TCU 4, Marshall 2

MONTGOMERY — The Marshall baseball team’s bats fell short after a strong first inning against Tri-City United, Friday in the first game of a Big South Conference doubleheader. The Tigers put up a pair of runs in the first but were shut out for the remainder of the game, falling 4-2.

TCU took advantage of a pair of beaned batters with a pair of RBI singles in the third to tie up the game.

An inning later, they scored the game’s final runs when they loaded the bases on an error and two singles. The Tigers got consecutive strikeouts to nearly keep the tie intact, but a wild pitch allowed one run to score and another pair of walks pushed in another run to bring the Titans’ lead to 4-2.

Tyler Kraft was charged with the loss for Marshall, giving up a pair of earned runs on five hits over 3 1/3 innings. Noah Frazee pitched the remaining 2 2/3 frames, holding the Titans scoreless with one hit and three walks.

Andrew Stelter was hit by a pitch in the game’s first at-bat and advanced into scoring position when Eli Weedman reached base on an error. JR Vierstraete took advantage of the opportunity with a two-run double for the game’s first runs.

Vierstraete and Levi Maeyaert each doubled in the game. No Tiger safely reached base twice.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

A. Stelter: 1-2, HBP, R; El. Weedman: 0-3, R, SO; J. Vierstraete: 1-3 (2B), 2 RBI, 2 SO; L. Maeyaert: 1-3 (2B); T. Kraft: 1-3, SO; E. Boeck: 1-3; Et. Weedman: 0-2, BB.

PITCHING

T. Kraft: L, 3.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 3 SO; N. Frazee: 2.2 IP, H, 3 BB, 2 SO.

MARSHALL 4, TCU 0

MONTGOMERY — Andrew Stelter went a perfect 2 for 2 at the plate with a pair of runs while Logan Phillippe and Clayton Jones combined for eight strikeouts while allowing just one hit to lead the Marshall baseball team to a bounce-back 4-0 win over Tri-City United in the second of a doubleheader Friday night.

The Tigers scored their four runs between two each in the first and second innings, and continued to hang onto its lead while keeping TCU scoreless for the rest of the game.

Marshall performed well at the mound to limit TCU’s offensive opportunities. Phillippe tossed the first four innings and finished with five strikeouts while allowing just two walks and one hit. Jones came in for the save and pitched the final three frames, throwing a trio of strikeouts while allowing one walk.

Stelter scored the first run for Marshall in the first inning on a JR line-drive single to left field. Stelter also hit a line drive out to right field to reach base.

Vierstraete then ran home on a Jackson Sirovy RBI single before TCU got the final out with an infield play.

Levi Maeyaert stepped up to the plate in Marshall’s next at-bat in the bottom of the second, and hit a fly ball to center field for a two-run RBI double to score both Stelter and Eli Weedman. Stelter was hit by a pitch to reach base, while Weedman reached base following a TCU error after he hit an infield ground ball.

Both teams held one another off defensively the rest of the way over the next five innings, securing Marshall’s win to split the doubleheader.

The Tigers finished with five hits and no errors to TCU’s single hit and one error.

Marshall (14-3) will return to the field today to host a triangular on Saturday. The Tigers will take on Mankato East at noon, and Montevideo at 4 p.m.

BATTING

A. Stelter: 2-2, 2R; L. Maeyaert: 1-3, 2RBI; J. Vierstraete: 1-3, R, RBI; J. Sirovy: 1-3, RBI; Eli Weedman: 0-2, R.

PITCHING

L. Phillippe: 4 IP, 5SO, H, 2BB; C. Jones: 3 IP, 3 SO, BB.

MCC 13, MLAC 0 (5 inn.)

MOUNTAIN LAKE — Krew Schneider paced the Murray County Central baseball team to another mercy-rule win Friday night with a 13-0 defeat over Mountain Lake Area/Comfrey in five innings. Schneider tossed AN 11-strikeout shutout in four innings on the mound along with a trio of RBIs.

MCC, who still remains undefeated on the season at 13-0, got off to a fast start with four runs in the first, and put the dagger on the win behind a seven-run third inning.

Schneider shared a team-high three RBIs with Alex Heard, while Levi Kopperud had a team-high three runs, as did Teague Meyer. Dugan Kluis also went 2 for 2 at the plate with an RBI.

Meyer got the Rebels’ momentum going with the first run of the day in the opening inning, scoring on a passed ball. He initially got on base with a ground ball and reached on an error.

Kopperud scored the next run behind a Schneider fly ball, as Noah Frisk and Carson Lewis followed close behind. Frisk scored Lewis’ RBI single, as Lewis found himself home with a Cayden Veldhuisen hit.

MLAC struggled with errors, as MCC continued to take advantage and deepen their lead. MLAC finished with seven errors and two hits, to MCC’s clean slate of no errors with six hits.

The Rebels kept chipping away, and Heard’s three-run RBI double on a fly ball to left field highlighted MCC’s third-inning rally. The hit scored all of Kopperud, Frisk and Veldhuisen.

MCC 13-0) will wrap up a three-game road trip when it next travels to Dawson-Boyd on Monday at 3:30 p.m.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

T. Meyer: 1-3, 3R, RBI, BB; T. Behrends: 0-2, R, 2BB; D. Kluis: 2-2, RBI, BB; K. Schneider: 1-2, 3RBI, BB; C. Lewis: 1-4, R, RBI; C. Veldhuisen: 0-3, R, 2RBI; L. Kopperud: 0-0, 3R; A. Heard: 1-2, 3RBI, BB; G. Tentinger: 0-2, R, BB; C. Hanson: 0-2, R, BB.

PITCHING

K. Schneider: 4.2 IP, 11 SO, 2H, 2BB.

ACGC 11, YME 4

GRANITE FALLS — Despite a competitive start and back-and-forth battle through a majority of the game, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City exploded for four late runs in the seventh inning to defeat Yellow Medicine East 11-4 Friday night.

The Sting faced just a 4-3 deficit after the second innings, after both teams scored a pair of runs in the opening inning. The Falcons added in two more in the top of the second, while YME responded with one run.

Drew Monson scored the first run for the Sting in the first inning on a wild pitch, while Hayden Kuehn scored shortly after from third when ACGC attempted to throw down to second to tag-out Lane Wohlman stealing.

The Falcons however scored one run in each the third, fourth and fifth innings, while YME scored just once in the bottom of the fifth. Gunnar Fagen scored on a Gavin Torvik sacrifice ground-out.

Following a scoreless sixth, the Falcons took control of their lead with a four-run seventh inning to not allow YME enough time to bounce back.

The Sting finished with five hits and two errors to ACGC’s eight hits and one error.

Yellow Medicine East (6-7) will next head on a four-game road trip and travel to Canby on Monday at 4:30 p.m.

BOX SCORE

BATTING

D. Monson: 2-2, R, RBI, BB; H. Kuehn: 1-3, R; G. Fagen: 1-2, R; L. Wohlman: 0-2, BB; G. Torvik: 0-3, RBI; C. Lien: 1-3; K. Blankenhagen: 0-2, R; BB.

PITCHING

D. Monson: 0.0 IP, 2ER, 2BB; G. Torvik: 4.1 IP, 5SO, 6H, 4ER, 5BB; L. Anderson: 2.2 IP; 2 SO, 2H, 4ER, BB.