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Baseball roundup: BBE nabs a wild win from Holdingford Huskers

Jaguars beat Holdingford 12-11 in a Central Minnesota Conference game

Baseball roundup
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HOLDINGFORD — The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team won a wild one from the Holdingford Huskers on Wednesday.

BBE beat Holdingford 12-11 in Game 1 of a Central Minnesota Conference game. Holdingford salvaged a split of the doubleheader with an 11-5 win in Game 2.

The Jaguars led the whole way, taking a 9-3 lead into the sixth inning.

Holdingford scored twice in the sixth to tighten it up to 9-5. BBE then got three runs in the top of the seventh to make it 12-5.

But the Huskers weren’t done. They scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh before BBE’s Tayton DeKok got the final out for the save.

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Luke Illies and Casey Lenarz led the Jaguars offensively. Illies went 2-for-3 with a walk, three runs and a triple. Lenarz was 2-for-3 with two doubles, a stolen base, three runs and three RBIs.

For Holdingford, Drew Lange went 4-for-4 with a triple, a hit-by-pitch, a stolen base, three runs and two RBIs.

BBE is now 5-8 in the Central Minnesota Conference and 7-10 overall. Holdingford is 7-6 in conference play and 8-9 overall.

BBE is host to Upsala/Swanville Area at 5 p.m. Thursday at Elrosa in a non-conference game.

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Game 2: Holdingford 11, BBE 5

Holdingford    42\00   000   5-11   16   1
BBE      230   000   0-5   11   1

Hitting - Holdingford: Drew Lange 3-5 r-2 rbi-3 2b 3b, Gavin Johnson 2-5 rbi, Luke Bieniek 2-4 r-2 rbi, Tanner Tomasek 2-4 r-2, Dierks Opatz 2-3 r-2 rbi bb 2b, Chase Lyon 1-3 rbi bb, CJ Clear 2-4 r rbi-3, Jaxson Bartkowicz 1-4 r rbi, Masyn Patrick 1-3 r  … BBE: Stats not available

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - Holdingford: Lyon 4-10-5-5-2-1, David Heinen (W) 3-1-0-0-0-3 … BBE: n/a

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Game 1: BBE 12, Holdingford 11

BBE                 210   240   3-12   10   1
Holdingford      100   022   6-11   14   4

Hitting - BBE: Hayden Sobiech 0-1 r bb, Jordan Herickhoff 0-1 bb-2, Brett DeRoo 1-4 r rbi-2 bb 2b, Tanner Shelton 1-4 r bb, Luke Dingmann 1-4 rbi-2 2b, Luke Illies 2-3 r-3 bb 3b, Casey Lenarz 2-3 r-3 rbi-3 2b-2 sb, Ethan Mueller 1-3 rbi-2 hbp, Tayton DeKok 1-3 r rbi bb, Ryan Jensen 1-4 rbi, B. Braeden Michels 0-0 r-2 … Holdingford: Drew Lange 4-4 r-3 rbi-2 3b hbp sb, CJ Clear 2-5 r rbi-2 2b, Luke Bieniek 1-4 rbi-2 bb 3b, Tanner Tomasek 1-3 r-2 rbi-2 bb-2 hr sb, Dominick Hoika 1-1 2b, Gavin Johnson 2-2 r-2 2b hbp, Chase Lyon 2-3 r-2 rbi-3 bb 2b-2, Masyn Patrick 1-4 r sb

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) - BBE: Dingmann 1.1-3-1-1-0-2, Shelton (W) 5.1-11-10-9-3-5, DeKok (Sv) 0.1-0-0-0-1-0 … Holdingford: Lange (L) 2-1-3-2-2-2, Connor Breth 3-6-5-4-2-1, Jaxson Bartkowicz 2-3-4-4-4-3

Tom Elliott has been the sports editor at the West Central Tribune since September 2019.
Contact him at telliott@wctrib.com or leave a message at 320-235-1150.
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