The Canova Gang ended the tournament run for the Dell Rapids Mudcats on Friday, August 16th in Mitchell. Canova advanced to the semifinals of the 2019 South Dakota Class B Amateur Baseball Tournament with a 7-0 win over the Mudcats.

The game was scoreless through the first four innings of the game. The Gang scored all seven of their runs in the bottom of the fifth on six hits and one Mudcat error in the inning. Dell Rapids was held to just three total hits in the game. Josh Roemen had two of the hits while Grant Olson picked up the other hit.

Brett Mogen, a Dell Rapids PBR pickup player for Canova, earned the win for the Gang on the mound. He pitched a complete game with three hits allowed along with two walks and 10 strikeouts. Blake Svoboda took the loss for the Mudcats pitching four and 1/3 innings giving up seven runs, four earned, on six hits with five walks and four strikeouts. John Spaeth pitched the final three and 2/3 innings giving up three hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Canova lost in the semifinal round to Garretson 5-0. The game lasted into the early morning hours of Sunday, August 18th due to the storms that rolled across South Dakota on Saturday evening. Alexandria then defeated Garretson 2-0 to claim the Class B title on Sunday afternoon.

A six-run second inning and a four-run fourth inning is all the Dell Rapids Mudcats needed to earn a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2019 South Dakota Class B State Tournament. Dell Rapids defeated Four Corners by a score of 16-6 in eight innings on Wednesday, August 14th in Mitchell to advance in the tournament.

After Four Corners scored a run in the top of the second inning, Dell Rapids scored six runs on six hits in the bottom of the inning. Grant Olson, Jared Donahue, Josh Roemen, and Nate Henry all had RBI hits in the inning. Four Corners cut the lead to 6-5 by scoring a run in the top of the third inning and three more runs in the top of the fourth. The Mudcats responded with a four-inning of their own in the fourth inning to extend the lead to 10-5. Travis Peters and Olson had RBI hits, and Dell Rapids also scored two more runs on an error.

Johnson drove in another Mudcat run in the top of the sixth inning. Chad Hunt and Mark Houck brought home three more runs for Dell Rapids in the seventh to make the score 14-5. Four Corners scored in the top of the eighth, but the Mudcats scored two more times on an error and RBI hit by Nate Henry to end the game on the 10-run rule.

Eight Mudcat hitters had a multi-hit game. Houck and Roemen both had three hits and two RBIs. Hunt also had three hits with an RBI. Henry and Olson finished with two hits and two RBIs apiece. Peters and Donahue both had two hits and an RBI. Johnson had a hit and RBI. Story finished with two hits in the game. Jordan Johnson pitched four innings giving up five runs, four earned, on seven hits with two walks and five strikeouts. Andrew Wegner pitched three innings giving up just one hit and two walks with three strikeouts. Austin Henry pitched one inning giving up an earned run on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts.

The Mudcats will play Canova in the quarterfinals on Friday, August 16th. First pitch is scheduled for about 7:30 p.m. in Mitchell.

The Dell Rapids Mudcats won their opening round game of the 2019 South Dakota Class B State Amateur Baseball Tournament on Sunday, August 11th, at Cadwell Park in Mitchell.  Dell Rapids defeated the Dimock/Emery Raptors 10-4 to advance to the second round.

The Raptors scored first in the top of the first inning, but Dell Rapids answered with two runs in the bottom of the first inning on a two-run double by Mark Houck.  Dimock/Emery scored another run int he top of the second inning to tie the game and added another run in the third inning for a 3-2 lead.

The Mudcats responded with six unanswered runs to go ahead for good in the game.  Dell Rapids scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on an RBI double by Grant Olson and an RBI single by Aaron Johnson.  The Mudcats then added four more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, all with two outs.  Houck scored on an error, Travis Peters had an RBI single, and Olson drove home two more runs with another double.  Dell Rapids added two more runs in the eighth inning on a two-run single by Houck to put away the Raptors.

Houck finished with two hits and four RBIs.  Olson had two doubles and three RBIs in the game.  Johnson and Peters both had two hits and an RBI.  Chad Hunt, Josh Roemen, and Jimmy Bauer also had two hits apiece.  Nate Henry and Trevor Freudenthal also had hits.

Donahue took the win pitching six innings while giving up three runs, two earned, on four hits with four walks and seven strikeouts.  Blake Svoboda pitched the final three innings giving up an unearned run on four hits with a walk and two strikeouts.

The Mudcats will play Four Corners in the late game on Wednesday night, August 14th.