BELLE FOURCHE – Clark-Willow Lake scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning and made it stand up in a 5-1 win over Mount Vernon-Plankinton in an American Legion baseball tournament in Belle Fourche.
Jakob Steen drove in one run and stole home for another in the pivotal inning. CWL also scored runs on a wild pitch and an error.
Watson Grantham struck out seven batters in three innings of work on the mound.
Mount Vernon-Plankinton 000 010 0 – 1 7 5
Clark-Willow Lake 400 001 x – 5 4 2
Paxton Nedved and Tyce Feistner; Watson Grantham, Cooper Pommer (4) and Caleb Drenth. 2B – Mount Vernon-Plankinton, Walker Van Gorp.
