BROOKINGS – The Bombers Black swept Sioux Falls West in a doubleheader Monday evening at Mickelson Field, winning 4-3 and then 4-1 in four innings.
Brookings (18-12) is host to Yankton for another DH today at 4 p.m.
Game 1
• Brookings 4, Sioux Falls West 3
Addison Ronning and Griffen Bartels had back-to-back RBI singles in the bottom of the seventh to lift the Bombers Black.
Austin Clark singled with one out to get it going and Nolan Miles reached on an error. Ronning’s hit tied it and Bartels followed with the walkoff.
Miles finished 3-for-4 with a double to lead a 13-hit attack.
Owen Schneider (double), Bartels and Ronning added a pair of hits apiece.
Sam Johnson (RBI), Breck Hirrschoff and David Brink singled.
Schneider pitched six solid innings, allowing two runs on four hits with five strikeouts and four walks.
Bartels gave up one run on a hit and a walk in one-third of an inning. Brink, who was credited with the win, got the final two outs, including one via strikeout.
BROOKINGS 4, SIOUX FALLS WEST 3
S.F. West 000 110 1 – 3 5 2
Brookings 000 200 2 – 4 13 3
Game 2
• Brookings 4, Sioux Falls West 1 (4 inn.)
Hirrschoff went 2-for-2 with a homer, a double, two RBIs and two runs scored to help the Bombers Black win the weather-shortened contest.
Tate Helmbolt drove in a run and Bartels and Johnson chipped in with hits.
Miles pitched all four innings, surrendering just one run on a pair of hits with six strikeouts and a walk.
BROOKINGS 4, SIOUX FALLS WEST 1 (4 inn.)
S.F. West 100 0 – 1 2 1
Brookings 201 1 – 4 4 0
