No. 3N YME 8, No. 2N LQPV 1

MADISON — Drew Monson homered twice and drove in six runs in the Yellow Medicine East baseball team’s second-round matchup against No. 2 Lac qui Parle Valley on Saturday, powering the Sting to the Section 3A quarterfinals with an 8-1 victory.

The Sting led 1-0 heading into the second when walks to Caysen Lien and Cal Almich with an Aaden Kuehn single in between loaded the bases. With one out, Monson blasted a grand slam over the left-field wall to give the Sting a 5-0 cushion.

Monson finished the day with three hits, two walks and six RBIs. Gunnar Fagen and Kuehn also logged a pair of hits each in the game, including a double and an RBI for Fagen, while Almich walked three times and scored a pair of runs.

Lane Wohlman pitched a complete-game victory for the Sting, limiting LQPV to one earned run on five hits and three walks. He also struck out six batters.

Monson scored the game’s first run when he led off the first with a single and went home on a Fagen double.

LQPV loaded the bases with one out in the fourth and broke up the shutout bit with a sacrifice fly. Yet, the Sting continued to increase their lead when Almich led off the sixth with a walk and Monson followed up with his second home run of the day to left field.

Hildahl capped off the game’s scoring when he drew a walk and scored on an error in the seventh, and the Sting’s pitching and defense took care of business in the bottom of the seventh to close out the victory.

YME improves to 10-11 with the win and nexxt takes on the North’s top-seeded Murray County Central in the 3A semifinals at the Irish Yard in Milroy on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

D. Monson: 3-3 (2 HR), 2 BB, 6 RBI, 3 R, H. Kuehn: 1-5; G. Fagen: 2-4 (2B), RBI; D. Hildahl: 1-3, BB, R; C. Lien: 1-3, BB, R; A. Kuehn: 2-4, R; C. Almich: 0-1, 3 BB, 2 R.

PITCHING

L. Wohlman: W, 7 IP, 5 H, R, ER, 3 BB, 6 SO.

No. 3N YME 12, No. 6N CMC 0 (5 inn.)

MADISON — Gunnar Fagen and Gavin Torvik threw a combined shutout in the No. 3 Yellow Medicine East baseball team’s Section 3A tournament opener on Saturday, leading the Sting to a 12-0 mercy-rule win over No. 6 Central Minnesota Christian.

Fagen threw the first four innings of the win, limiting the Bluejays to a single and two walks with four strikeouts. Torvik struck out the side in the fifth to close out the win.

The YME bats pounced right away, loading the bases in the bottom of the first with walks to Drew Monson and Hayden Kuehn and Fagen getting hit by a pitch. Lane Wohlman broke the game open with a two-run single and Caysen Lien hit an RBI single to bring the score to 3-0.

Lien led the YME offense with two hits for three RBIs. Monson also contributed a pair of RBIs on a double and three walks, while Wohlman logged a single and two walks for two RBIs.

A seven-run fourth inning put the mercy rule into play for the Sting. Leading 5-0, a Fagen double and walks to Wohlman and Torvik loaded the bases. Dane Hildahl, Lien and Drew Almich followed up with consecutive singles, one run scoring on Hildahl and Almich’s and two on Lien’s.

After a strikeout put one away, Monson hit a two-run double and Torvik drew a bases-loaded walk to push across the game’s final run before he struck out the side in the bottom of the frame.

Monson drew a walk in the second before scoring on a balk, and Torvik reached base on an error to drive in Kuehn to bring the score to 5-0.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

D. Monson: 1-1 (2B), 3 BB, 2 RBI, 3 R, 3 SB; H. Kuhen: 0-2, BB, HBP, 2 R, SB, SO; G. Fagen: 1-2 (2B), BB, HBP, SO; L. Wohlman: 1-1, 2 BB, HBP, 2 RBI, R; G. Torvik: 0-2, 2 BB, 2 RBI, R, SO; D. Hildahl: 1-3, BB, RBI, R, SO; C. Lien: 2-3, 3 RBI; C. Almich: 1-2, HBP, RBI, R, SB.

PITCHING

G. Fagen: W, 4 IP, H, 2 BB, 4 SO; G. Torvik: IP, 3 SO.

No. 1N Dawson-Boyd 13, No. 8N Lakeview 0 (5 inn.)

DAWSON — Holland Schacherer’s five RBIs and Eli Olson’s shutout helped the top-seeded Dawson-Boyd baseball team run away with a 13-0 win over No. 8 Lakeview in their Section 3A tournament opener on Saturday.

