Tri-Valley 16U couldn’t get out of an early deficit and lost to Garretson 10-5 on Thursday, July 22nd in Garretson.

Garretson scored four times right away in the bottom of the first inning.  Tri-Valley got a run back in the top of the second when Lawson Loiseau scored on a wild pitch.  Garretson, however, scored two more in the bottom of the second for a 6-1 lead.  Noah Haynes had an RBI ground out in the top of the third, but again Garretson responded with three more runs in the bottom of the third to push the lead to 9-2.

Duncan Snethen had an RBI single for Tri-Valley in the top of the fourth inning.  Garretson’s final run also game in the fourth inning to make the score 10-3.  Cole Focken scored on an error in the top of the fifth inning, and Haynes had an RBI single in the top of the seventh for the final Tri-Valley run.

Everett Althoff had three hits.  Haynes had two hits and two RBIs.  Kaden Egger had two hits.  Snethen had a hit and an RBI.  Beau Keith and Loiseau both had a triple in the game.  Focken added a single.  Althoff pitched two innings allowing six runs, three earned, on five hits with a walk and three strikeouts.  Aidan Heitkamp pitched an inning allowing three runs, all unearned, on two hits with three walks and a strikeout.  Mason Hendrixson pitched three innings allowing an unearned run with two walks and a strikeout.

Tri-Valley held a 10-3 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning over Madison on Thursday, July 15th.  Tri-Valley ended the game with just a slim one-run victory at 10-9.

Tri-Valley scored two runs right away in the top of the first.  Beau Keith scored on an error and Lawson Loiseau drew a bases-loaded walk for an early 2-0 lead.  After Madison got one run in the bottom of the first inning, Tri-Valley added two more in the top of the second.  Both Kaden Egger and Keith scored on an error in the inning.  Two more runs scored in the top of the fourth on a two-run single by Mason Hendrixson.  Madison scored two times in the bottom of the fourth inning to cut the lead to 6-3.

Tri-Valley then had a four-run sixth inning.  Egger scored on an error, Cole Foken had an RBI triple, Hendrixson had an RBI single, and then Hendrixson scored on an error to push the lead to 10-3.  Madison put together a big rally in the bottom of the seventh.  The first six batters reached based before an out was recorded, and all six scored to cut the lead to 10-9.  Tri-Valley was then able to get three of the next four batters out to stop the rally and win the game.

Hendrixson had two hits and three RBIs.  Loiseau had two hits and an RBI.  Keith had two hits, including a double.  Everett Althoff also had two hits.  Focken had a triple and an RBI.  Egger, Jydin Dahl, Noah Haynes, and Ledger Burggraff all had a single in the game. 

Haynes pitched six innings allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits with two walks and three strikeouts.  Hendrixson allowed six earned runs on four hits with two walks.  Egger got the final three outs allowing just one hit while striking out one.

Tri-Valley 16U scored three times in the fourth for an 8-5 win over Flandreau at home on Monday, July 12th.

Flandreau scored the first two runs of the game.  They got a run in the top of the first and one in the top of the second for a 2-0 lead.  Tri-Valley then scored five times in the bottom of the second inning.  Holden Rise drew a bases-loaded walk, and Lawson Loiseau scored on an error to tie the game.  Beau Keith had a two-run single, and Kaden Egger stole home for a 5-2 lead after two innings.

Flandreau got two runs back in the top of the third inning and then tied the game with a run in the top of the fourth.  Tri-Valley, however, scored three times with two outs which proved to be the game-winning runs.  Cole Focken had a two-run single, and Mason Hendrixson had an RBI single for the 8-5 advantage.

Focken had two hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Keith had a hit and two RBIs.  Hendrixson had a hit and an RBI.  Everett Althoff and Duncan Snethen both had singles.  Egger and Rise each had an RBI.  Keith pitched four innings allowing four earned runs on eight hits with five walks and five strikeouts.  Egger pitched three innings allowing two hits with one walk and five strikeouts.

Tri-Valley and Flandreau put on an offensive show in Flandreau on Thursday, July 8th.  The two teams combined for 27 runs and 36 hits in the seven-inning game.  Tri-Valley’s late runs secured a 14-13 victory.

Tri-Valley scored three runs in the top of the first inning only to see Flandreau score two in the bottom of the first.  Tri-Valley then scored one run in the second, and Flandreau scored two more times.  The game was tied 4-4 after two innings.

Flandreau took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning with three runs for a 7-4 lead.  Tri-Valley, however, scored six times in the fifth inning to regain the lead 10-7.  Flandreau cut the lead to one with two runs in the bottom of the sixth.  Tri-Valley scored four times in the top of the seventh to lead 14-9, and all four runs were needed.  Flandreau scored four times in the bottom of the seventh and has the tying run on third base when the third out was recorded.

Cole Focken had four hits, including a double, with three RBIs.  Mason Hendrixson and Lawson Loiseau both had three hits and an RBI each.  Aidan Heitkamp had two hits, one double, and an RBI.  Brendan Newman had two hits and an RBI.  Everett Althoff also had two hits.  Noah Haynes had a double and two RBIs.  Derek Van Asselt had a hit and two RBIs.  Kaden Egger, Tanner Van Asselt, and Troy Nebelsick all had a hit in the game as well.

Althoff pitched three innings allowing six runs, four earned, on five hits and five walks and a strikeout.  Hendrixson pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up three earned runs on seven hit with two walks and three strikeouts.  Haynes pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing four runs, two earned on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.