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The West Central 14U baseball team finished 0-4 at the 2026 South Dakota VFW 7th-9th Alpha State Tournament held in Sioux Falls Friday, July 24th through Sunday, July 26th.\u00a0 They were awarded the William Radigan Sportsmanship Award for the tournament.<\/p>\n
In the first game of pool play on Friday, Milbank got a quick lead in the bottom of the first on their way to the win.\u00a0 They scored two in the bottom of the first and five more in the bottom of the second for a 7-0 lead.\u00a0 Machivelli Lipsey had an RBI single, and Quincy Petersen also had an RBI in the top of the third to make the score 7-2.\u00a0 Milbank, however, would score seven more times in the bottom of the inning for a 14-2 score.<\/p>\n
Lipsey and Petersen both finished with a hit and an RBI.\u00a0 Ben Goehring also had a hit in the game.<\/p>\n
West Central faced Belle Fourche in the second pool play game on Friday.\u00a0 Early runs were again key in the game.\u00a0 Belle Fourche scored three in the top of the first, two in the second, and four more in the top of the fourth for a 9-0 lead.\u00a0 Archer Thomsen scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the first, and Goehring scored on a dropped third strike for a 9-2 score.\u00a0 Belle Fourche added three more runs in the top of the fifth, and the game ended on the 10-run rule after the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
Thomsen, Goehring, and Preston Hoekman all had one hit each.<\/p>\n
Bracket play began on Saturday.\u00a0 West Central took an early lead in the top of the first.\u00a0 Samuel Spisak and Ashton Brenner each drew a bases-loaded walk.\u00a0 Cameron Heying drove home two with a single.\u00a0 Brenner would score on a steal of home, and Heying scored on an error to give West Central a 6-0 lead. Unfortunately Sioux Falls took the lead in the bottom of the inning with 11 runs.\u00a0 They scored eight more in the bottom of the second for a 19-6 lead.\u00a0 West Central got one run back in the top of the third, but Sioux Falls had three runs in the bottom of inning to end the game on the 15-run rule.<\/p>\n
Heying had two hits and two RBIs.\u00a0 Goehring finished with a single and an RBI.\u00a0 Petersen also had a hit.\u00a0 Spisak and Brenner each had one RBI.<\/p>\n
West Central and Belle Fourche faced off again in the 5th\/6th place game on Sunday.\u00a0 West Central scored first in this game as well.\u00a0 Brenner stole home in the top of the first for a 1-0 lead.\u00a0 Spisak had an RBI single, and Easton Parsons was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to put West Central ahead 3-0.\u00a0 Belle Fourche, however, scored eight times in the bottom of the first.\u00a0 They had six more in the bottom of the second and two in the bottom of the third.<\/p>\n
Thomsen had two of the three hits in the game for West Central.\u00a0 Spisak had a hit and an RBI.\u00a0 Parsons also had an RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The West Central 14U baseball team finished 0-4 at the 2026 South Dakota VFW 7th-9th Alpha State Tournament held in Sioux Falls Friday, July 24th through Sunday, July 26th.\u00a0 They were awarded the William Radigan Sportsmanship Award for the tournament. Milbank 14, West Central 2 In the first game of pool play on Friday, Milbank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[41,154],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14u-baseball","tag-featured","tag-west-central-14u-baseball"],"yoast_head":"\n