The Blackjacks’ bats got active early with eight first-inning runs. A pair of singles from Colten Bothun and Nate Hansen, with a Kameron Sather walk in between, loaded the bases with one out and Schacherer took advantage of the opportunity with a three-run triple.

Aedyn Dahl drove in Schacherer with a single and scored when Eli Olson reached on an error to bring the score to 5-0. Aiden Olson reached on another error before Ace Larson hit a two-run double, and Larson scored on a Bothun ground out to cap off the big inning.

Olson struck out eight batters over his five innings on the mound, limiting the Lakers to a single and two walks.

Braylon Breyfogle was charged with the loss for the Lakers, surrendering eight earned and four unearned runs on 11 hits and a pair of walks over three innings. Chase Vogel threw the fourth, giving up one earned run on a pair of hits.

Teagan Neuman hit a single in the second to give Lakeview its lone hit of the day, but Hansen fielded a ground ball in the next at-bat and turned a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

Dawson-Boyd strung together a three-run rally in the third to further pull away. Kyan Moseng was hit by a pitch and Buthun walked to put two on. With two outs, Schacherer hit a two-run double and scored on an Dahl single to bring the gap to 12-0.

Hansen singled in the second before scoring on an error, and he drove in Larson with an RBI single in the fourth.

Lakeview finishes its season at 1-13 and graduates Breyfogle, Landyn Listul, Easton Schmidt and Jared Louwagie.

BOX SCORE

DAWSON-BOYD

BATTING

K. Moseng: 1-2, 2 HBP, R, 2 SB, SO; C. Bothun: 1-3, BB, RBI, 2 R, 2 SB, SO; K. Sather: 0-3, BB, R, SB; N. Hansen: 3-4, RBI, 2 R, SB; H. Schacherer: 2-4 (3B, 2B), 5 RBI, 2 R, SB; A. Dahl: 2-3, 2 RBI, R, SB, SO; E. Olson: 1-2, HBP, R, SB; A. Olson: 1-3, R, SB; A. Larson: 2-3 (2B), 2 RBI, 2 R.

PITCHING

E. Olson: W, 5 IP, H, 2 BB, 8 SO.

LAKEVIEW

BATTING

B. Breyfogle: 0-1, BB, SO; T. Neuman: 1-2; L. Listul: 0-1, BB, SB.

PITCHING

B. Breyfogle: L, 3 IP, 11 H, 12 R, 8 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO; C. Vogel: IP, 2 H, R, ER, SO.

No. 1N Dawson-Boyd 7, No. 4N Canby 5

DAWSON — The fifth-seeded Canby baseball team’s upset bid fell short against top-seeded Dawson-Boyd in the second round of the 3A section tournament on Saturday, with the Blackjacks coming up strong at the plate in the final innings to stave off the Lancers for a 7-5 win.

Kameron Sather threw four innings of relief to earn the win for Dawson-Boyd on the bump, surrendering a pair of earned runs on six hits and a walk. Nate Hansen threw the first three innings, allowing three earned runs on five hits and a walk.

Dawson-Boyd led 4-3 heading into the fifth when Sather and Hansen reached on an error and a walk, respectively, and a Holland Schacherer RBI double scored Sather and Hansen beat out the throw to add another run on an Aedyn Dahl fielder’s choice.

Canby responded in the sixth when Jace Rangaard singled and Morgen Tol doubled. Rangaard scored on a wild pitch, Matthew Zitzmann hit an RBI single to cut the gap to 6-5, and a Cash Antony single put the go-ahead run on base and the tying run in scoring position. The two runners advanced into scoring position in a wild pitch, but a shallow fly out and a ground out got the Blackjacks out of the jam.

Dawson-Boyd loaded the bases in the sixth with singles by Kyan Moseng and Sather, broken up by a Colten Bothun walk. With no outs, Hansen singled in one run to give the Blackjacks a two-run cushion. Yet, Cody Stoll struck out the next batter and Will Abrahamson caught a fly ball and turned a 6-4 double play to end the rally.

Sigler led off the seventh with a double for Canby, bringing the tying run to the plate, but Sather retired each of the next three batters to seal the win.

Tol threw the first five innings for Canby, giving up five earned runs on seven hits and a pair of walks to take the loss. Stoll threw the final frame, giving up one earned run on thre hits and a walk.

