The Dell Rapids Mudcats claimed the 2021 South Dakota Class B Amateur Baseball state title for the first time since 2008 with a 16-1 win over Flandreau in the title game on Sunday, August 15th at Cadwell Park in Mitchell.  Prior to the title game, the Mudcats had a 7-1 win over Larchwood and a 6-0 win over Winner/Colome.

The Mudcats scored first in the bottom of the first inning.  Matt Burpee, pickup player from Madison, reached on an error scoring Chad Hunt.  Flandreau tied the game in the top of the second on a home run by Brett Severtson, but the game then belonged to the Mudcats.

Dell Rapids had a four-run bottom of the third inning.  Josh Roemen had a two-run double.  Trevor Freudenthal added an RBI single, and Dalton Lehnen had an RBI double to give the Mudcats a 5-1 lead.  The Mudcats delivered the big blow in the bottom of the fourth inning.  Hunt scored after Mark Abrahamson reached on a catcher’s interference call.  Freudenthal added an RBI single, and then Lehnen hit a grand slam home run to push the lead to 11-1. 

The Mudcats continued to pour on the runs.  Abrahamson had a three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to extend the lead to 14-1.  The game ended in the bottom of the sixth inning on the 15-run rule after Ty Hoglund had an RBI ground out and Hunt had an RBI single.

Lehnen finished with three hits, including a home run and double, and five RBIs.  Roemen had two hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Freudenthal also had two hits and two RBIs.  Hunt had two hits, including a double, and an RBI.  Abrahamson had a home run and four RBIs.  Hoglund had a hit and an RBI, and Dalton Allen and Grant Olson both had a hit.  Kris Regas pitched all six innings allowing one earned run on six hits with eight strikeouts.

Lehnen and Regas were named Co-MVPs of the tournament.

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Flandreau	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	1	6	5
Dell Rapids Mudcats	1	0	4	6	3	2	X	X	X	16	13	0

The Dell Rapids Mudcats took another step closer to a state title with a 13-5 second round win over Wynot at the 2021 South Dakota Class B Amateur Baseball Tournament in Mitchell on Tuesday, August 10th.

Wynot jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Mark Abrahamson sparked the Mudcat offense with a three-run home run in the bottom of the inning to cut the lead to 4-3.  Abrahamson struck again in the bottom of the fourth inning with a solo home run to tie the game 4-4.  The Mudcats rallied from there scoring nine more times while holding Wynot to just one more run for the win to advance to the quarterfinals.

Abrahamson finished with three hits and five RBIs in the game.  Grant Olson also had three hits along with an RBI.  Nate Henry, Matt Burpee (pickup player from Madison), and Josh Roemen all had two hits and an RBI each.  Dalton Allen had a hit and two RBIs.  Ty Hoglund had a hit and an RBI.  Chad Hunt and Trevor Freudenthal both had a hit.  The Mudcats had a total of 16 hits in the game.

Dalton Lehnen pitched eight innings allowing five runs, three earned, on eight hits with two walks and 11 strikeouts.  John Spaeth pitched an inning of scoreless relief striking out two batters.

The Mudcats will play Larchwood in the quarterfinals on Friday, August 13th at 5:30 p.m. in Mitchell.

The Dell Rapids Mudcats had no trouble in the opening round of the 2021 South Dakota State B Amateur Baseball Tournament in Mitchell on Friday, August 6th.  The Mudcats scored in every inning but one in a 15-0 victory over the Lake Norden Lakers. 

Dell Rapids had a total of 17 hits in the game while Kris Regas held Lake Norden to just two hits with 13 strikeouts while pitching all six innings of the game.

Chad Hunt had four hits and an RBI.  Trevor Freudenthal had three hits while driving home six runs.  Mark Abrahamson had two hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Josh Roemen had two hits and two RBIs.  Nate Henry and Ty Hoglund both had two hits in the game.  Matt Burpee (Madison pick-up player) and Grant Olson each collected a hit.

The Mudcats will play Wynot in the second round on Tuesday, August 10th at 5:30 p.m. in Mitchell.

The Dell Rapids Mudcats took second at the District 4B tournament in Colman on Saturday, July 31st, falling to the Flandreau Cardinals 10-6 in the championship game.

Flandreau grabbed the early lead in the game.  They scored two times in the first inning and then two more in third for a 4-0 lead.  The Mudcats cut the lead in half with two in the fourth inning.  Chad Hunt drove home both runs to make the score 4-2.  Flandreau, however, broke the game open in the seventh with four runs for an 8-2 lead.  The Mudcats got three runs in the eighth inning.  Ty Hoglund, Nate Henry, and Mark Abrahamson all had RBI hits.  Flandreau scored two times, and the Cardinals led 10-5 after eight innings.  Josh Roemen had a solo home run in the ninth, but that was the only run Dell Rapids would get in the inning.

Travis Peters had three hits in the game.  Hunt had two hits, a double and single, and two RBIs.  Grant Olson had two hits, including a double.  Roemen had a home run and an RBI.  Abrahamson had a double and an RBI.  Hoglund and Henry both had a single and an RBI.  Jimmy Bauer and Trevor Freudenthal both had a single.

