The Brookings Bombers Black 14U team continued to stay hot as they swept Sioux Falls Post 15 in a doubleheader at Bob Shelden Field on Wednesday afternoon.
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BROOKINGS — The Brookings Bombers Black 14U team continued to stay hot as they swept Sioux Falls Post 15 in a doubleheader at Bob Shelden Field on Wednesday afternoon.
The Bombers won the first game 13-3 in five innings and followed that with a 9-4 victory in game two.
Brookings is now 23-5 on the season and has won 12 of its past 13 games. The Bombers will finish the week with a doubleheader at Harrisburg on Friday night that starts at 5 p.m.
Sioux Falls hung around for the first two innings but five runs in both the third and fourth inning allowed the Bombers to win via the 10-run rule in five innings.
Sioux Falls took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Batters reached on an error and a single with one out and one came home on a passed ball and another on a single. Brookings answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning.
Nolan Krogman hit a one-out triple and then scored on a sacrifice fly from Baker Hanson. Ben Schulte then hit a double and Noah Lease and Dixon Dauer walked to load the bases up with two outs. Schulte and Lease then came home on an error and it was 3-2 Brookings heading into the second.
Neither team scored in the second and Brookings took an 8-2 lead in the third. Hanson led off the inning with a single and Schulte followed with a triple to send him home. Lease then knocked Schulte home with a single and Dauer hit Lease home with a triple to make it 6-2. Kooper Henderson then hit an RBI double and Jude Meendering hit an RBI single to make it 8-2 heading into the fourth.
The Bombers added five more in the bottom of the fourth. Hanson led off the inning with a single and Schulte followed with a double. Lease then hit both runners home with a single to make it 10-2. Lease scored on an error and Dauer scored on a ground out to make it 12-2. Garret Wipf then hit an RBI single to make it 13-2 and the Bombers needed to hold Sioux Falls under two runs in the top of the fifth to win the game and they did just that.
Brookings had 14 hits in the game as a team. Lease was 2-for-2 with three RBIs and Henderson was 1-for-3 with two RBIs. Schulte was 3-for-4 with an RBI and Hanson was 2-for-2 with an RBI. Dauer was 1-for-1 with an RBI and Wipf was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Meendering was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Krogman was 2-for-4.
Lease pitched all five innings for the Bombers. He gave up three runs, one earned, on six hits with seven strikeouts and no walks.
It was another steady performance for the Bombers offense in game two and seven errors from Sioux Falls helped Brookings get the win in game two as well.
The Bombers led 2-0 at the end of the first. Krogman hit a one-out single and advanced to second on an error. Schulte then hit a single and Krogman made his way home after an error from the center fielder. Schulte scored as well on the play as there was another error.
Sioux Falls got one run back in the top of the second on an RBI single, but the Bombers pushed the lead back to two in the bottom of the inning. Dauer hit a one-out single and then stole second. He advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a ground out from Jace Jaacks to make it 3-1 heading into the third.
The Bombers added two more runs in the third. Meendering reached on an error with one out and made his way all the way to third on the play. He then scored on a sacrifice bunt from Krogman. Hanson and Schulte then hit back-to-back singles and Hanson scored on an error to make it 5-1.
Sioux Falls scored a run on a bases loaded walk in the top of the fourth but that was all they could push across. Brookings then made it 7-2 in the fifth.
Krogman walked to begin the bottom of the fifth and Hanson followed with a single to put runners on the corners. Krogman scored on a sacrifice fly from Schulte and Hanson came home on a ground out from Lease to make it 7-2.
Andrew Hove then walked to begin the sixth and Meendering hit him home with a triple. Meendering scored on the play as well as there was an error by the center fielder and that put the Bombers up 9-2 heading into the final inning.
Sioux Falls had its first two batters of the seventh reach on a single and an error. The first runner came home on a single and they scored another run on a fielder’s choice to make it 9-4 with two outs. Lincoln Helmbolt was then able to get the next batter to pop up and that gave the Bombers the win.
The Bombers had 11 hits in the victory. Schulte was 3-for-3 with an RBI and Krogman was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Jaacks was 1-for-3 with an RBI and Meendering was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Hanson was 2-for-4 and Dauer was 1-for-2. Mason Diers and Grant Horn were each 1-for-3. Lease had an RBI without a hit.
Horn got the start on the mound and pitched the first six innings. He gave up two runs, one earned, on six hits with three strikeouts and one walk. Helmbolt got the last three outs and gave up two runs, one earned, on two hits.
