The Becker baseball team split two games this week to stay two games above .500 at 8-6.

 

Noah Winkelman was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI, and Alec Dietl was 2-for-4 with two RBI as Foley shut out Becker at home in five innings Thursday afternoon. 

 

Dietl earned the complete-game win on the mound with one strikeout.

 

Beau Pauly and Austin Rasmussen had the only two hits for the Bulldogs.

 

Casey Vesledahl earned a complete game win at home in a Granite Ridge Conference win over Zimmerman Tuesday night.

 

Vesledahl gave up four hits and one run for the Bulldogs.

 

Cody Gruenhagen continues to lead the Bulldogs in hitting and has a .429 batting average. Andrew Stanger is not far behind with a .417 average.

 

Gruenhagen leads the team in runs scored and RBIs as well.

 

Becker is 5-2 in the Granite Ridge Conference and in fourth place behind Cathedral (7-3), Little Falls (7-3) and Foley (7-2).

 

The Bulldogs traveled to play at Big Lake Friday (full report on game in next week’s Citizen-Tribune). They then host Albany Monday before hitting the road on the last day of the regular season with a game against Mora Thursday.