as they were held to just four total hits.

Solberg had a hit and RBI.  Hanson, Tim Wilhelmsen, and Behrend all had singles as well.  David Kirby pitched six innings allowing four runs, three earned, on six hits with five walks and 13 strikeouts.  Dale Solberg pitched three innings allowing an earned run on three hits with one strikeout.

Dell Rapids 14U Wins Defensive Battle

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Dell Rapids 14U got a run in the bottom of the first, and one more for good measure in the bottom of the sixth for a 2-0 win over Hills-Beaver Creek Blue 14U on Friday, June 18th at Volunteer Field in Dell Rapids.

Lincoln Fersdahl drove home the first run on an RBI single in the bottom of the first inning.  The other run came on an RBI double by Fersdahl in the bottom of the sixth.  The two teams combined for a total of just five hits.

Fersdahl had two of the three hits for Dell Rapids and both RBIs.  Cole Ruesink had the other a hit, a double in the sixth inning.

Ruesink pitched the first three innings allowing just one hit while striking out eight batters.  Fersdahl pitched the final four innings allowing a hit and two walks while striking out 11.

Dell Rapids will travel to Humboldt to play West Central 14U Gold on Tuesday, June 22nd.

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Dell Rapids 16U Wins Fifth Straight

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Once the offense got going for Dell Rapids, it could not be stopped as Dell Rapids took a 13-4 victory over Volga on the road on Thursday, June 17th. 

Dell Rapids didn’t score until the top of the third, but they scored four times in that inning, and then scored at least one run in every subsequent inning while never trailing in the win.

Braden Fersdahl had two doubles and two RBIs.  Dylan Mathis had two hits, one a double, with two RBIs.  Will Jaton also had two hits, including a double.  CJ Smith had a double and two RBIs.  Kade Kemer had a hit and an RBI.  Ethan Kringen had a double, and Sutton Williams had a single.  Joe Rechtenbaugh and Evan Nelson both had an RBI in the game.

Smith pitched four innings allowing two runs, both unearned, on one hit with one walk and one strikeout.  Fersdahl pitched three innings allowing two earned runs on a hit with six walks.

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Dell Rapids Legion Drops Double-header, but Wins Next Game

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The Dell Rapids Legion team finished a stretch of five games in three days with a double-header against Sioux Falls Post 15 Black on Wednesday, June 16th and then a trip to Volga on Thursday, June 17th.

Sioux Falls handed Dell Rapids two losses as they won the first game 14-3 and the second game 21-12.  Sioux Falls had a five-run third and eight-run fifth inning in the first game to get the win.

In the first game, Noah Swartwout had two hits, including a double, with two RBI.  Kaeden Eastman had a hit and RBI.  Jake Steineke, Brady Larson, Caleb Kittleson, and Connor Libis all had hits.  Kittleson pitched 4 1/3 innings allowing 11 runs, 10 earned, on 13 hits with two walks and two strikeouts.  Eastman pitched 2/3 of an inning allowing three earned runs on a hit with three walks and two strikeouts.

Ashaun Roach-Valandra had three hits, including a triple, and two RBIs in the second game.  Riley Peter finished with two hits and three RBIs.  Swartwout and Steineke each had two hits, and each with a double, and an RBI.  Bryce Sommerfeld had two hits, and Landon Ruesink and Eastman both had a hit.  Swartwout pitched 2 1/3 innings allowing seven runs, six earned, on seven hits with one walk and three strikeouts.  Libis pitched 1/3 of an inning allowing five earned runs on four hits with three walks and a strikeout.  Sommerfeld pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up nine runs, eight earned, on six hits with two walks and five strikeouts.

Dell Rapids bounced back the next night with a 12-8 eight over Volga on the road.  After Volga tied the game late in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dell Rapids scored five times in the top of the seventh to earn the victory.

