SIOUX FALLS – The Brookings softball team went 3-1 at a tournament at Sherman Park over the weekend. The Bobcats beat Harrisburg, Brandon Valley and Sioux Falls Roosevelt and fell to Sioux Falls Washington.

Brookings is now 9-2 on the season and hosts O’Gorman today at 4 p.m. The Bobcats are in third place in the Class AA standings with five games left in the regular season.

Friday

• Brookings 1, Harrisburg 0

The lone run of the game came in the fifth inning as Kylie Moe hit an inside the park home run and the Bobcats took down the second place Tigers (11-2) in the first game of the tournament.

Brookings had four hits in the game. Moe and Sydney Bebensee each went 1-for-2. Tess Burns and Gracie Adamson each went 1-for-3.

Adamson pitched a complete game and gave up five hits. She had nine strikeouts and no walks.

• Brookings 5, Brandon Valley 3

The Bobcats led 5-0 going into the final inning and held on for the win.

Brookings got the scoring going with one run in the bottom of the second. Adamson led off the inning with a double and then scored on a Moe ground out.

The Bobcats would then strike for four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Ava Sandine and Morgan Norgaard led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Kymber Buys then hit a double to left field and Sandine scored. Morgan Linstad followed that with a double over own and that scored both Norgaard and Buys to make it 4-0. The final run of the inning came from a sacrifice fly form Burns, making it 5-0 heading into the seventh.

Brandon Valley (6-4) was able to push across three runs in the seventh, but Moe came in and got out of a jam and ended the game with back-to-back ground outs.

Linstad was 1-for-3 with two RBIs and Buys was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Norgaard was 2-for-3 and Sandine was 1-for-2.

Burns pitched the first six innings and gave up three runs, two earned, on four hits with four strikeouts and three walks. Moe pitched the final inning and gave up no runs on one hit with one strikeout and no walks.

Saturday

• Sioux Falls Washington 4, Brookings 1

Each team had seven hits, but the Bobcats had three errors to the Warriors three. The Warriors (9-3) scored their first run on an error in the first inning. They then scored a run in the third on a single and two more runs in the fifth on back-to-back singles.

Brookings lone run of the game came in the sixth inning. Adamson walked and Burns followed that with a triple to left field. The Bobcats got two runners on in the final inning but were unable to do anything with it.

Burns was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Sandine and Moe were each 1-for-2 and Buys and Bebensee were each 1-for-3. Madison Pantzke was 1-for-1.

Adamson pitched a complete game and gave up four runs, two earned, on seven hits with eight strikeouts and no walks.

• Brookings 10, Sioux Falls Roosevelt 2

The Bobcats led 7-2 after three innings and didn’t look back as they finished the tournament with a blowout win.

The Rough Riders scored a run in the top of the first inning after a pair of errors from Brookings. The Bobcats responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning. The bases were loaded with one out after an error, a single and a hit batter. Burns then hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game.

Brookings then took the lead with five runs in the second. Norgaard hit an RBI triple and two batters later Linstad hit a two-run single to make it 4-1. Layla Erickson then scored on a Burns ground out and the ‘Cats scored one more run on an error to make it 6-1 heading into the third.

Roosevelt scored a run in the top of the third on a ground out, but the Bobcats got the run back right away in the bottom of the inning when Megan Wadsworth hit an RBI single.

Brookings added two more runs in the fifth inning. Adamson hit a sacrifice fly and Bebensee hit an RBI single to make it 9-2. The final run of the game came in the sixth inning when Sandine hit an RBI triple.

The Bobcats had 10 hits in the game. Linstad went 1-for-4 with two RBIs. Sandine and Wadsworth each went 1-for-1 with an RBI. Norgaard went 1-for-3 with an RBI, Adamson went 1-for-2 with an RBI and Bebensee went 1-for-4 with an RBI.

Moe pitched another complete game. She gave up two runs, one earned, on three hits with six strikeouts and no walks.