Baltic scored four straight runs in a 4-2 win over Dell Rapids in an I-29 16U League game in Dell Rapids on Tuesday, June 14th.

Dell Rapids scored first in the bottom of the second inning.  Brandon Schmidt had an RBI ground out that scored Cooper Frost for the first run.  Riley Schultz had an RBI sacrifice fly in the top of the third to tie the game 1-1.  Baltic took the lead in the top of the fourth when Carson Eggert scored on a throw to third after a ground out.

The lead for Baltic grew to 4-1 after two runs in the top of the sixth.  Gunner Schultz had a two-run single with two outs.  Dell Rapids got one run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI ground out by Luke Schoolmeester.

Baltic was led by G. Schultz with two hits and two RBIs.  Tayden Hansen, Jose Valadaz, and Landon Peterson all had hits.  R. Schutlz and Blake Hookie both had RBIs.  Hansen pitched seven innings allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits and a walk with six strikeouts.

Lincoln Fersdahl had two hits for Dell Rapids.  Cole Ruesink and Talan Millage both had a single.  Schoolmeester and Schmidt each had an RBI.  Mason Stubbe pitched five innings and allowed two earned runs on three hits and four walks with six strikeouts.  Fersdahl pitched two innings and allowed two earned runs on two hits and a walk with three strikeouts.

The Dell Rapids 16U baseball team won two games at home on Sunday, June 12th.  Dell Rapids got a 12-0 win over Hamlin and 8-0 over Madison White 8-0.

Dell Rapids 12, Hamlin 0

Dell Rapids scored in every inning while two pitchers combined to hold Hamlin without a hit in the game.  Things got started in the bottom of the first for Dell Rapids with three runs.  They scored six more in the second, three in the third, and one more in the fourth.

Quinn Carr had two hits, one a triple, and two RBIs.  Lincoln Fersdahl had two doubles and an RBI.  Cooper Frost had a double and two RBIs.  Luke Schoolmeester, Carson Crosby, and Grady Lamer all had a single and an RBI.  Cole Ruesink also had a hit.  Talan Millage pitched three innings and recorded two strikeouts.  Fersdahl pitched two innings and allowed two walks with three strikeouts.

Dell Rapids 8, Madison White 0

A seven run third inning helped Dell Rapids to an 8-0 win over Madison White.  Tad Tjaden held Madison to just three hits and one walk while striking out 11 batters.

Ruesink had two hits and two RBIs.  Mason Stubbe finished with two hits and an RBI.  Brandon Schmidt had a double.  Fersdahl, Millage, and Frost all had a single.  Carr, Tjaden, and Schoolmeester each had an RBI.

Both Dell Rapids Red 14U and Dell Rapids Navy 14U played in the I-29 League Tournament held in Flandreau Friday, June 10th through Sunday, June 12th.  Both teams finished 0-3 in their tournament games.

Dell Rapids Red played Tri-Valley Maroon and fell 15-5 on Friday.  Parker then defeated Dell Rapids Red 15-0 also on Friday.  The final game was an 8-2 loss to Garretson on Saturday.  Luke Symens held Garretson to two runs in his two innings pitched.  Connor Hanson pitched the final three innings and struck out six batters.

Dell Rapids Navy lost a hard-fought 1-0 game to West Central Blue in their first game on Friday.  They lost another close one to Madison Maroon, 4-1, on Friday as well.  Baltic then defeated Dell Rapids Navy 9-4 on Saturday.  Thomas Lavoy had three hits and three RBIs in the three games.  Jackson Peppel and Kenny Swanson both had two hits and two RBIs each.

Both Dell Rapids Navy 14U and Dell Rapids Red 14U had I-29 League games on Tuesday, June 7th.  Dell Rapids Navy traveled to Tea, and Dell Rapids Red hosted Volga.

Dell Rapids Navy earned a 17-5 win over Tea-P.  Both teams scored four runs in the first inning and another run in the second inning for a 5-5 tie.  Dell Rapids then scored 12 unanswered runs in the next three innings for the win.  Eight different players collected a hit and seven of then had at least one RBI.

Dell Rapids Red gave up nine runs in the top of the first inning, but hung tough the rest of the game in an 11-0 loss at home.  Volga got a run each in the third and fourth innings.  Dell Rapids Red put a threat together in the fifth inning with three walks, a hit batter, and a single, but a caught stealing during the inning kept them off the board.

Dell Rapids 16U held off Baltic in a back-and-forth game on Monday, June 6th.  It was the first game of the I-29 League season for Dell Rapids.

Lincoln Fersdahl opened the scoring in the top of the first with an RBI single.  Baltic scored three times in their half of the first on three hits.  Baltic extended the lead to 4-1 after an RBI ground out in the bottom of the second inning.

Dell Rapids pulled within a run after a two-run top of the third.  Fersdahl brought home Tad Tjaden for the second time in the game on an RBI sacrifice fly.  Luke Schoolmeester followed with an RBI single.  Dell Rapids then took the lead in the top of the fifth with four runs.  Sutton Williams scored on a wild pitch, Schoolmeester had an RBI single, Frost had an RBI single, and Cole Ruesink scored on an error for a 7-4 lead.

