Prep baseball: CMCS wins a close one

RAYMOND - Jake Meyer went 3-for-4, which included the winning hit, and Austin Bulthuis threw seven solid innings to help the visiting Central Minnesota Christian School Bluejays topple MACCRAY 3-1 in a Camden Conference game Thursday.
The game was scoreless through four innings before Meyer doubled in the fifth and later scored on a passed ball. MACCRAY tied the game in the sixth on a Cheyton Homan double that scored Connor Cronen, who reached after the CMCS catcher dropped a third strike.
The Bluejays responded by scoring twice in the seventh. Mason Dehmlow put CMCS back in front by coming in on Meyer’s double and Meyer later scored on a throwing error.
Bulthuis retired the Wolverines 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the seventh to earn the complete-game win. The senior surrendered just three hits and one walk while striking out five.
Cronen was the hard-luck loser, striking out seven and scattering five hits and three walks in a complete-game outing.
CMCS hosts Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg on Monday and MACCRAY is off until playing at BOLD on Tuesday.
CMCS 3, MACCRAY 1
CMCS 000 010 2 - 3 5 2
MACCRAY 000 001 0 - 1 3 3
HITTING – CMCS: Jake Meyer 3-4 2b r-2 rbi, Tanner Stoel 1-3, Noah Wubben 1-3 … MACCRAY: Jack Dykema 1-3, Connor Cronen 1-3 r, Cheyton Homan 1-3 2b rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - CMCS: Austin Bulthuis (W) 7-3-1-0-1-5 … MACCRAY: Cronen (L) 7-5-3-2-3-7