DASSEL — Josh Kingery was actually good as soon as once more. The protection was lights out and the Bird Island Bullfrogs’ small-ball type offense produced.
It added as much as a 4-2 win over Waconia on Saturday afternoon at Saints Field.
“”It’s nice to be right here on Sunday,” stated Bullfrogs first baseman Aiden Elfering, who went 2-for-4 with an RBI. “We hit the ball, but we left a lot of guys on base (10).”
Bird Island performs St. Martin within the quarterfinals of the state Class C newbie baseball event at 11 a.m. Sunday at Optimist Park in Litchfield. St. Martin beat Avon 5-4 on Friday evening in Dassel.
The Bullfrogs are again within the elite eight of the a centesimal annual event partly due to Kingery.
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“I had better control this time,” stated Kingery, the left-handed draftee from Atwater who struck out 10 with no walks. He allowed six hits and two runs, each within the ninth. “I had some good guys behind me.”
Last week, Kingery went eight innings within the Bullfrogs’ 5-1 victory over Blue Earth. In that one, he struck out 14 and walked 4.
This day, he saved a power-hitting Lakers squad at bay. Waconia’s six hits included doubles, each within the ninth.
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Meanwhile, the Bullfrogs performed errorless ball whereas the Lakers misplayed a pair lengthy fly balls. One become a triple for Jordan Sagedahl, who scored on an RBI single by Jimmy Woelfel within the fifth to make it 3-0. The different was a two-base error that Shawn Dollerschell reached on and later scored on a Logan Swann RBI single.
Bird Island opened the scoring within the second. Nic Taylor, beginning as a result of Trent Athmann was at a marriage in Montana, smacked an RBI single with two outs and two strikes on him up the center to attain Swann.
“Swanny has been telling him (Taylor) to keep improving so you can take over left field and put me on the bench,” Bullfrogs supervisor Mike Nagel stated.
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The focus for Bird Island is to get to Monday’s championship sport at 1 p.m. in Delano. For that to occur, it must win two video games Sunday, beginning with St. Martin.
Nagel stated he’s not 100% positive who’ll begin Sunday’s first sport, however that will probably be a Bullfrog.
“The Marshall guys (Mitchell Bowman and Charlie Jacobson) will be in the pen,” Nagel stated.
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That leaves Elfering, Jared Dettmann, Casey Lewandowski and Dylan Gass because the probably potentialities. Sagedahl, Bird Island’s shortstop, is also a prime pitcher who performs for South Dakota State.
Nagel’s not involved about pitching depth, however needs to make use of the fitting pitcher in opposition to the fitting lineup in the fitting scenario. Dettmann, who pitched within the minor leagues within the Atlanta Braves organization and is Nagel’s son-in-law, is a possible starter in opposition to the Martins. Elfering, who had a powerful season on the mound for Dubuque University, going 5-2 with a 3.31 earned-run common in 68 innings, is a potential starter within the second sport at 4 p.m. Sunday in Litchfield. Lewandowski, the previous Gustavus Adolphus pitcher, and Gass, the previous Bethany Lutheran College participant, have loads of expertise pitching in huge video games.
“Hopefully, we can get to Monday,” Elfering stated. “That’s the goal every year.”
Waconia 000 000 002-2 6 2
Bird Island 011 010 10x-4 10 0
Hitting – Waconia: Robbie Smith 1-4 r 2b, Derek Martin 1-4 r rbi, Max Kalenberg 1-4 2b rbi, A.J. Friedrich 1-4, Jake Hendricks 1-3 2b, Sam Schiffman 1-2 … Bird Island: Braeden Tersteeg 1-5 r, Jordan Sagedahl 1-3 r 3b hbp sac sb, James Woelfel 2-4 rbi, Aiden Elfering 2-4 2b rbi, Shawn Dollerschell 0-3 r bb, Logan Swann 1-3 r rbi sac, Dylan Gass 2-4, Zeke Walton 0-3 sac, Nic Talor 1-2 rbi bb-2 sb
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) – Waconia: Blake Tritch (L, Mayer Blazers) 4-7-3-2-1-3, Will Lalonde 1.1-1-0-0-1-1, Kodey Simon 2.2-2-1-0-1-2 … Bird Island: Josh Kingery (W, Atwater Chuckers) 9-6-2-2-0-10
