 The Dell Rapids Mudcats earned a split of their last two games.  They defeated the Flandreau Blue Teal on Sunday, July 6th but fell to Madison on Tuesday, July 8th.
The Dell Rapids Mudcats earned a split of their last two games.  They defeated the Flandreau Blue Teal on Sunday, July 6th but fell to Madison on Tuesday, July 8th.
Mudcats 7, Blue Teal 2
Dell Rapids waited until the final two innings, but they rallied for a 7-2 win over the Flandreau Blue Teal.  Flandreau scored two times in the top of the first inning.  The score remained 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth.  Ty Hoglund drove home a pair of runs with a single to tie the game 2-2.  The Mudcats used that momentum to score five times in the bottom of the sixth to get the come-from-behind win.
Hoglund finished with two hits and three RBIs.  Reece Arbogast also had two hits.  Chad Hunt had a single and an RBI.  Austin Henry and Josh Roeman both had a double.  Sutton Williams added an RBI.  Arbogast pitched three innings and allowed two unearned runs on a hit and walk with four strikeouts.  Henry pitched four innings and stuck out nine batters.
Madison 6, Mudcats 3
Madison Dairy Queen rallied for six straight runs to get a 6-3 win over the Mudcats.  Dell Rapids took the lead in the bottom of the first with a run.  They scored two more times in the bottom of the third for a 3-0 lead.  Madison chipped away at the lead.  Dairy Queen scored a run in the top of the fourth and another in the top of the sixth to make the score 3-2.  They took the lead, 5-3, with three runs in the top of the eighth and then added an insurance run in the ninth.
Arbogast had two hits and an RBI.  Thomas Schuring added a double.  Hoglund, Carter Gullickson, and Nolan Burchill all had one hit each.  Burchill pitched six innings and allowed two earned runs on five hits and a walk with eight strikeouts.  Treyse Eastman pitched three innings and allowed four runs, three earned, on three hits and three walks with a strikeout.