The Dell Rapids 16U baseball team made the long trek across the state to Spearfish and played four games between Friday, July 8th and Sunday, July 10th. Dell Rapids finished the weekend 2-2.
Spearfish Post 164 16U 4, Dell Rapids 3
Spearfish scored four times in the bottom of the third and earned a 4-3 win over Dell Rapids on Friday.
Quinn Carr had an RBI single in the top of the second to give Dell Rapids a 1-0 lead. Lincoln Fersdahl added an RBI single in the top of the third for a 2-0 lead. Spearfish then had their four-run bottom of the third inning. Dell Rapids got one more run in the top of the fourth when Carr scored on a wild pitch.
Carr and Fersdahl both had a hit and RBI. Tad Tjaden and Luke Schoolmeester both had two hits each. Talan Millage also had a hit. Fersdahl pitched 4 2/3 innings and allowed four earned runs on three hits and six walks with nine strikeouts. Tjaden pitched 1 1/3 innings and allowed three walks with four strikeouts.
Dell Rapids 17, Post 320 Shooters 4
Dell Rapids only scored in three innings, but had an eight-run third, two-run fourth, and seven-run sixth in their 17-4 win over Post 320 on Saturday. Post 320 had a run in the third, two in the fourth, and one in the fifth. Dell Rapids never trailed in the game and finished with 17 total hits.
Cole Ruesink had three hits and two RBIs. Cooper Frost had three hits and an RBI. Fersdahl also had three hits. Tjaden had two hits, one a triple, with four RBIs. Millage finished with two hits, one a double, and two RBIs. Carr had a double and three RBIs. Stubbe also added a double and three RBIs. Micah Pickard had a single and an RBi, and Schoolmeester finished with a single.
Carr pitched four innings and allowed three earned runs on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts. Ruesink pitched 1 2/3 innings and allowed an earned run on a hit and two walks. Frost pitched 1/3 of an inning.
Dell Rapids 16, Post 320 Risers 8
Dell Rapids had another big game, this time against Post 320 Risers, also on Saturday. They scored in every inning while having a total of 15 hits. Dell Rapids scored four times in the bottom of the first and two more in the bottom of the second for a 6-0 lead. The Risers scored four runs in the top of the third, with Dell Rapids added another in the bottom of the inning.
Post 320 Risers tied the game, 7-7, in the top of the fourth with three runs. Dell Rapids broke the tie with two runs in the bottom of the fourth. After the Risers scored a run in the top of the fifth, Dell Rapids ended the game with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Frost had three hits, one a double, with three RBIs. Stubbe also finished with three hits, one a double, and an RBI. Carr added two hits and two RBIs. Ruesink had two hits, one a double, and an RBI. Tjaden had two hits. Fersdahl had a triple with three RBIs. Ethan Kringen added a single and three RBIs. Micah Pickard added a double and two RBIs.
Frost pitched 2 1/3 innings and allowed four runs, three earned, on a hit and five walks with four strikeouts. Millage pitched two innings and allowed four unearned runs with two hits and a walk with two strikeouts. Ruesink pitched 2/3 of an inning and had one strikeout.
Spearfish Post 164 16U 11, Dell Rapids 6
Dell Rapids met Spearfish again on Sunday, but Spearfish won again, this time 11-6. Dell Rapids had a run in the top of the first, but Spearfish had three runs in the bottom of the inning. The lead was cut to 3-2 after Dell Rapids scored a run in the top of the second. They then took the lead with three runs in the top of the third. Spearfish took the lead for good in the bottom of the third with five runs.
Both teams got a run in the fourth inning. Spearfish added two more in the bottom of the sixth.
Tjaden had three singles and three RBIs. Frost finished with two hits and two RBIs. Millage also had two hits, one a double. Schoolmeester had a single and an RBI. Fersdahl had a triple. Stubbe and Konrad Richeal both had a hit. Richeal pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed three earned runs on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts. Tjaden pitched 2 2/3 innings and allowed eight runs, five earned, on two hits and 10 walks with five strikeouts.