The Dell Rapids 16U baseball team started their 2022 season at in a tournament in Luverne, MN. Dell Rapids played three games between Friday, June 3rd and Saturday, June 4th, finishing 1-2 in the tournament.
Dell Rapids 5, Luverne 4
Dell Rapids broke a 2-2 tie with three runs in the top of the fifth, and then held Luverne for a 5-4 win on Friday. Brandon Schmidt scored the first run on a wild pitch in the top of the third inning. Sutton Williams followed with an RBI single for an early 2-0 lead. Luverne answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning.
Tad Tjaden gave Dell Rapids the lead again with an RBI single in the fifth. He then stole home later in the inning, and Quinn Carr had an RBI double to push the Dell Rapids lead to 5-2. Luverne got a run in the bottom of the sixth inning and one more in the seventh, but Dell Rapids held for the win.
Tjaden finished with two hits and an RBI. Lincoln Fersdahl had two hits. Carr had a double and an RBI. Williams finished with a single and an RBI. Mason Stubbe had a triple. Schmidt and Matthew Nelson each had a single. Fersdahl pitched four innings allowing two earned runs on a hit with seven walks and eight strikeouts. Konrad Richeal pitched the final three innings allowing two runs, both unearned, on two hits while striking out five.
Marshall Orange 3, Dell Rapids 2
Marshall scored single runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings to get a 3-2 win over Dell Rapids on Saturday. Dell Rapids scored first in the bottom of the third inning. Tjaden had an RBI infield single scoring Cooper Frost. Dell Rapids was held to just the one run until the bottom of the seventh inning.
After the first two batters reached on errors for Dell Rapids, Marshall pitching was able to get two strikeouts. Stubbe was hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Tjaden followed with an RBI single to pull Dell Rapids within a run at 3-2, but Dell Rapids could not get the trying run across home.
Tjaden had two hits and two RBIs. Stubbe had a double. Williams and Talan Millage both had a single. Williams pitched five innings allowing a run, which was unearned, on one hit and four walks with six strikeouts. Cole Ruesink pitched two innings allowing two earned runs on five hits with one strikeout.
Jackson MN 10, Dell Rapids 6
Dell Rapids a three-run first inning and a three-run seventh inning, but Jackson scored 10 times in between those innings to earn the win on Saturday.
Luke Schoolmeester got the scoring started for Dell Rapids with a two-run single. Matt Nelson reached on an error that scored Ruesink for an early 3-0 lead. Jackson got a run in the bottom of the first and then another in the bottom of the third. Dell Rapids led 3-2 heading into the fourth inning, but Jackson scoured four runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth for a 10-3 lead.
Schoolmeester drove home another run in the seventh with an RBI single. Both Ruesink and Williams scored on a wild pitch in the inning, but the seventh-inning rally was not enough.
Schoolmeester had three hits and three RBIs. Stubbe finished the game with two hits. Tjaden and Carson Crosby both had hits as well. Stubbe pitched three innings allowing two runs, one earned, on three hits and two walks with six strikeouts. Millage pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing five runs, none of them earned, on a hit and four walks with two strikeouts. Frost pitched 1/3 of an inning allowing three earned runs on three walks and a strikeout. Schmidt threw one inning and struck out two batters.