Ruesink finished with three hits, one a triple, and three RBIs.  Eastman had two hits and two RBIs.  Larson also had two hits and an RBI.  Kittleson had a home run and two RBIs.  Andrew Van Dam had a double and two RBIs.  Sommerfeld had a hit and RBI.  Roach-Valandra had a hit, and Josh Deknikker had an RBI.  Ruesink pitched five innings allowing four runs, three earned on five hits with four walks and nine strikeouts.  Roach-Valandra pitched two innings and gave up four earned runs on two hits with five walks and a strikeout.

Mudcats Win Two More

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The Dell Rapids Mudcats continued their winning streak with two more wins recently.  Dell Rapids defeated Canova 14-1 in a make-up game on Tuesday, June 15th and then got a win over Flandreau 10-2 on Thursday, June 17th.

The Mudcats used an eight-run third inning and a four-run fifth inning on their way to handing Canova their first loss of the season.

Mark Abrahamson and Chad Hunt both had three hits in the game.  Abrahamson had two doubles and two RBIs.  Hunt finished with three singles and an RBI.  Josh Roemen had two hits, including a double, with two RBIs.  Jimmy Bauer had two hits and two RBIs.  Grant Olson and Dalton Allen both had a hit and two RBIs.  Kris Regas pitched six innings allowing one run on five hits with nine strikeouts.  John Spaeth pitched one inning and allowed one hit and had one strikeout.

Dell Rapids followed that win with a 10-2 victory on Thursday.  The Mudcats scored three times in the first inning and had another three-run inning in the top of the eighth.

Dalton Lehnen had two home runs and three RBIs in the contest.  Travis Peters had two doubles.  Trevor Freudenthal and Olson both had two hits and two RBIs.  Nate Henry finished with two hits and an RBI.  Abrahamson had a hit with two RBIs.  Ty Hoglund had a home run.  Regas also had a hit.  Lehnen pitched six innings allowing four hits and had 12 strikeouts to get the win.  Regas pitched an inning allowing a hit and three strikeouts.  Abrahamson pitched two innings and gave up two runs on no hits with two strikeouts.

Dell Rapids Legion Scores 38 Runs in Two Wins over Flandreau

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Photo taken and used with permission by Tammy Chamley

The Dell Rapids Legion baseball team traveled to Flandreau for a double-header and scored 38 runs in two wins on Tuesday, June 15th.  Dell Rapids won the first game 24-6 and then won the second game 14-1.

Both teams scored three runs in the first inning of the first game.  Flandreau then scored a run in the bottom of the second for a short-lived 4-3 lead.  Dell Rapids then scored three runs in the third, four more in the fourth, and then posted a whopping 14 runs in the fifth resulting in the 10-run rule win in five innings.

Caleb Kittleson had four hits, two doubles, and four RBIs.  Brady Larson had four hits, one double, and three RBIs.  Noah Swartwout had three hits and four RBIs.  Bryce Sommerfeld had two hits and two RBIs.  Riley Peter had a double and two RBIs.  Jake Steineke and Ashaun Roach-Valandra had a hit and RBI.  Kaeden Eastman also had a hit. 

Larson pitched five innings allowing six runs, four earned, on 10 hits with two walks and five strikeouts.

Dell Rapids continued to light up the scoreboard in the second game.  They scored five runs in the first inning and eight in the second inning on their way to a 14-1 win in the second game. 

Kittleson had two more hits, one a double, with two RBIs.  Larson had two hits, one a triple, and an RBI.  Steineke and Roach-Valandra both had a double with three RBIs.  Eastman had two hits.  Swartwout and Andrew Van Dam both had singles.  Zeb Schumaker had an RBI. 

Van Dam pitched five innings allowing one run, unearned, on three hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.

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Dell Rapids 14U Fifth Inning Surge Seals Win

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The Dell Rapids 14U team scored five runs in the first two innings and then six more runs in the fifth inning to earn an 11-3 win over Hamlin at home on Tuesday, June 15th.

