{"id":2091,"date":"2024-07-30T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:48:30","slug":"west-central-16u-qualifies-for-state-a-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/2024\/07\/30\/west-central-16u-qualifies-for-state-a-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"West Central 16U Qualifies for State A Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1064\" src=\"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WCBA_Logo-150x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WCBA_Logo-150x140.png 150w, https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WCBA_Logo.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The West Central 16U team qualified for the South Dakota VFW 16U State A Tournament by winning two games in a best-of-three regional against Milbank on Monday, July 29th.<\/p>\n<h5>West Central 9, Milbank 2<\/h5>\n<p>In the first game of the series, West Central scored the first nine runs of the game.\u00a0 They got three right away in the bottom of the first, one in the second, and another in the third for a 5-0 lead.\u00a0 Four more runs were scored in the bottom of sixth.\u00a0 Milbank got two runs in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>CJ DenBoer had three hits and two RBIs. Keaton Vessells added two hits.\u00a0 Zach Lorang had a single and an RBI.\u00a0 Hayes Cain finished with a hit.\u00a0 Nick Lorang, Jacob Mallinger, Alex Siemonsma, and Ashton Gebhart all had an RBI.\u00a0 Anthony Lanham pitched six innings and allowed five hits and four walks with 10 strikeouts.\u00a0 Siemonsma pitched one inning and allowed two earned runs on two hits and two walks with one strikeout.<\/p>\n<h5>West Central 15, Milbank 4<\/h5>\n<p>The offense kept rolling in the second game.\u00a0 West Central scored two runs right away in the top of the first inning.\u00a0 Milbank got one run in the bottom of the inning for a 2-1 score.\u00a0 West Central added four more in the top of the second for a 6-1 lead.\u00a0 Milbank kept it close after scoring three times in the bottom of the second.\u00a0 The score remained 6-4 until the top of the fourth.\u00a0 West Central delivered the big blow to Milbank with nine runs in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Vessells had four hits, one a double, and two RBIs.\u00a0 DenBoer added two hits and an RBI.\u00a0 Cain and Gebhart both had a single and two RBIs each.\u00a0 Mallinger also had a single.\u00a0 Z. Lorang and N. Lorang both had two RBIs each.\u00a0 Jericho Klein threw four innings and allowed four earned runs on three hits and a walk with five strikeouts.\u00a0 JT Steckley threw one inning walking one and striking out one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Central 16U team qualified for the South Dakota VFW 16U State A Tournament by winning two games in a best-of-three regional against Milbank on Monday, July 29th. 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