RAYMOND –Mitchell Bouwman’s heroic pitching effort wasn’t enough for the A’s to steal a road win over Raymond in Corn Belt League play on Friday. Bouwman threw 129 pitches over the full nine innings, holding the Rockets without an earned run, but the A’s lost 2-1.

The game was tied at one run apiece heading into the bottom of the ninth. A hit batter and an error put two runners on, and a passed ball allowed them to both advance into scoring position. Marshall got a fielder’s choice at the plate and Bouwman got a strikeout to leave Marshall one run away from forcing extras, but a wild pitch allowed the Rockets to walk off the A’s, 2-1.

Bouwman struck out 13 batters in the game while limiting the Rockets to four hits and two walks.

Raymond scored in the bottom of the first to take the lead, but Marshall responded with a tying run in the sixth.Cody Wichmann, Talan Plante and Connor Neubeck drew consecutive walks to load the bases with one out and Ryan Schwagel hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game.

Marshall falls to 8-4 with the loss and will next host the Willmar Rails on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Legion Field.

BOX SCORE

1  2  3  4  5 6 7 8 9   R H E

MAR:    0  0  0  0  0  1  0 0 0 1 2 2

RAY:  1 0  0 0  0  0 0 0 1 2 4 0

Batting

C. Wichmann: 1-3, BB; T. Plante: 0-2, BB; C. Neubeck: 0-2, 2 BB; R. Schwagel: 0-3, RBI; L. Tomasek: 0-2, 2 BB; Z. Olsen: 1-3; T. Wichmann: 0-3, BB.

Pitching

M. Bouwman: 9 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 13 SO

Drakes’ bats erupt in win over Jaxx

DAWSON –Braden Thompson’s five RBIs helped lead the Dawson Drakes to a lopsided 25-7 win over Wabasso in non-league play on Friday night. The game was tied at 6-6 through the first two innings, but the Drakes rattled off back-to-back four-run innings before tacking on 10 runs in the fifth to claim a 25-7 win in seven innings.

Braden Thompson finished with five RBIs on three walks in the game. Blake Thompson also had a triple and a single for three RBIs while Braxton Thompson and Grayson Olson each drove in another three RBIs on one hit and a pair of walks for Thompson and two hits and two walks for Olson.

Josh Staab earned the win on the mound for Dawson, giving up five earned and two unearned runs on 10 hits and three walks over five innings. Braxton Thompson closed out the game with two scoreless innings, striking out a pair of Jaxx while giving up two hits.

Adryen Tietz led the Wabasso lineup with three hits. Colton Taylor also had two hits and a walk while Seth Guetter and Cooper Freitag each had a pair of singles.

CJ Theis took the loss on the mound for the Jaxx, giving up six earned and eight unearned runs on nine hits and seven walks over four innings.

Dawson improves to 2-3 on the season with the win and goes on the road to take on the Clinton Cards on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Wabasso falls to 4-10 and looks to bounce back on Friday when it goes on the road to take on the Granite Falls Kilowatts at 7:30 p.m.

BOX SCORE

1  2  3  4  5 6 7   R H E

WAB:    3 3 0 0 0 1 0 7 12 7

DAW:  5 1 4 4 10 1 x 25 12 3

BATTING

Wabasso

A. Tietz: 3-4; C. Taylor: 2-2, BB, SB; J. Liebl: 1-2, BB, 2 RBI; S. Guetter: 2-4 (2B); C. Theis: 1-3, 2 RBI; C. Freitag: 2-4, RBI; N. Anderson: 0-4, RBI; C. Kemp: 1-3, BB.

Dawson

K. Sather: 0-3, 4 BB; Brad. Thompson: 0-3, 5 RBI, 3 BB; Bl. Thompson: 2-6 (3B), 3 RBI, BB; N. Hansen: 1-4, RBI, BB, SB; J. Baldwin: 1-3, 2 RBI; Brax. Thompson: 1-3, 3 RBI, 2 BB; G. Olson: 2-4, 3 RBI, 2 BB, SB; C. Olson: 2-4, 2 RBI, BB; T. Long: 2-3, 2 RBI, BB.

Wabasso

C. Theis: 4 IP, 6 ER, 9 H, 7 BB; C. Freitag: 0.2 IP, 3 ER, 2 H, 7 BB, SO; C. Kemp: 1.1 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 2 BB.

Dawson

J. Staab: 5 IP, 5 ER, 10 H, 3 BB; Brax. Thompson: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 SO.