Dalton Allen pitched one inning allowing two runs on two hits with two strikeouts.  John Spaeth pitched four innings allowing two runs on two hits with one strikeout.  Abrahamson pitched four innings and gave up six runs on four hits.

The Mudcats will play the Lake Norden Lakers on Friday, August 6th at 7:30 p.m. in the opening round of the South Dakota Amateur State B Tournament in Mitchell.

The Dell Rapids Mudcats traveled to Colman on Tuesday, July 13th for a make-up game from July 6th.  Dell Rapids broke a 2-2 tie in the fifth and eventually pulled away for a 7-2 win.

The Mudcats scored two in the top of the first inning.  Nate Henry and Trevor Freudenthal both had RBI singles to give Dell Rapids a 2-0 lead.  Colman tied the game in the bottom of the third with two runs of their own on a two-run single by Chase DeWitt.  Henry gave the Mudcats the lead in the top of the fifth inning with a solo home run.  Grant Olson added an RBI ground out later in the inning for a 4-2 lead.  Chad Hunt had an RBI single in the top of the sixth inning to make the score 5-2.  Freudenthal brought home two more runs in the top of the ninth with a single to make the score 7-2.

Henry had two hits, including a home run, and two RBIs. Freudenthal also had two hits and two RBIs. Ty Hoglund and Mark Abrahamson both had two hits. Hunt and Kris Regas both had a single. Olson had an RBI. Abrahamson pitched eight innings for the win giving up two runs on four hits with 11 strikeouts. John Spaeth pitched an inning without allowing a hit.

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Mudcats	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	7	11	0
Colman	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	5

The Dell Rapids Mudcats scored two big wins in their last two Cornbelt League games.  The Mudcats defeated Salem 12-3 on Thursday, July 8th.  Then then clobbered Lennox 21-2 on Sunday, July 11th.

The Mudcats scored five early runs in the first two innings on Thursday.  They added another in the third and two more in the fourth for an 8-0 lead.  Salem picked up a couple of runs in the bottom of the fourth and another in the fifth, but wouldn’t get any closer the rest of the night.

Ty Hoglund had three hits and an RBI.  Landon Ruesink also had three hits.  Nate Henry had two home runs and three RBIs.  Grant Olson had two hits, including a double, and an RBI.  Travis Peters, Trevor Freudenthal, and Dalton Allen all had two hits in the game.  Logan Stone had a double.  Kris Regas pitched seven innings allowing three runs on six hits with 16 strikeouts for thee win.  John Spaeth pitched two innings striking out three batters.

The Mudcats put on an offensive show on Sunday clobbering three grand slams in the five-inning win over the Lennox.  The Mudcats scored 10 runs in the first, six more in the second, one in the third, and four in the fourth.  Lennox got their two runs in the second inning.

Nine players had at least one hit in the game.  Dalton Lehnen had a grand slam in the first inning and a single with five RBIs.  Henry had a grand slam in the second inning and four RBIs.  Ruesink had his grand slam in the fourth inning and four RBIs.  Freudenthal had two doubles and two RBIs.  Regas had three hits, one double, and two RBIs. Allen had two hits and an RBI.  Logan Stone had a hit and two RBIs.  Jimmy Bauer had a hit and an RBI.  Mark Abrahamson had a double, and Hoglund had a hit.  Lehnen pitched all five innings allowing two runs and two hits with nine strikeouts.

The Canova Gang took a 2-1 victory over the Dell Rapids Mudcats in Canova on Tuesday, June 29th.

Kris Regas took the loss for the Mudcats despite pitching eight innings of four-hit baseball with 18 strikeouts.  Dell Rapids was charged with five errors in the game.

Derek Miller took the win for Canova throwing a complete game on just five hits with five strikeouts.

The Mudcats will take to the field on Tuesday, July 6th at Colman for their next game.

The Dell Rapids Mudcats rallied for five runs in the eighth inning to score a 12-8 win over the Madison Broncos on Sunday, June 27th at Rickeman Field in Dell Rapids.

Dell Rapids did have an early lead.  The Mudcats scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning.  After Madison scored one in the top of the third, Dell Rapids added two more in the bottom half of the inning for a 4-1 lead after three innings of play.

The Broncos got another run in the top of the fourth, and then three more in the top of the fifth to take a 5-4 lead.  The lead was short-lived as Dell Rapids scored a run in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game 5-5.  The Broncos responded with three more in the top of the sixth.  The Mudcats scored two times to pull within a run at 8-7 after six innings.  Dell Rapids then sent 10 batters to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning, scoring five times to take a 12-8 lead.  Madison was retired in order in their half of the ninth inning.

Dalton Lehnen had three hits, including a home run, and had three RBIs.  Kris Regas had two hits and an RBI.  Grant Olson had two hits, one a double.  Ty Hoglund and Dalton Allen both had two hits.  Mark Abrahamson had a hit and two RBIs.  Travis Peters had a single and an RBI.  Chad Hunt and Trevor Freudenthal both had singles.

John Spaeth was the winning pitcher after relieving the starter Abrahamson. Spaeth threw no-run, no-hit baseball over the last three innings, and the Mudcats played flawlessly on defense, after committing six miscues in the first six innings.