The Big Lake Legion baseball team swept a doubleheader on the road last Thursday against St. Francis.
Big Lake 10, St. Francis 4
In game one, the Saints jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning only to have the Hornets respond with two in their half of the inning to make it 4-2. Big Lake would shut out the Saints the rest of the way and added six runs in the second, one in the third and one in the fifth to win by six.
Big Lake got on the board in the first when Collin Skaug walked and Nolan Reiter doubled to left field to drive Skaug in. Keenan Hjermstad followed Reiter’s single with a double to score him.
In the second inning, Dylan Robeck drove a single to right and Conner Stern walked to put runners at first and second. Jaxyn Tschritter advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt and both runners scored on Skaug’s triple to center field. Reiter followed with a single to score Skaug and Hjermstad walked to move Reiter up a base. Samson Schlegel doubled both runners home.
In the third, Big Lake increased the lead to 9-4 when Stern walked and stole second, Skaug reached on an error and Hjermstad reached on another error to score Stern.
The final tally came in the sixth when Schlegel singled to left and stole second before reaching third on an error to the catcher. Jonah Blackman got Schlegel home when his ground ball was muffed by St. Francis’ second baseman.
Skaug finished the game going 1-3 with two runs scored and one walk. Reiter was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, two runs scored and one walk. Schlegel was also 2-for-3 and had one run scored and one RBI.
Schlegel got the win on the mound, going 5.2 innings, giving up three hits, four runs, three walks and had eight strikeouts.
St. Francis’ Braden Fiene took the loss, going 1.2 innings, giving up eight runs on six hits while walking three and striking out two.
St. Francis had eight errors and Big Lake three.
Big Lake 13, St. Francis 3
In game two, the Hornets put the game away very early by scoring nine times in the top of the first to cruise to a 10-run win.
Skaug got things rolling when he singled on a hard ground ball past the Saints second baseman. Schlegel came in as a courtesy runner for Skaug and advanced to second on a Reiter single. Hjermstad grounded into a fielder’s choice to advance Schlegel to third and he eventually scored when I Terlinden singled between short and third.
Kaden Haselius grounded out with the lead runner advancing to third and Terlinden advancing to second. Robeck got an RBI on a single as Terlinden moved up a base and he scored on a wild pitch. Stern walked to put himself on first and Robeck remained at third. Stern and Robeck completed a double steal to score another run and C Stukenholtz soon walked to put runners at first and second.
Aiden Payne singled to right to score Stern and advance Stukenholtz to second. Skaug doubled to right to score Payne and Stukenholtz scored on a passed ball.
Reiter singled to keep the inning alive and Hjermstad followed with a single to put runners on second and third following an error. Reiter would score the ninth run on another error before the inning finally ended on a weak fly ball to center.
In the third, Big Lake added three more when Stukenholtz walked and stole second base. Payne popped out to the second baseman for the first out and Skaug drove Stukenholtz home with a triple. Reiter reached first on a fielder’s choice with Skaug remaining at third. Hjermstad flew out to right with Skaug scoring and Reiter advancing all the way to third base. Terlinden singled Reiter home to complete the scoring in the third.
One more run was added in the fourth when Stern reached first on an error and gained second on yet another error to get in scoring position. After advancing to third on a Payne single, Stern scored on a Skaug ground out.
Skaug was 3-for-4 with a single, double and triple and scored once while driving in three. Terlinden was also 3-for-4 with three singles, two RBIs and one run scored.
