The Hartford/Humboldt legion baseball team is headed to the state tournament after winning their regional tournament on Saturday, July 23rd. Hartford/Humboldt won the championship game against Lake Norden by a score of 7-5.
Neither team scored in the opening inning of the game. Lake Norden put together a four-run bottom of the second and led 4-0. Hartford/Humboldt then scored in the next three innings. Loren Jacobson had an RBI single in the top of the third. Gavin Koch scored on an error, Logan Maras scored on a wild pitch, and Deuce Sherrard and Gage Nelson both scored on an error in the top of the fourth to give Hartford/Humboldt a 5-4 lead. They would add two more runs in the top of the fifth on a two-run single by Sherrard. Lake Norden got one run in the bottom of the seventh.
Sherrard and Bennett Sebert both had a single and two RBIs. Jacobsen had a hit and an RBI. Connor Siemonsma finished with a double. Jack Linneman, Koch, and Maras all had a single. Derek Renken pitched 6 1/3 innings and allowed five runs, one earned, on one hit and five walks with four strikeouts. Koch pitched the final 2/3 of an inning and had one walk.