HURON – The Brookings Bandits swept a legion baseball doubleheader in Huron on Wednesday night.

Brookings won game one 7-5 and then took game two 10-3. The Bandits are now 14-13 on the season and will play a doubleheader at Sioux Falls West on July 9 at 5 p.m.

Game One

Brookings 7, Huron 5

Brookings scored six runs in the final two innings to earn a comeback victory in game one.

The Bandits took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second when Maxten Jensen hit Jon Kahler home with a single. Huron tied the game in the bottom of the inning when Gabe Waldner hit Cooper Bischoff home with a single to make it 1-1.

Huron scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth. Brady Feenstra scored on a Logan Leyendecker single and then Waldner scored on an error to make it 3-1. Leyendecker scored on a wild pitch. Oakley Anderson hit a double and then scored on a double from Anderson Porisch to make it 5-1.

Brookings cut the lead to one in the top of the sixth. Nolan Wagner scored on a passed ball and Jay Harris scored on an error to make it 5-3. Kahler came home on a wild pitch to make it 5-4.

The Bandits then took the lead in the top of the seventh. Wagner came home on a Harris single to tie the game. Kahler then hit Harris and Talon Hyde home with a single to make it 7-5. Huron went down one-two-three in the bottom of the seventh.

Brookings had six hits. Kahler was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Harris was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Jensen was 1-for-3 with an RBI and Wagner was 1-for-1. Winston Plummer was 1-for-3. 

Tyson Antonen pitched the first five innings for the Bandits. He gave up five earned runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and two walks. Kysin Reuer pitched the final two innings and gave up no runs or hits and had two strikeouts and no walks.

Game Two

Brookings 10, Huron 3

Brookings scored seven runs in the first inning and that proved to be the difference in game two.

Christopherson scored the first run of the game for the Bandits as he came home on a Plummer single. Cooper Schneider then scored on a Wagner single and Plummer came home on a Jensen single to make it 3-0. Kahler was then walked with the bases loaded and Harris hit a two-run double. The final run of the inning was when Kahler scored on a sacrifice bunt from Christopherson.

Brookings scored one run in the second and the third. Wagner hit Antonen home with a single in the second and then Christopherson came home on a Schneider triple in the third to make it 9-0.

Huron scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Porisch scored on a ground out from Bischoff then Bubba Peterson scored on a wild pitch to make it 9-2. Peterson then scored on a Bischoff single in the bottom of the sixth to make it 9-3.

The final run of the night for the Bandits came top of the seventh as Kahler scored on a Christopherson ground out.

The Bandits had nine hits as a team. Wagner was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and Harris was 1-for-3 with two RBIs. Jensen and Schneider were each 2-for-4 with an RBI and Plummer was 1-for-5 with an RBI. Antonen was 1-for-4 and Christopherson had two RBIs without a hit. Kahler also had an RBI without a hit.

Breck Wilson pitched the first six innings. He gave up three runs, two earned, on five hits with four strikeouts and three walks. Hyde pitched the final inning and gave up no runs or hits with one walk and no strikeouts.