Legion baseball roundup: Top-seeded Glenwood-Lowry advances past BBE

Jul. 16—Top-seeded Glenwood-Lowry advanced in the DII West Central Sub-State North/East bracket with a win over fifth-seeded Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa at Marthaler Field in Glenwood.

Torii Johnson was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs for Glenwood-Lowry. Jack Larson was 1-for-4 and also scored a pair of runs and drove in two more. Jacob Blair scored twice and was the winning pitcher. He struck out five in a complete game.

Brett DeRoo, Casey Lenarz and Ethan Mueller each had hits for BBE.

BBE 200 000 0-2 3 4

Glenwood-Lowry 302 200 x-7 5 0

Hitting — BBE: Brett DeRoo 1-4 r, Casey Lenarz 1-3 rbi-2, Ethan Mueller 1-3, Luke Illies 0-2 r bb ... Glenwood-Lowry: Jacob Blair 1-4 r-2 sb, Torii Johnson 2-4 r-2 sb, Dylan Alexander 1-4 rbi sb, Jack Larson 1-4 r-2 rbi-2 sb, Jack Majerus 0-2 r bb sb

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — BBE: Talen Kampsen (L) 6-5-7-3-4-5 ... Glenwood-Lowry: Blair (W) 7-3-2-2-5-5

The top seed in the DII West Central Sub-State South/Central bracket, Kerkhoven advanced with a victory against No. 4 Morris at Kerkhoven.

Second-seeded Madison defended its home field, beating No. 3 Granite Falls in the DII West Central Sub-State South/Central bracket.

Madison will play Kerkhoven at 5 p.m. Saturday in Granite Falls. The winner will get the North/Central's No. 1 seed in the sub-state final four.

Redwood Falls held BOLD to two hits in a five-inning victory in a DII Central Sub-State South Pod elimination game at Redwood Falls.

Ethan Louwagie got the win for Redwood Falls after striking out seven with no walks over five innings. Seven different Redwood Valley players got hits in the game.

Lane Osterfeld and Sam Sigurdson accounted for both of the Mudhens' hits. Sigurdson also took the loss after tossing the first two innings.

Redwood Falls will face Sacred Heart/MACCRAY for the South Pod championship Saturday in Sacred Heart.

BOLD 000 00-0 2 5

Redwood Falls 244 1x-11 7 0

Hitting — BOLD: Lane Osterfeld 1-2, Sam Sigurdson 1-1 2b ... Redwood Falls: Ethan Louwagie 1-2, Gavin Brandt 1-3 rbi, Riley Dikken 1-3 rbi-2, Brandon Lang 1-3 rbi, Max Fuhr 1-3, Tyson Irlbeck 1-3 rbi, Austin Gunderson 1-2 2b

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — BOLD: Sigurdson (L) 2-4-6-4-1-1, Tate Sheehan 0-1-4-3-2-0, Jack Gross 2-1-1-0-1-2 ... Redwood Falls: Louwagie (W) 5-2-0-0-0-7

Albany clawed back from a 4-0 first-inning deficit to beat New London-Spicer in a DII Central Sub-State Central Pod elimination game at Farming.

Tanner Reis finished 3-for-4 with a run for Albany. Zeke Austin and Elliott Burnett each were 2-for-3, with Burnett scoring twice in the victory.

Grant Paffrath went 3-for-4 with a pair of stolen bases for NLS. Carson McCain drove in a pair of runs, finishing 1-for-4.

NLS 400 000 0-4 9 4

Albany 120 300 x-6 10 2

Hitting — NLS: Aedan Andresen 1-4 2b r rbi, Chi Schneider 2-3 2b r rbi bb, Riley Lessman 2-4 r, Carson McCain 1-4 rbi-2, Grant Paffrath 3-4 sb-2, Luke Knudsen 0-4 r ... Albany: Zeke Austin 2-3 r rbi bb, Brandon Holm 1-3 rbi-2 sf, Tanner Reis 3-4 r, Izaac Hutchinson 1-4 2b rbi, Devin Hansen 1-3 bb, Elliott Burnett 2-3 2b r-2, Ethan Meyer 0-3 r rbi sf, Carson Holthaus 0-4 r

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — NLS: McCain (L) 4-8-6-3-1-2, Gabe Rohman 1.1-1-0-0-1-1, Reid Holmquist 0.2-1-0-0-1-0 ... Albany: Jake Lauer (W) 5-7-4-3-2-7, Drew Cramlet (Sv) 2-2-0-0-0-1

In the DII Central Sub-State East Pod, Eden Valley-Watkins advanced to the championship after beating Litchfield in an elimination game in Watkins.