Baseball journal: One run too many in loss to Morris

Morris/CA 1, YME 0

Yellow Medicine East lost in a pitchers duel Tuesday night with Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta nipping them 1-0 at Richter Field.

YME’s Austin Thorstad finished the game allowing just five hits, while his counterpart Sam Mattson dealt a four hitter.

The only runner crossing the plate was in the top of the third. Tanner Picht’s hard double into the wind coming over the right-field wall scored Bryce Jergeson, who had walked, from second base.

YME had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth but Mattson got a double-play ball to end the inning.

Morris/CA  001 000 0 — 1 5 2

YME           000 000 0 — 0 4 0

HITTING

Morris/Chokio-Alberta: Tanner Picht 2-for-2, 2b, rbi; Chandler Erickson 1-for-3, Tom Holland 1-for-3, Tyler Henrichs 1-for-2

Yellow Medicine East: Brandon Grund 1-for-3, Devon Dyrdahl 1-for-3, Austin Thorstad 2-for-3

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)

Morris/Chokio-Alberta: Sam Mattson (W) 7-4-0-0-4-7

Yellow Medicine East: Austin Thorstad 7-5-1-1-4-5

Game one

YME 10, ACGC 0

Yellow Medicine East captured two wins in a double header Thursday against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City at Richter Field.

Yellow Medicine won Game One 10-0 and Game Two 12-2. Both games ended after six innings.

YME’s Aaron Zieske had a home run among his three hits, he drove in three runs and scored four times while also picking up the pitching win in Game One. Zieske allowed just two hits, a walk and he struck out nine.

In the second game, YME scored six runs in the fourth inning to erase a 2-1 ACGC lead.

Austin Thorstad had two hits and drove in a pair of runs, and Elliot Carmany had a hit and four RBIs. Reishus had a hit and drove in two runs.

YME            311 023 — 10 7 1

ACGC             000 000 — 0 2 3

HITTING

Yellow Medicine East: Brandon Grund 1-for-3, Aaron Zieske 3-for-4 hr rbi-3 r-4, Ryan Reishus 3-for-4 rbi-4

ACGC: Jordan Nelson (so.) 1-for-3 2b, Trever Heining 1-for-3

PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)

Yellow Medicine East: Zieske (W) 6-2-0-0-1-9

ACGC: Heining (L) 5.2-7-10-7-5-6, Nick Peterson 0.1-0-0-0-0-1

Game two

YME 12, ACGC 2

Yellow Medicine East came out on top in game two of the double header with a 12-2 victory.

ACGC             100 100 — 2 5 4

YME             010 614 — 12 5 1

HITTING

ACGC: Jordan Nelson (so.) 1-for-4 2b, Heining 1-for-2, Jordan Nelson (jr.) 1-for-1, Kris Torkelson 1-for-2 rbi, David Kinsler 1-for-3

Yellow Medicine East: Austin Thorstad 2-for-3 rbi-2, Aaron Zieske 1-for-2 2b, Ryan Reishus 1-for-2 rbi-2, Elliot Carmany 1-for-3 rbi-4