The Dell Rapids High School club baseball team won two of three games over the weekend of April 9th and 10th, including their home opener. Dell Rapids played two games in Sioux Falls on Saturday, April 9th, and then finally had their home opener on Sunday, April 10th.
Dell Rapids 5, Sioux Falls Jefferson 3
In the first game of the day on Saturday, Dell Rapids scored four runs early for a 4-0 lead and held on for a 5-3 victory over Sioux Falls Jefferson. Dell Rapids held Jefferson to just six hits in the game.
Aiden Boechler had two hits. Brayden Pankonen and Mason Stubbe both had a single and an RBI. Landon Ruesink, CJ Smith, and Dylan Mathis all had singles. Will Jaton had an RBI.
Jack Henry pitched four innings allowing one earned run on a hit with five walks and eight strikeouts. Pankonen pitched an inning allowing two runs, one earned, on one hit and two walks. Ruesink pitched the final two innings allowing an earned run on four hits while striking out two.
Sioux Falls Lincoln 6, Dell Rapids 4
Dell Rapids scored first in the game after Henry scored on an error in the top of the first inning. Lincoln scored in the bottom of the second inning on a single to center. Treyse Eastman reached on an error to start the third inning and then stole third. Stubbe had a sacrifice fly to score Eastman to give Dell Rapids a 2-1 lead. Mathis scored on a passed ball in the top of the fourth inning, and Pankonen scored on an RBI ground out by Ruesink to give Dell Rapids a 4-1 lead. Lincoln, however, scored three times in the bottom of the fourth inning and then two more in the bottom of the fifth for the win.
Pankonen had two hits. Jaton, Smith, Boechler, and Joe Rechtenbaugh all had singles. Ruesink and Stubbe each had an RBI. Eastman pitched four innings allowing four earned runs on four hits and four walks while striking out seven. Pankonen pitched two innings giving up two earned runs on two hits and two walks with two strikeouts.
Dell Rapids 14, McCook Central 3
After having their home opening postponed two different times, Dell Rapids finally got their first home game of the season played on Sunday against McCook Central. Dell Rapids wasted no time in electrifying the home crowd. They scored 12 times in the bottom of the first inning and won 14-3 in five innings.
Henry had two hits and three RBIs. Mathis had two hits, including a double, and an RBI. Boechler also had a double with two RBIs. Smith had a single and two RBIs. Ruesink and Braden Fersdahl both had a single and an RBI. Rechtenbaugh pitched three innings allowing an earned run on one hit with three walks and five strikeouts. Jaton pitched an inning allowing two hits and a walk with one strikeout. Sutton Williams also pitched an inning allowing two runs, both unearned, on one hit and had one strikeout.
Dell Rapids will host Baltic on Tuesday, April 12th.