MILBANK – Groton moved into the championship game of the Region 1B American Legion Baseball Tournament on Wednesday thanks to a 6-2 victory over Milbank.
Groton is the lone unbeaten team in the tourney and will face Sisseton in the title game today after Sisseton eliminated Milbank later in the day. Sisseton also eliminated Claremont earlier in the afternoon.
Groton scored three runs in the third inning, two on Gavin Englund’s double, and another on an RBI single by TC Schuster. Carter Simon had a pair of RBI singles for two of Groton’s other three runs.
TC Schuster tossed a complete-game three-hitter and struck out six batters.
Alex Abeln led the Groton offense with three hits. Simon and Nick Groeblinghoff each finished with two.
Milbank 000 200 0 – 2 3 2
Groton 003 102 x – 6 10 5
Aiden Kelly and Tyler Heinje; TC Schuster and Karsten Fliehs. 2B – Groton, Gavin Englund.
Sisseton 12, Claremont 4
Claremont 101 100 1 – 4 4 6
Sisseton 260 301 x – 12 9 6
Rennan Bruns, Nick Cutler (3) and C. Cutler; Bryan Hanson, Levi Nelson (7) and Rylan Anderson. 2B – Claremont, Kassen Keough.
NOTE: Kellen Rempp, LJ Crooks, and Bradley Hansen each had two hits to lead Sisseton, and Max Dahlen drove in three runs. Kassen Keough had two hits, including a double, for Claremont.
Sisseton 10, Milbank 3
Milbank 000 003 0 – 3 5 4
Sisseton 000 514 x – 10 8 1
Mack Kopplin, Bennett Hunt (4) and Tyler Heinje; Bradley Hansen and M. Rempp. 2B – Milbank, Kopplin.
NOTE: Levi Nelson had three hits and Bryan Hanson had two to lead Sisseton.
REGION 6B AT WEBSTER
WEBSTER – Volga remained unbeaten with a 3-1 win over Britton in Region 6B action on Wednesday. Volga will face Clark-Willow Lake in the title game, which eliminated both Lake Norden-Badger and Britton on the day. Volga handed Clark-Willow Lake its only loss in the opening round on Tuesday.
Volga allowed just one first-inning run before silencing Britton the rest of the way. Colton Chapin had a pair of hits for Britton.
Clark-Willow Lake collected 23 runs and 24 hits in its two wins on the day.
Cooper Pommer had six hits, three in each contest for CWL.
Britton 100 000 0 – 1 4 3
Volga 120 000 x – 3 6 0
Kaden Mills and Colton Chapin; Cooper Teske and Regan Schwartz. 2B – Volga, Braden Danzeisen, Kellon Tucker.
Clark-Willow Lake 13, Lake Norden-Badger 2
Clark-Willow Lake 002 623 – 13 14 1
Lake Norden-Badger 000 101 – 2 3 4
Max Bratland, Talen Huber (6) and Ky Vandersnick; Teague Stevenson, Eric Schultz (5) and Schultz.
NOTE: Cooper Pommer and Jakob Steen each had hits for Clark-Willow Lake. Max Bratland struck out six batters.
Clark-Willow Lake 10, Britton 2
Britton 000 00 – 0 2 2
Clark-Willow Lake 213 13 – 10 10 0
Mitch Burger, E. Symens (4) D. Redler (4) and Colton Chapin; Charlie Luvaas and Jakob Steen.
NOTE: Cooper Pommer and Watson Grantham each had three hits for Clark-Willow Lake. Charlie Luvaas threw a two-hitter, striking out six batters.
