The Tri-Valley high school baseball team suffered a 5-3 road loss to Sioux Falls Christian on Wednesday, April 28th.
Sioux Falls Christian took the lead, 1-0, in the bottom of the first inning. Brody Dybvig scored on an error in the top of the third to tie the game 1-1. Sioux Falls Christian put three runs on the board in the bottom of the third to retake the lead, 4-1. They added another run in the bottom of the fifth to extend the lead to 5-1. Treyson Richter had an RBI single in the top of the fifth inning. Cooper Durick scored on a passed ball later in the inning to make the score 5-3. Unfortunately that was as close as Tri-Valley could get.
Dybig finished with two hits, one of them a double. Richter had a single and an RBI. Jackson Williams also had a single. Kade Oehlke pitched 3 1/3 innings and allowed five earned runs on eight hits and four walks with three strikeouts. Reed Smith tossed two innings and struck out four batters. Durick pitched 2/3 of an inning and recorded one strikeout.
