The St. Patrick Irish and New Prague Orioles earned the final two state tournament berths in the Region 3C baseball tournament over the weekend.
The Region 3C playoffs began Sunday, July 29, and already two teams have qualified for the State Class C baseball tournament, which begins August 17 in New Prague, Shakopee and Jordan.
New Market and Faribault won second round games on Tuesday, July 31, to earn berths in the tournament. Details on those games will be in next week’s issue. Two more teams will earn berths with wins in the double-elimination playoffs on Friday, Aug. 3.
The Montgomery Mallards and Union Hill Bulldogs won their Region 3C playoff games Wednesday, Aug. 1, and are each one win away from a state tournament berth.
The final two spots for the State Class C Tournament from Region 3C will be determined Friday, Aug. 3, with a pair of elimination games. St. Patrick will travel to Montgomery for an 8 p.m. game and New Prague is at Union Hill for a 7:30 p.m. game.
Montgomery defeated Shakopee 3-2 in an elimination game Wednesday, while Union Hill beat St. Benedict 10-7.
The New Market Muskies and Faribault Lakers became the first two Region 3C teams to qualify for the State Class C Baseball Tournament with wins Tuesday evening.
In Veseli, the Muskies took a 2-0 lead in their game against New Prague, but the Orioles’ Eric Wagner belted a two-run home run to tie it. Nick Rost put the Muskies back on top with a solo home run and they Fish registered a 3-2 win.
In Prior Lake, St. Patrick took an early lead, but Faribault stormed back for a 6-2 win. Jack Helgeson had complete game win for the Lakers.
DRS playoffs
Game Friday, July 27
Shakopee 7, Prior Lake 3 (Shakopee wins series 2-1)
Region playoffs
Sunday, July 29
Double elimination, first round
New Market 8, Shakopee 2
New Prague 13, Montgomery 3
Faribault 10, Union Hill 5
St. Patrick 7, St. Benedict 3
Tuesday, July 31
Winners bracket, winners go to state
New Prague vs. New Market, 8 p.m. at Veseli
Faribault vs. St. Patrick, 7:30 p.m. at Prior Lake
Wednesday, Aug. 1
Elimination games
Results Thursday, July 26
Montgomery 13, Lonsdale 11 (Montgomery wins series 2-0)
Faribault 11, Webster 1 (Faribault wins series 2-0)
St. Benedict 10, Veseli 9 (St. Benedict wins series 2-0)
Shakopee 11, Prior Lake 5 (Series tied 1-1)
Game Friday, July 27
Shakopee at Prior Lake, 7:30 p.m.
Region 3C First round,
Sunday, July 29
Montgomery vs. New Prague, 2 p.m. in Veseli
Faribault at Union Hill, 2 p.m.
The Dakota-Rice-Scott baseball league regular season concluded Sunday, July 22, and the final standings have New Market, St. Patrick, Union Hill and New Prague earning byes into the Region 3C Tournament. Eight other teams will play best-of-three series this week for the other four spots in the region tournament, which will be a double-elimination affair beginning Sunday, July 29.
The Dakota-Rice-Scott Baseball League concluded its 2018 regular season Sunday, July 22, and teams are now preparing for the league and Region 3C playoffs.
New Market, St. Patrick, Union Hill and New Prague were the top four teams, in order, in the leagues standings. Those four teams earn a bye into the regional playoffs.
With less than a week remaining in the regular season, New Market and St. Patrick have clinched berths in the Region 3C playoffs and New Prague and Union Hill are in the driver’s seat for the remaining two automatic berths. Montgomery, St. Benedict and Faribault are still in the hunt, but need to win multiple games over the season’s final days to claim a bye into the playoffs.
The past week saw some outstanding individual performances in the Dakota- Rice-Scott League. Veseli’s Mike Bartusek went 5-for-6 in a loss to Lonsdale, Mike Flicek and Eric Iverson both had four hits for Montgomery in a win over Shakopee, Derek Masberg threw a three-hit shutout as Union Hill defeated Prior Lake, while Prior Lake’s Cole Bjorge had four hits, including two doubles, and four RBIs in a win over Webster. Riley Ahern threw a one-hit shutout in New Market’s 3-0 win over New Prague, negating a three-hit, 12-strikeout performance by the Orioles’ Nathan Sprouls.
The Dakota Rice Scott Baseball League has announced its All-Star Game Roster.
The DRS team will face off against the River Valley League All-Stars at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 14. at Fairfax.
The two leagues have met annually since 2007 for an All-Star game. The RVL has a 7-3 advantage, with one rain out (2008). The RVL won last year’s contest, 7-6.
DRS Team members chosen by league managers are:
Elko Express - TJ Evanson, Grant Gunderson, Dylan Thomas
Faribault Lakers - Egan Bonde and player TBA
Lonsdale Aces - Thomas Hoppert
New Market became the first Dakota-Rice-Scott League team to clinch a firstround playoff bye with a pair of wins, and the rest of the league battled to keep pace as the regular season winds down.
There are three weekends remaining in the season, which concludes July 22. Four league teams will get byes into the Region 3C tournament, while the eight remaining teams will play for the final four spots.
The New Market Muskies continued to roll through the competition, winning four games in decisive fashion in Dakota-Rice-Scott League play. The Muskies are now 15- 1 in the league and have a 3- 1/2 game lead over second place St. Patrick, which won twice. Faribault also had a pair of wins last week and are in third place. New Prague drops to fourth, losing their only game of the week in extra innings. The Orioles did take second in the Green Isle-Hamburg Tournament over the weekend, while Elko won three games to take the championship in Hinckley.
New Market continues to roll in DRS League play, as they sit alone at the top of the League standings. They are winners of 8-straight League games, and beat second place St. Patrick this past week to take a 2 game lead in the standings.
A bit of parity within the League exists, as at week’s end, no team (other than New Market) has a winning or losing streak longer than 2 games.
Game results
A group of trap shooters from Tri-City United High School are making their way back to the state tournament to be held on Friday, June 22 at the Minneapolis Gun Club.
The team of Wyatt Hurd, Benjamin Sladek, Grant Fogarty, Wyley Petersen, and James Krautkremer made the tournament after placing in the top 40 teams overall. Their scores were determined from the Alexandria Championship from June 11 to 19. Overall season averages were used as tie breakers.
New Market defeated Prior Lake and Lonsdale to take over first place in the Dakota- Rice-Scott League last week. The Muskies have a 9-1 record and hold a one-game lead over second place St. Patrick.
It was a light week for the DRS, with several teams competing in weekend tournaments and other games rained out.
Last week’s results