SACRED HEART -- Granite Falls and Sacred Heart will play for the third time in as many days for the District 7-II Southwest title after the teams split Saturday and Sunday games in Legion baseball action.
Granite Falls lost to Sacred Heart 4-1 in the first game Saturday, then beat Cottonwood 11-6 in the loser's bracket final.
Sunday, Granite Falls beat Sacred Heart 2-0 to force a second sub-district title game today at 7 p.m. in Sacred Heart. Rains forced the postponement Sunday's noon start.
Granite Falls 2, Sacred Heart 0
Granite Falls plated single runs in the first and second innings, then Taylor Tollefson shut the door on Sacred Heart (13-8).
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Andrew Walters drove in the game's first run after a three straight singles, then Granite Falls scored again in the second on a balk.
Tollefson allowed six hits, didn't issue a walk and struck out five.
Granite Falls 110 000 0 -- 2 10 2
Sacred Heart 000 000 0 -- 0 6 1
HITTING - Granite Falls: Taylor Tollefson 2-for-4; Tyler Sand 2-for-4; Phil Johnson 1-for-4; Tyler Flattum 2-for-3; Andrew Walters 1-for-3, rbi; Steve Kvam 2-for-3 ... Sacred Heart: Adam Loe 1-for-3; Paul Peterson 1-for-3; Mike Fischer 1-for-3; Trent Novotny 1-for-3; Drew Hultquist 1-for-3; Steve Gens 1-for-3
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Granite Falls: Taylor Tollefson (W) 7-6-0-0-0-5 ... Sacred Heart: Adam Loe (L) 7-10-2-1-0-5
Saturday's Games
Sacred Heart 4, Granite Falls 1
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Dakota Freiborg and Cam Holm combined to pitch a four-hitter for Sacred Heart.
Freiborg allowed one run on four hits over 6Zc innings, striking out eight and walking three. Holm struck out one in the last two outs.
Trent Novotny hit an RBI single as part of a three-run first inning for Sacred Heart. Freiborg led the team with two hits.
Granite Falls 000 000 1 -- 1 4 0
Sacred Heart 300 100 x -- 4 5 2
HITTING - Granite Falls: Taylor Tollefson 1-for-2; Tyler Flattum 1-for-3; Steve Kvam 1-for-3; Tadd Berg 1-for-3 ... Sacred Heart: Dakota Freiborg 2-for-3; Paul Peterson 1-for-3; Trent Novotny 1-for-2, rbi; Brian Harper 1-for-2, rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Granite Falls: Andrew Walters (L) 6-5-4-4-1-1 ... Sacred Heart: Dakota Freiborg (W) 6Zc-4-1-1-3-8, Cam Holm (S) Xc-0-0-0-0-1
Cottonwood 3, Montevideo 2
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Tyler Peterson's RBI double with two outs in the bottom of the seventh gave Cottonwood the win.
John Schmit's single drove in two runs in the first inning for Montevideo's run.
Montevideo 200 000 0 -- 2 3 1
Cottonwood 002 000 1 -- 3 4 2
HITTING - Montevideo: John Schmit 2-for-3, 2 rbi; Grant Kaihoi 1-for-3 ... Cottonwood: Tyler Peterson 1-for-4, 2b, rbi; Josh Ramos 1-for-2; Cory Mattison 1-for-2, 2-run HR, 2 rbi; Jeremy Labat 1-for-2
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Montevideo: Cameron Vien (L) 6Xc-4-3-3-3-4 ... Cottonwood: Tony Ross (W) 7-3-2-0-1-7
Granite Falls 11, Cottonwood 6
Seven players had two-or-more hits for Granite Falls, led by Taylor Tollefson with three. Jordan Hagert hit a three-run home run in a five-run sixth inning and finished with four RBI.
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Granite Falls 102 015 2 -- 11 17 2
Cottonwood 005 010 0 -- 6 7 2
HITTING - Granite Falls: Taylor Tollefson 3-for-5; Tyler Sand 2-for-4; Phil Johnson 2-for-4, rbi; Tyler Flattum 4-for-5, 2 rbi; Andrew Walters 2-for-5; Jordan Hagert 2-for-3, 3-run HR, 4 rbi; Steve Kvam 2-for-3, rbi ... Cottonwood: Tony Ross 1-for-3, rbi; Adam Brewers 1-for-3, rbi; Keith Brewers 1-for-4, rbi; Jeremy Labat 2-for-2, 2 rbi; Nathan Marland 1-for-3; Tyler Peterson 1-for-3
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Granite Falls: Phil Johnson (W) 5-6-6-1-3-5, Tyler Flattum 2-1-0-0-4-3 ... Cottonwood: Josh Ramos 4-6-3-3-0-3, Tyler Peterson (L) 1Zc-8-6-6-0-2, Tony Ross 1Xc-3-2-2-0-1
