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The West Central 16U team took third place at the 2024 South Dakota VFW State A Tournament in Vermillion held Friday, August 9th through Sunday, August 11th.<\/p>\nThe West Central 16U team took third place at the 2024 South Dakota VFW State A Tournament in Vermillion held Friday, August 9th through Sunday, August 11th.<\/p>\n
In the opening round of the tournament, West Central pulled away late for a 7-0 win over Mobridge.\u00a0 After a scoreless first inning, West Central got a single run in both the second and third innings for a 2-0 lead.\u00a0 They added three more in the bottom of the fifth and two in the sixth for the 7-0 score.<\/p>\n
Anthony Lanham pitched 5 2\/3 innings allowing four hits and two walks with eight strikeouts.\u00a0 Jericho Klein pitched the final 1\/13 innings and struck out one batter.\u00a0 CJ DenBoer, Hayes Cain, Langdon Klinkhammer, and Taten VanOverbeke all had one hit each.\u00a0 Zach Lorang and Nick Lorang both had an RBI.<\/p>\n
A late rally by Dakota Valley gave them a one-run win in the semifinals on Saturday.\u00a0 West Central took the lead right away in the top of the first with a run.\u00a0 They would score fore more in the top of the third for a 5-0 lead.\u00a0 Dakota Valley, however, got two runs in the bottom of the fifth and three more in the sixth to tie the game 5-5.\u00a0 With one out and a runner on third, a sacrifice line out allowed the game-winning run to score for Dakota Valley in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n
Z. Lorang finished with a double and two RBIs.\u00a0 Cain had a single with an RBI.\u00a0 N. Lorang and Ashton Gebhart each had a single.\u00a0 Keaton Vessells had an RBI.\u00a0 Klein pitched five innings and allowed two earned runs on three hits and three walks with a strikeout.\u00a0 Alex Siemonsma allowed three earned runs on three hits.\u00a0 Vessells pitched 1 2\/3 innings and allowed an unearned run on a walk with two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
In the 3rd\/4th place game on Sunday, West Central grabbed an early lead.\u00a0 They scored two runs in the bottom of the first and added another in the third for a 3-0 lead.\u00a0 Tri-Valley got a run in the top of the fourth and another in the fifth to cut the lead to 3-2.\u00a0 Tri-Valley got two runners on base in the top of the seventh, but were unable to get the tying run home.<\/p>\n
Z. Lorang finished with two hits.\u00a0 Gebhart had a single with two RBIs.\u00a0 Vessells also had a hit with an RBI.\u00a0 N. Lorang added a double.\u00a0 DenBoer, Cain, Klinkhammer, and Siemonsma all had one hit each.\u00a0 Gebhart pitched four innings and allowed an unearned run on two hits and two walks with three strikeouts.\u00a0 Klinkhammer threw three innings and allowed an earned run on four hits with three strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The West Central 16U team took third place at the 2024 South Dakota VFW State A Tournament in Vermillion held Friday, August 9th through Sunday, August 11th. West Central 7, Mobridge 0 In the opening round of the tournament, West Central pulled away late for a 7-0 win over Mobridge.\u00a0 After a scoreless first inning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[41,156],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-16u-baseball","tag-featured","tag-west-central-16u-baseball"],"yoast_head":"\n