So the weather is nice now, but for how long can we appreciate such conditions?
High school sports faced adversity through the spring. Far more than usual, I would suggest, and the usual is challenging. This current week has been cooperative. Well it's about time. So prep teams have been busy. On Monday (5/23) the baseball Tigers visited Melrose. It was a hard-fought game that was captured by the Tigers, score of 3-2.
The Dutchmen struck first with two runs in the first inning. We answered in the third with a two-run rally. Ross Marty came home on a Riley Asmus base rap. Brandon Jergenson scored on a misplay by the right fielder. Our run in the sixth proved to be the game-winner. A passed ball opened the door. It allowed Dylan Rose to scamper across home plate.
The Tigers' line score was three runs, eleven hits and four errors. Yes, we had to survive some bumpy fielding. The Melrose line was 2-8-1.
Brett Hansen pitched six innings to get the win. He struck out six batters and walked none. Melrose touched him for eight hits and he gave up two runs, earned. Drew Huebner pitched one inning in which he got two of the three outs by strikeout. He walked two and allowed no hits.
The pitcher of record for Melrose was Devin Orbeck: six innings, six strikeouts, three walks, eight hits allowed, three runs (two earned). Max Wehlage pitched an inning and was touched for three hits.
OK let's look at the hitting. Here we have Kaleb Breuer with two hits, one of them a double, and he stole a base. Asmus went two-for-four, drove in a run and stole a base. Marty had a hit, a run scored and a walk. Jergenson had a hit and a run.
Sam Kleinwolterink socked a double. Kyle Fehr had a hit plus he reached on hit-by-pitch. Trevor Buss added to the mix with a hit. Hansen had a one-for-three line, and Rose had a hit in his only at-bat while drawing two walks and scoring a run. So all in all, a day of positive highlights for coach Kirby Sayles' crew.
The Melrose batters with hits were Orbeck, Connor Anderson, Ethan Frieler, Isaac Rosenberger, Wehlage and Breydon Dobmeyer. The Tigers came out of the day 15-3. At present we're all getting focused for the post-season.
True team track
One can get confused with the late-season track and field terminology. You might hear the term "state meet" but it's not the "real" state meet. Well, in a way it is because it's the Class A True Team State Meet. It's an alternative way of judging team strength. The idea is to accentuate team balance, quality across the board. And our boys team took ninth by this standard. Action was Saturday in Stillwater.
Ethan Lebrija was No. 1 in the long jump. He was No. 2 in both the 100m and 200m dashes. Trey Hunt had impact in the dashes too: 10th in the 100m, eighth in the 200m. The shot put saw Evan Oberg in second and Monte Fehr in tenth. Oberg threw the discus to sixth place. Fehr was the No. 11 discus thrower.
The exciting pole vault event had Kaden Bruns in third. Max Lietz took fourth in the triple jump. Blake Bruns was ninth in the 400 meters. The 4x800m relay team took eighth.
Perhaps none of our girls finished high enough to be reported, unfortunately. I found no details.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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