Hamlin did get a run in the top of the first inning, but Dell Rapids took the lead for good in the bottom of the first inning.  Lincoln Fersdahl drove home two run for a 2-1 lead.  Dell Rapids added three runs in the bottom of the second on an RBI sacrifice fly by Cole Ruesink, an RBI single by Quinn Carr, and an RBI single by Brandon Schmidt to push the lead to 5-1.

Hamlin scored two times in the top of the fourth inning to cut the lead to 5-3, and the scored remained the same until the bottom of the fifth inning.  The first seven batters for Dell Rapids reached base safely.  Noah Larson and Carson Crosby had RBI singles.  Larson later scored on an error.  Carson Maeschen scored on a passed ball, and Carr drove home two with a double.

Carr finished with three hits, one a double, with three RBIs.  Fersdahl had a single with two RBIs.  Ruesink, Schmidt, Larson, and Crosby all had a single and an RBI.  Logan Donovan and Maeschen also had hits.

Carr pitched two innings allowing one earned run with two walks and five strikeouts.  Ruesink pitched three innings allowing two runs, both unearned, on two hits with two walks and six strikeouts.  Fersdahl pitched two innings giving up one hit and one walk with two strikeouts.

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Dell Rapids 14U Falls to Dynamite

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Coming off a first place silver bracket tournament win in Mitchell, the Dell Rapids 14U softball team had another game on Monday, June 14th.  Team Dynamite’s early lead helped them hold off Dell Rapids 10-7.

Dynamite scored a run in the top of the inning.  Dell Rapids tied the game with a run in the bottom of the inning on an RBI ground out by Brynlee Kriens.  Dynamite scored two runs in the top of the second and another run in the top of the third.  Dynamite lead 4-1 after three innings.

Dell Rapids cut the lead in half, 4-2, with a run in the bottom of the fourth inning on an RBI double by Makaylah O’Meara.  Both teams had big innings in the fifth inning, each scoring five runs.  Dell Rapids’ five runs came on two outs.  Elly Olson had an RBI single and later scored on a dropped third strike, O’Meara then hit a three-run home run to cut the lead to 9-7, but that was as close as Dell Rapids could get. Dynamite added one more run in the sixth.

O’Meara had three hits, a home run, triple, and double, along with four RBIs.  Olson had two hits, including a triple, with an RBI.  Kriens had a hit and RBI, and Aubrey Hubers also had a hit.  Kya Alderson allowed 10 runs on the mound on 12 hits with two walks and 12 strikeouts.

Early Lead Key in PBR Victory

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Dell Rapids PBR built an early 4-0 lead and then held off a late rally by Salem to get a 10-8 win at home on Sunday, June 13th.  It was the second league win in a row for Dell Rapids PBR.

Weston Hanson drove home the first run in the bottom of the first with an RBI double.  Riley Calhoon had a two-run single, and Grant Sweeter scored on an error in the bottom of the second inning to give PBR a 4-0 lead. 

Salem tied the game after the top of the fifth inning.  The Cubs got a run in the top of the third and three more in the fifth to make the score 4-4.  PBR regained the lead in the bottom of the fifth on back-to-back RBI doubles by Tanner Solberg and Riley Hoffman.  Nate McKee added a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth to extend the PBR lead to 8-4.  Salem picked up two runs in the top of the eighth to pull within two runs, 8-6, but again PBR got two more runs in the bottom of the eighth.  Hanson scored on an error, and Carter Gullickson got an RBI sacrifice fly to give Dell Rapids a 10-6 lead.  Those two runs were vital to the win as Salem scored twice in the ninth, but was unable to complete the comeback.

Calhoon had two hits and two RBIs.  Hanson, Hoffman, and Solberg each had a double and RBI.  David Kirby had two hits.  McKee had a hit with two RBIs.  Matt Gillogly and Sweeter both had hits. 

Hoffman pitched six innings allowing four runs, two earned, on seven hits with two walks and five strikeouts.  Gillogly pitched three innings allowing four runs, all unearned, on one hit with five walks and five strikeouts.

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