Tri-Valley White 14U baseball played three games in the I-29 League tournament in Flandreau Friday, June 10th and Saturday, June 11th. Tri-Valley White played Tea-D, Hamlin, and Sioux Falls Christian in their three games.
Tri-Valley White 13, Tea-D 0
Tri-Valley White scored 10 runs in the first two innings on their way to a 13-0 win over Tea-D. Four Tri-Valley pitchers combined to keep Tea-D hitless in the game on Friday, June 10th.
Tri-Valley only had one hit in the game themselves, an RBI single by Blaine Wiezoreck. The offense, however, drew 18 walks in the game. Matthew Cyper also had an RBI. Sullivan Snethen pitched 1 1/3 innings walking two batters and striking out one. Cypher pitched an inning and had two strikeouts. Brenner Stuiksma pitched an inning with one strikeout and one walk. Cooper Nielson pitched 2/3 of an inning allowing one walk and struck out two.
Hamlin 10, Tri-Valley White 7
Hamlin scored seven runs in the middle innings and held off Tri-Valley for a 10-7 win on Saturday, June 11th.
Both teams scored three runs in the first inning. Hamlin scored first in the top of the first. Cypher drove home two for Tri-Valley with a single and later scored to tie the game 3-3 after the first inning. Hamlin got two more runs in the top of the third. Tri-Valley got two runs in the bottom of the inning. Nielson had an RBI ground out, and Noah Eggert reached on an error that scored Cypher.
Hamlin added three more runs in the top of the fourth and held Tri-Valley scoreless in their half of the inning for a 10-5 lead heading into the final inning. Tri-Valley scored two times in the bottom of the fifth. Brady Jewett and Cypher both had RBI singles, but Tri-Valley rally was stopped.
Cypher had three hits and three RBIs. Jewett had a hit and an RBI. Snethen had a hit, and Nielson had an RBI. Struiksma pitched all five innings allowing 10 runs, four earned, on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
Tri-Valley White 7, Sioux Falls Christian 5
Tri-Valley had a six-run fourth inning to give them a 7-5 come-from-behind win in their final game of the tournament on Sunday.
Snethen gave Tri-Valley a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a steal of home. Sioux Falls Christian tied the game with a run in the top of the second, and then they took the lead, 4-1, with three runs in the top of the third. Tri-Valley responded with six runs in the bottom of the fourth. Eggert scored on an error, Landon McGill had an RBI double and later scored, Jewett brought home two with a double, and Nielson had an RBI single. Sioux Falls Christian got a solo home run to start the top of the fifth, but the next three batters got out to end the game.
Jewett had two hits, one a double, and two RBIs. Nielson also had two hits, one a double, and an RBI. McGill also had a double and an RBI. Bracken Sharpe added a hit. Snethen pitched two innings and allowed one earned run on a hit with three strikeouts. Jewett pitched three innings and allowed four runs, none of them earned, on a hit and two walks with four strikeouts.