Baltic added a run in the bottom of the fifth.  Both teams scored in the sixth inning.  Fersdahl drove home his third run with a single.  Ruesink also had an RBI single giving Dell Rapids a 9-5 lead.  Baltic also scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to cut the lead to 9-7.  Baltic put together a two-our rally in the bottom of the seventh getting one run, but Dell Rapids was able to stop the rally for the win.

Fersdahl finished with three hits and three RBIs.  Schoolmeester had two hits and two RBIs.  Ruesink had two singles and an RBI.  Frost had a single and an RBI.  Tjaden, Williams, Quinn Carr, and Talan Millage all had a hit.  Ruesink pitched three innings allowing four earned runs on five hits and four walks with four strikeouts.  Konrad Richeal pitched four innings and allowed four runs, three earned, on four hits with four walks and five strikeouts.

The Dell Rapids 16U baseball team started their 2022 season at in a tournament in Luverne, MN.  Dell Rapids played three games between Friday, June 3rd and Saturday, June 4th, finishing 1-2 in the tournament.

Dell Rapids 5, Luverne 4

Dell Rapids broke a 2-2 tie with three runs in the top of the fifth, and then held Luverne for a 5-4 win on Friday.  Brandon Schmidt scored the first run on a wild pitch in the top of the third inning.  Sutton Williams followed with an RBI single for an early 2-0 lead.  Luverne answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning.

Tad Tjaden gave Dell Rapids the lead again with an RBI single in the fifth.  He then stole home later in the inning, and Quinn Carr had an RBI double to push the Dell Rapids lead to 5-2.  Luverne got a run in the bottom of the sixth inning and one more in the seventh, but Dell Rapids held for the win.

Tjaden finished with two hits and an RBI.  Lincoln Fersdahl had two hits.  Carr had a double and an RBI.  Williams finished with a single and an RBI.  Mason Stubbe had a triple.  Schmidt and Matthew Nelson each had a single.  Fersdahl pitched four innings allowing two earned runs on a hit with seven walks and eight strikeouts.  Konrad Richeal pitched the final three innings allowing two runs, both unearned, on two hits while striking out five.

Marshall Orange 3, Dell Rapids 2

Marshall scored single runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings to get a 3-2 win over Dell Rapids on Saturday.  Dell Rapids scored first in the bottom of the third inning.  Tjaden had an RBI infield single scoring Cooper Frost.  Dell Rapids was held to just the one run until the bottom of the seventh inning.

After the first two batters reached on errors for Dell Rapids, Marshall pitching was able to get two strikeouts.  Stubbe was hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs.  Tjaden followed with an RBI single to pull Dell Rapids within a run at 3-2, but Dell Rapids could not get the trying run across home.

Tjaden had two hits and two RBIs.  Stubbe had a double.  Williams and Talan Millage both had a single.  Williams pitched five innings allowing a run, which was unearned, on one hit and four walks with six strikeouts.  Cole Ruesink pitched two innings allowing two earned runs on five hits with one strikeout.

Jackson MN 10, Dell Rapids 6

Dell Rapids a three-run first inning and a three-run seventh inning, but Jackson scored 10 times in between those innings to earn the win on Saturday.

Luke Schoolmeester got the scoring started for Dell Rapids with a two-run single.  Matt Nelson reached on an error that scored Ruesink for an early 3-0 lead.  Jackson got a run in the bottom of the first and then another in the bottom of the third.  Dell Rapids led 3-2 heading into the fourth inning, but Jackson scoured four runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth for a 10-3 lead.

Schoolmeester drove home another run in the seventh with an RBI single.  Both Ruesink and Williams scored on a wild pitch in the inning, but the seventh-inning rally was not enough.

Schoolmeester had three hits and three RBIs.  Stubbe finished the game with two hits.  Tjaden and Carson Crosby both had hits as well.  Stubbe pitched three innings allowing two runs, one earned, on three hits and two walks with six strikeouts.  Millage pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing five runs, none of them earned, on a hit and four walks with two strikeouts.  Frost pitched 1/3 of an inning allowing three earned runs on three walks and a strikeout.  Schmidt threw one inning and struck out two batters.

The two Dell Rapids 14U teams have played a total of seven games between the two of them early in the 2022 season.

Dell Rapids-Navy is currently 3-0 in the I-29 League.  After a season-opening win over West Central-Gold, they have earned two more wins without giving up a run.  Dell Rapids-Navy defeated Tea-D by a score of 20-0 on May 26th and then earned a 6-0 win over Sioux Falls Christian on May 31st.  They will travel to Tea on Tuesday, June 7th for their next game.

Dell Rapids-Red is still looking for their first win of the season.  They lost to Flandreau 16-0 on May 26th, Elkton 29-0 on May 31st, and Tri-Valley White 14-2 on June 1st.  Dell Rapids-Red will host Volga on Tuesday, June 7th.