MORRIS -- ACGC put up three runs in the second on four hits, including an RBI double by Jeff Peterson, and the Falcons went on to defeat Morris 8-2 in West Central South baseball on Friday.
Jordan Tanner pitched a complete game, a six-hitter with two walks. Joey Slinden's two hits for ACGC (7-2, 7-3) included a double.
Losing pitcher Matt Wohlers singled twice for Morris (3-6, 3-8).
ACGC 8, Morris 2
ACGC 030 202 1 -- 8 8 4
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Morris 011 000 0 -- 2 6 2
HITTING -Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City: Vance Martin 1-for-4, Jeff Peterson 2-for-3, 2b, rbi, 2 runs; Travis Fredriksen 1-for-4, rbi; Brooks Mauer 1-for-2, 2b; Joey Slinden 2-for-3, 2b, rbi; Bryce Thorp 1-for-4; Dan Fuchs 1-for-2, 2b, rbi ... Morris: Dusty Sauter 1-for-4, Mike Siegel 1-for-4, Matt Wohlers 2-for-4, Darrick Henrichs 1-for-3, Danton Hein 1-for-2
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) --... Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City: Jordan Tanner (W)_7-6-2-1-2-2... Morris: Matt Wohlers (L) 6-5-7-5-5-2, Kirby Sayles 1-2-1-1-1-1
Minnewaska 3, BOLD 2
Minnewaska (8-2, 8-3) inched closer to securing at least a share of the conference title despite collecting only four hits. The Lakers scored twice in the second on three BOLD errors and on a wild pitch.
Alex Gay and Brad Gass drew walks to open the BOLD (2-7, 4-8) fifth and Jon Caspers singled to drive in Gay. Gass then scored on a groundout.
Brad Dunn singled to lead off the bottom half of the frame for Minnewaska and Mike Whittemore followed with a triple to drive in Dunn with the winning run.
Whittemore shook off six walks in five innings to pick up the win. Nick Sutton fanned three in two scoreless innings of relief.
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BOLD 000 020 0 -- 2 5 3
Minnewaska 020 010 x -- 3 4 1
HITTING - BOLD: Alex Gay 1-for-3; Jon Caspers 2-for-4, rbi; Derek Smith 1-for-2; Taylor Wertish 1-for-3 ... Minnewaska: Mike Whittemore 1-for-3, 3b, rbi; Alex Henricks 2-for-3; Brad Dunn 1-for-3
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- BOLD: Shawn Dollerschell (L) 51/3-4-3-1-2-2, Jake Boresma 2/3-0-0-0-0-1 ... Minnewaska: Mike Whittemore (W) 5-4-2-2-6-2, Nick Sutton (S) 2-1-0-0-0-3
West Central North
NLS 3, Sauk Centre 2
The Wildcats' Ethan Illies won a pitchers' duel at Sauk Centre.
NLS got all three runs in the first on a two-run double by Luke Reiter and a single by Jack Hartley, which scored Reiter.
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Illies gave up five hits, no walks and fanned five.
After a shaky first, Andrew Gieske shut down the Wildcats the rest of the way to finish with a six-hitter.
Michael Buschette's two-run homer in the third accounted for all of Sauk Centre's runs.
NL-Spicer 300 000 0 -- 3 6 1
Sauk Centre 002 000 0 -- 2 5 0
HITTING - New London-Spicer: Luke Peterson 1-for-3, 2 sb's; Kevin Soine 1-for-4; Luke Reiter 1-for-3, 2b, 2 rbi; Jack Hartley 1-for-3, rbi; Skylar Wachter 1-for-3; Jacob Moritz 1-for-3, 2b ... Sauk Centre: Michael Buschette 1-for-3, 2-run HR, 2 rbi; Tyler Berling 1-for-3, 2 sb's
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- New London-Spicer: Ethan Illies (W) 7-5-2-2-0-5 ... Sauk Centre: Andrew Gieske (L) 7-6-3-3-3-3