Hansen led the Blackjack offense with three hits, a walk and a pair of RBIs and Moseng contributed another pair of singles.

Trailing 3-0, Canby’s offense got into gear when Tol and Christianson hit back-to-back solo home runs to kick off the third inning. Still, Hansen retired three of the next four batters he faced to keep Dawson-Boyd in the driver’s seat.

Dawson-Boyd jumped out to an early lead when Hansen singled in Sather with two outs in the first. An inning later, the lead grew to three runs when Dahl doubled before scoring on an Olson single, and Olson scored on a passed ball.

Hansen got a run back for the Blackjacks after the Lancers’ two-homer inning when he hit a leadoff double and scored on a passed ball. Yet, Canby stayed within striking distance when Sigler and Ben Drietz led off the fourth with back-to-back singled and Rangaard hit an RBI double to cut the gap to 4-3. Still, a strikeout, a fly out and a pop out ended the rally with the go-ahead runs stranded on second and third.

Dawson-Boyd improves to 14-5 and takes on No. 2S Adrian/Ellsworth in the section semifinals at the Milroy Irish Yard on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Canby falls to 9-7 and aims to keep its season alive when it takes on No. 2N Lac qui Parle Valley in the elimination bracket at the same time at Milroy Yankee Field.

BOX SCORE

DAWSON-BOYD

BATTING

K. Moseng: 2-4, R, SB; C. Bothun: 0-3, BB, SO; K. Sather: 1-3, BB, 2 R, 2 SB; N. Hansen: 3-3 (2B), BB, 2 RBI, 2 R, SB; H. Schacherer: 1-4 (2B), RBI, SO; A. Dahl: 1-4, RBI, R, 2 SB; E. Olson: 1-3, RBI, R, 3 SB; A. Olson: 1-3, SB.

PITCHING

N. Hansen: 3 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, BB, 3 SO; K. Sather: W, 4 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, BB, 2 SO.

CANBY

BATTING

C. Antony: 2-3, BB, 2 SB; C. Stoll: 0-3, BB; J. Sigler: 2-4 (2B), R; B. Drietz: 1-3, SO; J. Rangaard: 2-5 (2B), RBI, R; M. Tol: 2-4 (HR), RBI, R, SO; D. Christianson: 1-3 (HR), RBI, R SO; M. Zitzmann: 1-3, RBI, SO.

PITCHING

M. Tol: L, 5 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, SO; C. Stoll: IP, 3 H, R, ER, BB, SO.

No. 4 Canby 11, No. 5 MACCRAY 0 (5 inn.)

DAWSON — Jace Rangaard tossed a complete-game shutout for the No. 4 Canby baseball team in its postseason opener on Saturday against No. 5 MACCRAY. He limited the Wolverines to one hit with no walks and four strikeouts on the day, and the Lancer bats backed him up for an 11-0 win in five innings.

Rangaard was also impactful at the plate, leading Canby with two doubles, a single and four RBIs. Ben Drietz also drove in three runs on a double, a single and a walk while Cash Antony logged two singles and a walk for two RBIs.

Canby loaded the bases with one out on the first on an Antony single, Will Abrahamson getting hit by a pitch and Jace Sigler reaching on an error. Drietz and Rangaard took advantage of the opportunity with a two-run single and a two-run double, respectively, to give the Lancers a four-run cushion.

The Lancers led 5-0 heading into the fourth when they strung together a six-run rally to put the mercy rule in play. Dyllon Christianson walked and Matthew Zitzmann doubled to put two runners in scoring position, and Antony followed up with a two-run single.

With two outs, Stoll drove in Antony with a single. Sigler then singled to put two runners on, and an RBI double from Drietz and a two-run double from Rangaard brought the score to 11-0. Rangaard then retired the side in order in the top of the fifth, capping off the game with a strikeout.

Antony walked and scored on an Abrahamson sacrifice bunt in the second.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

C. Antony: 2-2, BB, 2 RBI, 3 R; W. Abrahamson: 0-1, HBP, RBI, R; C. Stoll: 1-3, RBI, R; J. Sigler: 1-3, 2 RBI; B. Drietz: 2-2 (2B), BB, 3 RBI, 2 R; J. Rangaard: 3-3 (2 2B), 4 RBI; D. Christianson: 0-1, BB, SO; M. Zitzmann: 1-2 (2B), R, SO.

PITCHING

J. Rangaard: W, 5 IP, H, 4 SO.