The Dell Rapids Legion baseball team took to the road for the second game in a row on Wednesday, June 10th. They traveled to Beresford for the second game of a double-header after the 15/16 teener game.
Beresford scored first in the bottom of the first inning on a Dell Rapids error for an early 1-0 lead. Dell Rapids tied the game in the top of the second on an RBI single by Logan Ellingson scoring Kaeden Eastman. Dell Rapids took the lead for good in the top of the third inning. Logan Stone hit an RBI single scoring Landon Ruesink. Stone later scored on an RBI groundout by Noah Swartwout. Drew Van Regenmorter added an RBI single scoring Brandon Geraets for a 4-1 lead. Beresford cut the lead to one in the bottom of the fourth inning after scoring two runs to make the score 4-3. The score remained 4-3 until the top of the seventh. Dell Rapids added three more runs on an RBI walk to Swartwout, an RBI walk to Ty Wood, and Eastman scoring on an wild pitch. Dell Rapids held Beresford scoreless in the seventh for the 7-3 victory.
Logan Stone finished with two hits, two runs scored, and an RBI. Geraets also had two hits and two runs scored. Ellingson also collected two hits and an RBI. Van Regenmorter and Wood both had a hit and RBI. Jake Steineke also had a hit.
Stone also pitched five innings in a great game on the mound to earn the win. He gave up three runs, two earned, on four hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Steineke pitched the final two innings giving up just one hit and striking out three.
Dell Rapids (2-1) travels to Vermillion on Monday, June 15th for their next game.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | ||
Dell Rapids | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | |
Beresford | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 |