The West Central Royal 14U baseball team won one of their last four games in the past week. They fell to. Tri-Valley Maroon on Wednesday, June 18th, dropped a game to Dell Rapids on Friday, June 20th, was blanked by Sioux Falls Chargers on Sunday, June 22nd, but earned a win over Baltic on Tuesday, June 24th.
Tri-Valley Maroon 4, West Central Royal 2
A three-run second inning was enough for Tri-Valley to get the win. West Central took the lead 1-0 with a run in the bottom of the first. Tri-Valley got three of their runs in the second for a 3-1 lead. They added another run in the top of the fifth inning. Luke Larson got an RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but that wasn’t enough for West Central.
Larson had two hits with an RBI. Eli Koehn also had two hits, one a double, with an RBI. Max Lewin added a double. Kane pitched four innings and allowed three earned runs on two hits and a walk with five strikeouts. Lewin pitched three innings and allowed an unearned run on two hits and three walks with two strikeouts.
Dell Rapids Red 13, West Central Royal 3
Dell Rapids built a 6-0 lead to help them to the 13-3 victory on Friday. They scored two in the bottom of the first, one in the third, and three in the fourth for the 6-0 advantage. West Central got two runs in the top of the fifth, but Dell Rapids answered with four in their half of the inning for a 10-2 score. West Central scored one more time in the top of the sixth, but Dell Rapids ended the game on the 10-run rule with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Kayden Munk had two hits with an RBI. Cooper B had a double and two RBIs. Larson. also had a hit. Dean Arends pitched three innings and allowed three earned runs on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Kenny Arends pitched 2 1/3 innings and allowed 10 runs, even earned, on four hits and six walks with one strikeout.
SF Chargers 9, West Central Royal 0
The Chargers held West Central to just one hit in their 9-0 win. Sioux Falls got a run in the top of the first and second innings for a 2-0 lead. They added four more in the fourth inning, two in the fifth, and one last run in the sixth for the 9-0 score. Kane G had the lone hit for West Central.
West Central Royal 12, Baltic 7
West Central used a big rally in the middle of the game to earn the 12-7 come-from-behind win. Baltic scored one in the top of the first, but West Central got two runs for a 2-1 lead. Baltic scored twice in the top of the third to take a brief 3-2 lead. West Central scored four times in the third and five in the fourth for an 11-3 advantage. Baltic cut into the lead, 11-7, with four runs in the top of the fifth. West Central got an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth.
Larson finished with two hits, one a double, and two RBIs. Aiden L, Oliver Gebhard, and Archer Thomsen all had a hit with an RBI. Koehn and Kane G both had one hit. D. Arends had a single. Kane G pitched four innings and allowed three runs, two earned, on three hits and three walks with nine strikeouts. K. Arends threw three innings and allowed three hits and three walks with one strikeout.
