ELY - The Madison Legion team defeated Ely, a prep state tournament team, in the semifinals on Saturday, then defeated Deer River 7-3 on Sunday to win the DQ Grill and Chill Classic tournament.
Madison opened the tournament with a victory over Minnetonka on Friday, then defeated Ely in nine innings and Brookston on Saturday.
In the title game, Daniel Baldwin picked up the win and Austin Haas and Brandon Hill both drove in a pair of runs.
Garrett Olson and Austin Domeier both had two hits and also had RBIs.
In the key semifinals game against Ely, the teams were tied 3-3 through eight innings. In the top of the ninth, Dylan Lillejord broke the knot with a two-run triple and Olson then singled in Lillejord, who also got the win.
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Against Brookston, Olson worked a complete game, allowing six hits and striking out five.
Hill had three hits and drove in two runs and Ty Kanstrup singled in two runs. Cole Bungarden and Haas both had two hits.
Madison plays host to Montevideo at 7 p.m. today.
Championship game
Madison 7, Deer River 3
Deer River................000 001 2 - 3 8 2
Madison...................211 102 x - 7 9 1
HITTING – Deer River: Jeffery Moore 3-4 rbi-2, Aaron Trotts 2-3 … Madison: Austin Haas 2-3 rbi-2, Brandon Hill 2-4 2b rbi-2, Garrett Olson 1-2 rbi, Ty Kanstrup 1-3, Jon Nielsen 1-3, Austin Domeier 2-2 3b rbi
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PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Deer River: Spencer Gibbets (L) 6-9-7-5-5-2 … Madison: Daniel Baldwin (W) 7-8-3-3-1-3
Saturday’s Result
Semifinals
Semifinals
Madison 7, Ely 5
Madison.............002 010 004 - 7 10 4
Ely.......................000 030 002 - 5 6 5
HITTING – Madison: Haas 4-5, Hill 1-4, Dylan Lillejord 2-4 rbi-3, Olson 2-4 rbi-2, Domeier 1-4 … Ely: Max Gantz 2-5, Kyle Durbin 2-5
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PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Madison: Lillejord (W) 8-5-3-3-5-7, Domeier 1-1-2-0-2-1 … Ely: Gantz (L) 9-10-7-2-2-7
Quarterfinals
Madison 8, Brookston 1
Madison..................100 022 3 - 8 12 0
Brookston.................000 000 1 - 1 6 1
HITTING – Madison: Haas 2-4, Hill 3-5 rbi-2, Lillejord 1-5 rbi, Olson 1-3 2b rbi, Kanstrup 1-4 rbi-2, Cole Bungarden 3-3 2b-2, Nielsen 1-4 rbi … Brookston: Zach Johnson 2-4 rbi, Christian Motle 1-2 2b
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Madison: Olson (W) 7-6-1-1-1-5 … Brookston: Drew Janke 4.2 2-2-2-2-6
Willmar 4,
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Tri-City Blue 3
The Willmar Legion team won its final game in the St. Cloud Chutes Tournament, downing the Tri-City Blues of St. Anthony Village.
Willmar had just three hits but took advantage of TCB mistakes to score runs in the first, second, fourth and fifth innings.
Tri-City Blue.............000 021 0 - 3 5 0
Willmar.....................110 110 x - 4 3 2
HITTING – Tri-City Blue: Kroening 1-3 r, Garner 1-3 r … Willmar: Tyler Stegeman 1-3, Austin Smith 1-3, Cole Christenson 1-3 rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Tri-City Blue: Schaffer (L) … Willmar: Josh Warne (W) 7-5-3-3-0-0
Late Friday
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Colorado 115s 6,
Montevideo 0
A tough second inning was too much to overcome for Montevideo, which lost to the 115s of Colorado in the Battle of Omaha tournament on Friday.
Jeff Rohloff took the loss against a hard-hitting 115s lineup and he also had a hit.
Austin Hiepler, Ricky Schmitz and Tristan Weber had Monte’s other hits.
115s...........................050 100 0 - 6 9 1
Montevideo..............000 000 0 - 0 4 1
HITTING – 115s: not available … Montevideo: Jeff Rohloff 1-3, Austin Hiepler 1-2, Ricky Schmitz 1-2, Tristan Weber 1-2
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PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - 115s: not available … Montevideo: Rohloff (L) 7-9-6-5-5-4
