The Tri-Valley White 14U team played in two games in Flandreau at the I-29 League Tournament. They played one game on Friday, June 4th, and one game on Saturday, June 5th.
Tri-Valley faced Tea Navy in the game on Friday. Tea scored eight runs in the first two innings and eventually held on for the 10-4 victory.
Gage Egger had two hits and an RBI. Benjamin Myhre had a double and an RBI. Grant Schlueter had a hit and an RBI. Landon Schenkel had a triple, Parker Hemme had a double, and Levi Kretzschmar had a hit. Denton Bicknase pitched two innings allowing eight runs, two earned, on four hits with two walks. Egger pitched three innings allowing two runs, both unearned, on two hits with two walks and a strikeout.
Tri-Valley then played Madison Gold, but fell by a score of 11-6. Madison scored a run in the first inning and the second inning for a 2-0 lead. Egger had an RBI single in the top of the third inning to cut the lead in half, but Madison scored four more runs in the bottom of the third for a 6-1.
Tri-Valley put together a rally in the top of the fourth inning. Dylan Christensen and Matthew Cypher both had an RBI single. Egger drove home two with a single, and Myhre was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to bring home another run as Tri-Valley scored five times to tie the game 6-6. Madison, however, scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth and then held Tri-Valley scoreless in the fifth for the 11-6 win.
Egger had two hits and three RBIs in the game. Christensen had a hit and an RBI. Cypher had a hit with an RBI as well. Myhre had an RBI. Kretzschmar had a double. Schlueter had a hit.
Myhre pitched three innings giving up six runs, three earned, on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts. Christensen pitched 1/3 of an inning allowing five runs on three hits with two walks. Schenkel pitched 2/3 of an inning allowing a hit with one strikeout.