By Bill Morgan, Staff Writer

 

Summer is in full swing and so are the area’s baseball teams, as the Buzzards, Lakers, Bandits and Legion teams vie for championships.

 

 

Becker’s Legion team played Foley Tuesday and lost by a score of 11-1 in five innings.

 

Noah Novak went 2-for-4 with three RBI to lead Foley. Chris Plante earned the win on the mound for the Falcons, going four innings, giving up no runs on two hits and striking out two.

 

Wyatt Ziwicki went 3-for-3 with an RBI in the win.

 

 

The Lakers played two games last weekend, losing to St. Joseph, 14-0 Saturday and beating Albertville, 14-4 Sunday.

 

Against the Joes on the road, Clear Lake’s Mike Smith started on the mound, throwing four innings, giving up 10 hits, 11 runs, while issuing a pair of walks and three strikeouts. 

 

Hunter Mutterer issued a walk and gave up one run in a brief relief appearance. 

 

Ryan Skymanski threw two innings in relief, he gave up five hits, surrendered two runs and issued one walk. Cole Gueningsman went 2-for-3, Tyler Carper went 1-for-3 and Skymanski went 1-for-2. 

 

Against Albertville, Smith once again was called upon to toe the rubber and he threw 5-1/3 innings to earn the win. Smith gave up four hits, issued four walks, surrendered two runs and  recorded six strikeouts.

 

Richard Thompson threw 1-2/3 innings in relief, giving up one hit, issuing three walks, surrendering two runs and recording three strikeouts. 

 

Matt Korte had a great day at the plate, going 4-for-5 with three doubles while scoring three runs. Ben Anderson went 1-for-4 with a triple for two big RBIs, and he earned a walk and  scored one run. 

 

Smith went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, he was hit by a pitch and he scored one run. Brandon Buesgens went 1-for-5 with two RBIs and he scored a pair of runs. Ryan Skymanski went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and Richard Thompson had a sacrifice fly, he was credited with two RBIs, he earned a walk, had one stolen base and he scored two runs. 

 

Tommy Freisen went 1-for-1 with a big three run home run. Cole Gueningsman went 2-for-4, he earned a walk and he scored three runs, Jordan Golombiecki earned a walk and Tyler Carper scored a run.

 

 

The Bandits played two games last weekend, losing to the Buzzards during Freedom Days Saturday and losing to Sartell Sunday.

The Bandits are still looking for their first win of the season.

 

Saturday, the Bandits lost to the Buzzards by a score of 6-3. Jon Crowley started on the mound for the Bandits and he went three innings, giving up four hits and one earned run. Ryan Hess relieved Crowley in the fourth and he went two innings giving up three hits, three runs with one strikeout, one walk and one HBP.

 

Ryan Swanson and Matt Krenz pitched one inning each to close out the game.

 

Ryan Sommerdorf went 2-for-3 with two RBIs while Hess was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Krenz went 2-for-4, Connor Rolf was 1-for-4 and Morgan Kramer was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.

 

“We seemed to hit the ball well in this game but just couldn’t get runners across when we needed it most,” said Coach Cole Hanson. “ Too many guys left on base.”

 

Sunday against Sartell, the Bandits lost 5-1 despite playing good ball throughout the game with the exception of one inning.

 

Hanson took the mound for Becker and he pitched six innings giving up four hits, five runs (one earned) while striking out seven and walking four. Crowley came on in relief, pitching three innings, giving up one hit while striking out three and issuing one walk.

 

Rolf was 2-for-5 and Kramer was 1-for-3 with a walk. Fassler picked up the sole RBI on a sacrifice.

 

“In this game, we played pretty well throughout the whole game,” said Hanson. “We always have that one inning that hurts us and that is what we need to eliminate to put a complete game together to get a victory especially for a team right now that is searching still for its first win!”

 

 

Saturday, the Buzzards defeated the Bandits by a score of 6-3 during the Freedom Days celebration.

 

The Buzzards got on the board first when Doug May singled and scored on a Josh May single.  

 

The Bandits took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.

 

The old men answered right back with three runs of their own in the top of the fifth when Amos Blomquist was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and replaced by pinch runner Nick Allerson.  Dustin Blomquist followed with a single and Steve Newman bunted and reached on an errant throw, scoring Allerson.   Rich Petty followed with a two-run single and the Buzzards had a 4-3 lead.  

 

The Buzzards added two insurance runs in the top of the sixth with J. May and Newman both scoring.  

 

The Bandits threatened with base runners in both the sixth and seventh innings, but Tanner Bakke was able to get some big strikeouts to work out of the jams.  

 

Bakke got the win, going all seven innings.  He allowed eight hits and struck out seven.  

 

Petty led the way offensively with two hits and three RBI.  

 

The Buzzards’ next games are Sunday as they play a doubleheader in Carlos.