DELANO - Litchfield’s Austin Larson held Paynesville in check and the Dragons made three early runs hold up in a 3-1 victory over Paynesville in the Section 5AA-West championship game on Wednesday.
Larson allowed an earned run on four hits, outdueling Paynesville’s Blake Karsch, who allowed two earned and struck out nine.
Paynesville plays Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted at 4:30 p.m. today in Delano while Litchfield is off until Monday when the Dragons play Delano.
Litchfield 3,
Paynesville 1
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Paynesville...............000 000 1 - 1 4 1
Litchfield...................210 000 x - 3 5 2
HITTING – Paynesville: Matt Quade 1-3 2b, Nick Dingmann 1-3 2b, Trent Gertken 1-3 rbi, Austin Mackedanz 1-2 … Litchfield: Cody Klabunde 1-3, Eddie Estrada 2-2 r, Riley Johnson 1-3 r, Braeden Wahl 1-3 rbi, Jake Schultz 0-2 r
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Paynesville: Blake Karsch (L) 6-5-3-2-2-9 … Litchfield: Austin Larson (W) 7-4-1-1-1-6
Section 5A-West
Browerville 11, ACGC 4
Browerville sent 12 batters to the plate and had seven hits in an eight-run first inning to end ACGC’s season.
The big blow was a two-out, three-run double off the bat of Trent Johnson that gave Browerville an 8-0 lead.
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Brett Busskohl, Brody Larson and Jordan Nelson each had two hits for the Falcons, who finish their season 6-12.
ACGC (6-12).............010 020 1 - 4 8 0
Browerville............820 001 x - 11 10 0
HITTING – ACGC: Brett Busskohl 2-4, Jordan Nelson 2-3, 2b, rbi, Mitch Macik 1-4, rbi, Colton Minnick 1-4, rbi, Brody Larson 2-2, 2b, rbi … Browerville: Trent Johnson 4-4, 2b, rbi-3, Cody Lisson 2-3, rbi-2
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - ACGC: David Kinzler (L) 0.1-5-7-7-2-0; Derek Dengerud 5.2-5-4-4-2-3 … Browerville: Corey Sovich (W) 5-6-3-3-3-2; Jackson Wollenburk 2-2-1-1-2-1
Section 3AA
Fairmont 11,
Morris/CA 2
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Fairmont returned to a game suspended by rain on Tuesday with an offensive outburst that all but sealed up a Section 3AA victory over the Tigers on Wednesday.
The game was suspended with Fairmont batting in the bottom of the second inning. In the third, Fairmont scored six runs and pitcher Clayton Maakestad allowed just an unearned run over the final five innings.
Bryce Jergenson, Gage Backman, Riley Biesterfeld and Cory Storck - who tripled in a run - had the Tigers’ four hits.
MCA, now 11-11, plays St. James at 7 p.m. today in Marshall in the section losers bracket.
Morris/CA 101 000 0 - 2 4 2
Fairmont...............306 011 x - 11 11 2
HITTING – Morris/Chokio-Alberta: Bryce Jergenson 1-4 r, Gage Backman 1-3, Riley Biesterfeld 1-3, Corey Storck 1-3 3b rbi … Fairmont: Luke Becker 2-2 hr rbi r, Nathan Gilles 2-2 r-2
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Morris/Chokio-Alberta: Noah Grove (L) 1-2-3-3-2-1, Danny Tracy 1.1-6-6-6-0-0, Shawn Amundson 3.2-3-2-2-5-2 … Fairmont: Becker 2-2-1-1-0-1, Clayton Maakestad (W) 5-2-1-0-0-5
