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The Dell Rapids high school baseball team had their season come to an end in the regionals at Rickeman Field on Tuesday, May 19th.\u00a0 Dell Rapids defeated McCook Central\/Montrose in the opening game of the tournament but fell to Lennox in the state-qualifying game.<\/p>\n
In the first game of the day for Dell Rapids, both teams were locked in a battle through four and a half innings.\u00a0 The score remained 0-0 until the bottom of the fifth.\u00a0 Lincoln LeBrun broke the scoreless tie by scoring on a wild pitch.\u00a0 Drake Eastman had an RBI double, and Gauge Bunkers added an RBI single to put Dell Rapids ahead 3-0.\u00a0 McCook Central\/Montrose got a run in the top of the sixth to cut the lead to 3-1.<\/p>\n
Carson Maeschen had an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth to extend the lead back to three runs, 4-1.\u00a0 AJ Brandenburg had an RBI sacrifice fly.\u00a0 Tommy LaVoy added an RBI fielder’s choice and then later scored on a passed ball to put Dell Rapids ahead 7-1.\u00a0 Those proved to be big insurance runs.\u00a0 McCook Central\/Montrose scored three times in the bottom of the inning, but Dell Rapids was able to shut down the rally for the win.<\/p>\n
Eastman finished with a double and an RBI.\u00a0 Bunkers, Maeschen, and LaVoy all had a hit and an RBI.\u00a0 Jackson Peppel, Connor Hanson, and LeBrun all had one hit each.\u00a0 Brandenburg ended with an RBI.\u00a0 Owen Bollock pitched six innings and allowed four earned runs on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts.\u00a0 Cam Jones pitched one inning and allowed a hit.<\/p>\n
A big first inning for Lennox was all the momentum they needed as they held off Dell Rapids to advance to the state tournament.\u00a0 Lennox scored four times right away in the top of the first inning.\u00a0 Jackson Peppel put Dell Rapids on the board with an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning.\u00a0 Lennox got the run back in the top of the third to push the lead back to four, 5-1.<\/p>\n
The score remained 5-1 until the top of the seventh.\u00a0 Lennox got two big insurance runs to extend their lead to 7-1.\u00a0 Dell Rapids tried to get a rally going in the bottom of the seventh.\u00a0 Bunkers delivered an RBI single with no one out to make the score 7-3.\u00a0 Maeschen had an RBI double later in the inning to cut the lead to 7-4.\u00a0 Lennox, however, was able to shut down the rally to take the win.<\/p>\n
Maeschen had two hits, one a double, and an RBI.\u00a0 Peppel also had two hits with an RBI.\u00a0 Eastman added two singles.\u00a0 Bunkers ended with a single and an RBI.\u00a0 Kenny Swanson and Brandenburg both had one hit each.\u00a0 Bunkers pitched three innings and allowed five runs, three earned, on four hits and two walks with one strikeout.\u00a0 Joe Trumbauer pitched four innings and allowed two earned run on five hits and five walks.<\/p>\n
Dell Rapids finished the season with a 23-3 overall record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Dell Rapids high school baseball team had their season come to an end in the regionals at Rickeman Field on Tuesday, May 19th.\u00a0 Dell Rapids defeated McCook Central\/Montrose in the opening game of the tournament but fell to Lennox in the state-qualifying game. Dell Rapids 7, McCook Central\/Montrose 4 In the first game of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142,41],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-dell-rapids-baseball","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n