Tri-County News

Clippers win in shut-out over Gussies


By Jean Doran Matua, Editor

For their final regular-season game of 2021, the Watkins Clippers traveled to the St. Augusta Gussies. Pitchers Justin Tompson and Dan Berg shut out the Gussies from a single hit, and the Clippers won the game early at 14-0.

Justin Tompson hit a three-run homer in the second inning and a single for 4 RBI to lead the Clippers at bat. Carter Block hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning plus a double. Dan Berg hit a double and a single; and Lincoln Haugen, Kevin Kramer, and Carson Geislinger each hit a double. Brendan Ashton hit 3 singles for 1 RBI.

Justin Tompson earned the win for the Clippers, pitching 6 innings. He allowed all 6 of the Gussies’ hits, but he also struck out
5 and walked 1. Dan Berg pitched their final inning, continuing the shut-out while striking out 2 in his 1 inning on the mound.

Aaron Fruth was tagged with the loss. He allowed 8 runs on 9 hits (including 2 home runs)during his 5 innings pitching; he struck out 5 and walked 2. Dusty Schulzetenberg pitched 1/3 inning and allowed 5 runs on 2 hits while committing 5 errors. James Anderson finished up the game, limiting the Clippers to 1 additional run on 2 hits.

All 6 Gussies hits were singles, spread among 6 players.

CVL playoffs begin this coming weekend. In the first match-up, in the North division, #1 -Watkins will host #4 St. Nicholas at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 24. The winner of this game will play either #3 St. Augusta or #2 Kimball at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 31, at the highest seed. (See playoff schedule below.)

WATKINS AB R H BI

Nolan Geislinger 4 1 0 0

Lincoln Haugen 4 0 1 3

  Myles Dziengel 0 0 0 0

Kevin Kramer 5 1 1 2

Dan Berg 5 2 2 0

Carter Block 4 3 2 3

Brendan Ashton 5 1 3 1

Matt Geislinger 2 2 1 0

  Gavin Mathies 1 0 0 0

Justin Tompson 2 2 2 4

Carson Geislinger 3 2 1 0

Heath Kramer – – – –

TOTALS 35 14 13 13

ST. AUGUSTA AB R H BI

Marcus Lommel 3 0 0 0

D. Schulzetenberg 3 0 1 0

Aaron Fruth 2 0 1 0

Nate Gwost 3 0 0 0

Nate Laudenbach 3 0 1 0

James Anderson 3 0 1 0

Michael Laudenbach 3 0 1 0

Michael Mooney 3 0 0 0

Gage Zastrow 2 0 1 0

TOTALS 25 0 6 0

R H E

Clippers 0 5 0  3 0 6  0 x x 14 13 0

Gussies 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 x x   0   6 2

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