Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa
Blake Glenz hit a sacrifice fly to center to tie the Eagles baseball team’s game with the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars at 2-2 in the fourth. The score remained this way until the fifth inning when the Jaguars broke the game open with a four-run frame. The Eagles never recovered, as this inning proved to be the difference, in a 6-2 road loss on May 12.
In this four-run fifth inning, the Jaguars posted five hits and batted 10 times.
Offensively, the Eagles finished with just three hits, one each by Riley Geislinger, Lee Dziengel, and Brayden Kramer.
Glenz earned the pitching loss, giving up six runs, four earned, on eight hits, one walk, and one hit batter, and striking out one over four and one-third innings.
Albany
Trailing 1-0 heading into the fifth inning on the road versus the Albany Huskies, the Eagles rallied back to take the lead behind a three-run fifth inning, taking advantage of some Huskies pitching wildness and an error.
The Eagles held this lead until the bottom of the sixth when the Huskies struck back with three of its own runs. Trailing 5-4, the Eagles tied the game in the seventh, but allowed the Huskies to walk it off in the bottom of the inning to fall 5-4 on May 13.
In that three-run Huskies’ sixth inning, a one-out triple and RBI single started the inning. A wild pitch led to the second run, and an RBI single to the third run.
In the top of the seventh, Eli Hernandez led off the inning with an RBI double and came around to score on a Carter Scheeler RBI single, tying the game at 4-4. Scheeler stole second, but the game went to the bottom of the inning still tied after two consecutive strikeouts.
After a leadoff single, passed ball, and sacrifice bunt put a runner at third with one out, the Huskies’ E. Burnett hit the walk-off RBI single.
As a team, the Eagles finished with three hits. Hernandez led the team, going two for three with two runs scored.
Coltant Harff took the loss in relief, giving up one run, unearned, on two hits over one-third of an inning. Gabe Schmitt started the game for the Eagles, giving up four runs, two earned, on six hits and one walk, and striking out five over six innings.
Paynesville Area
Playing its third game in as many days, the Eagles ended its week in dramatic fashion. After giving up two runs in the first inning, the Eagles still trailed the Paynesville Area Bulldogs by this same 2-0 score when it headed to the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Eagles rallied back, scoring three runs, all with two outs and capped by Blake Glenz’s RBI single, to earn the 3-2 come-from-behind, walk-off home win on May 15.
Before this Glenz RBI single, Brayden Kramer drew the Eagles to within one on an RBI single and Brayden Becker followed with a game-tying RBI single, setting up the walk-off hit.
Riley Geislinger earned the win in relief, giving up one hit and striking out one in a scoreless seventh inning. Coltant Harff started the game for the Eagles, giving up two runs on five hits and two walks, and striking out five over six innings.
Offensively, the Eagles posted five hits, with Harff, Lee Dziengel, Kramer, Becker, and Glenz each providing one.