ST. MARTIN -- George Jacobson and Jordan Smith combined on a four-hitter and Willmar edged Little Falls 3-1 in the championship of the four-team Albany Invite.
Willmar blanked Dassel-Cokato 2-0 in the first game behind Alex Malmgren's two-hitter.
Willmar will play Tri-Town Tuesday at Atwater in its next game. That game is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
Willmar 2, Dassel-Cokato 0
Willmar scored both of its runs in the third inning off Jake Hendricks. With one out, Mike Dunham and Logan Birkland hit consecutive singles and Jordan Smith followed with a run-scoring single. After Birkland was forced out, Smith eventually scored on a pickoff attempt.
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Malmgren walked three and struck out seven in going the distance. Birkland and Smith had two hits apiece.
Dassel-Cokato 000 000 0 -- 0 2 1
Willmar 002 000 0 -- 2 5 0
HITTING - Dassel-Cokato: Luke Peterson 1-for-3; Lucas Larson 1-for-3 ... Willmar: Mike Dunham 1-for-3; Logan Birkland 2-for-3; Jordan Smith 2-for-3, 2 2b's, rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- DasseVisitor: Jake Hendricks (L) 6-5-2-2-3-5 ... Willmar: Alex Malmgren (W) 7-2-0-0-3-7
Willmar 3, Little Falls 1
Willmar plated two runs in the opening inning; the first on a run-scoring single by Alec Saunders and the second on an error.
Logan Birkland had two hits for Post 169.
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Jacobson hurled the first six innings for the win, allowing four hits and one unearned run, while walking three and striking out two. Smith pitched a perfect seventh inning for the save, striking out two of three batters he faced.
Little Falls 001 000 0 -- 1 4 3
Willmar 200 100 x -- 3 6 1
HITTING - Little Falls: Ben Hanowski 2-for-3; Luke Kalis 1-for-2; Andrew Lang 1-for-2 ... Willmar: Logan Birkland 2-for-3; Jordan Smith 1-for-3; Alec Saunders 1-for-2, rbi; George Jacobson 1-for-2, 2b; Alex Malmgren 1-for-3
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Little Falls: Joe Rydben (L) 6-6-3-1-2-5 ... Willmar: George Jacobson (W) 6-4-1-0-3-2, Jordan Smith (S) 1-0-0-0-0-2
Morris Invite
BOLD went 1-3 at the three-day Morris Legion Invitational, losing 4-2 on Sunday to Cross Lake in the seventh-place game.
In two games on Saturday, BOLD scored a total of 25 runs, but lost both. Eagan beat BOLD 15-14 and Hawley beat BOLD 22-11.
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Shawn Dollerschell homered twice and drove in eight runs in the three games. Kyle Seehusen and Alex Gay also homered. Gay's was a grand slam.
On Friday, BOLD scored four runs in the top of the 10th to edge Morris, 10-8.
Team scores
BOLD 10, Morris 8
Eagan 15, BOLD 14
Hawley 22, BOLD 11
Cross Lake 4, BOLD 2
BOLD composite box
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HITTING - Taylor Wertish 6-for-16, 2b, 3 sb's, 3 rbi; Kyle Seehusen 4-for-16, 2 sb's, 2b, HR, 3 rbi; Shawn Dollerschell 8-for-17, 2b, 2 sb's. 2 HR's, 8 RBI; Dylan Gass 6-for-16 3 2b's, 2 sb's. 4 rbi; Jon Caspers 2-for-4, 2b, rbi; Alex Gay 3-for-11, grand-slam HR, 4 rbi; Jake Boersma 6-for-16, 2 2b's, 3b, 4 rbi; Andy Stevens 3-for-10, 2 rbi; Derek Smith 5-for-12, 4 rbi; Ross Nelson 2-for-14, 2b, 2 rbi; Andrew Brooks 1-for-6
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Jake Boersma 8-9-6-1-4-*, Dylan Gass 6Zc-10-14-7-7-*, Andy Stevens (L) 4Zc-20-19-17-4-*, Shawn Dollerschell (L) 7-9-4-2-2-*, Kyle Seehusen (W, L) 5Zc-10-7-6-5-0
Late result Friday Dassel 12, Litchfield 2
Lucas Larson tossed a two-hitter for Dassel and was backed by an 11-hit attack.
Dassel invoked the 10-run rule, aided by a seven-run fourth inning.
Litchfield 020 00 -- 2 2 1
Dassel 212 7x --12 11 1
HITTING - Litchfield: Alex Sherwood 1-for-2, 2b; Alex Roers 1-for-2, 2b, rbi ... Dassel: Luke Peterson 1-for-2, 2b, rbi; Lucas Larson 2-for-3, 2b, rbi; Jordan Flick 1-for-3; Tyler Zwiebomber 2-for-2, 3b, rbi; Brandon Opsahl 1-for-4, rbi; Jake Hendrickson 2-for-3, 2 rbi; Nick Lingl 2-for-2, 2b, 3 rbi
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PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Litchfield: Alex Sherwood (L) 3Zc-11-12-10-1-0, Alex Roers Xc-0-0-0-2-0 ... Dassel: Lucas Larson (W) 5-2-2-0-2-5
Sacred Heart Invite Paynesville 13, Tri-Town 11
Paynesville trailed 11-10 with two outs and none on in the bottom of the seventh. But consecutive walks brought up No. 3 hitter Shane Kampsen, who belted a walk-off three-run homer. He finished with six RBI. Colin Spooner had three hits and drove in three runs.
Paynesville pitcher Brett Savelkoul went the distance, weathering 19 hits and two walks, while striking out 10 for the win. He also had three hits and scored five times.
For Tri-Town, Jeff Peterson went 5-for-5 and Travis Frederiksen was 4-for-4. Jordan Tanner and Vance Martin had three hits apiece.
Tri-Town 420 121 1 -- 11 19 3
Paynesville 330 203 3 -- 13 10 3
HITTING - Tri-Town: Jordan Tanner 3-for-5, 2 rbi; Jeff Peterson 5-for-5, rbi; Vance Martin 3-for-5, 2 rbi; Travis Frederiksen 4-for-4, rbi; Kyle Schimshock 2-for-4; Tyler Hinkelman 1-for-4; Brooks Maurer 1-for-5, 2 rbi ... Paynesville: Brett Savelkoul 3-for-3, 5 runs, 2 2b's; Colin Spooner 3-for-3, 4 runs, 3 sb's, 3 rbi; Shane Kampsen 2-for-2, 3 runs, 6 rbi, 3-run HR; Nathan Nietfeld 1-for-2, 3 sb's, rbi; Trey Stanger 1-for-4
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PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- Tri-Town: Brooks Maurer, Jordan Tanner (L) ... Paynesville: Brett Savelkoul (W) 7-19-11-9-2-10
Sacred Heart 7, Tri-Town 3
No report was available at press time.
Sacred Heart 12, Paynesville 11
No report was available at press time.
