The Brookings Bombers Black 14U team split a doubleheader against Pierre on Tuesday night.
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PIERRE – The Brookings Bombers Black 14U team split a doubleheader against Pierre on Tuesday night.
It was an entertaining pair of games as the Bombers took game one 10-5 and Pierre outlasted Brookings 14-13 in game two. Brookings is now 11-4 on the season.
The Bombers will be the hosts of the Cubby’s Classic in Brookings this weekend. They’ll open the tournament on Friday at Bob Shelden Field at 9 a.m. against Huron.
Brookings 10, Pierre 5
The Bombers had 15 hits in the first game and that powered them to the victory.
They took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Jude Meendering led off the game with a triple. Ben Schulte followed with a triple of his own to make it 1-0. Nolan Krogman then hit Schulte home with a single.
Brookings added another run in the top of the second. Kooper Henderson led off the inning with a single. He advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Meendering single to make it 3-0.
Pierre took the lead in the bottom of the inning. Their first run of the inning came on an RBI double and then a two-run single tied the game. Another RBI single put Pierre up 4-3 heading into the third.
The Bombers then regained the lead in the top of the third. Baker Hanson and Noah Lease led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Jace Jaacks hit Hanson home with a single and he and Lease then scored on a double from Garrett Wipf, making it 6-4 heading into the bottom of the third.
Brookings pushed the lead to 8-4 in the top of the fourth. Schulte and Krogman led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Hanson then reached on an error to load the bases up with no outs. Henderson came to plate with the bases still loaded with two outs and hit a single. One run scored on the hit and another scored on an error by the second baseman.
The Bombers added two more runs in the fifth. Wipf reached on an error to lead off the inning and Meendering was hit by a pitch to put two runners on. Both runners advanced on a single from Krogman and Wipf scored on a fielder’s choice. Grant Horn then hit Meendering home on a single and Brookings took a six-run lead into the bottom of the fifth.
Pierre scored a run on an RBI single in the bottom of the inning but the Bombers held them scoreless in the sixth and came away with the win.
Wipf went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Krogman was 3-for-5 with an RBI. Henderson was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Horn was 1-for-1 with an RBI. Jaacks was 1-for-2 with an RBI and Lease was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Hanson was 1-for-4 with an RBI.
Lease pitched the first four and two thirds innings for the Bombers. He gave up five earned runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and five walks. Lincoln Helmbolt pitched the final one and a third innings and gave up no runs and no hits with one strikeout and on walk.
Pierre 14, Brookings 13
Brookings scored five runs in the first. Meendering led off the inning with a double. He was hit home on a single from Krogman and Krogman scored on a double from Hanson. Dixon Dauer then hit a two-run triple and an RBI single from Mason Diers made it 5-0.
The Bombers added two more runs in the second. Schulte reached on an error with one out and then scored on an error. Krogman was the one who reached on the second error and he scored on a ground out to make it 7-0.
Pierre scored its first two runs of the game in the third. Back-to-back-to-back singles scored the first run of the inning and then a bases loaded walk made it 7-2 heading into the fourth.
Brookings pushed the lead to 10-2 in the top of the fourth. Schulte led off the inning with a single and then scored on a ground out from Horn. Diers then hit a two-run double to make it an eight-run game.
Pierre then pushed across 10 runs in the bottom of the inning. After the bases were loaded up with no outs, a run on a fielder’s choice and two runs from an error made it 10-6. Two more runs from an error and a bases clearing double made it 11-10. One more run on a wild pitch made it 12-10 heading into the fifth.
Neither team scored in the fifth. Brookings was then able to regain the lead in the top of the sixth. Back-to-back walks and a hit batter loaded the bases with no outs. Jaacks then came to the plate with two outs and ripped a triple to the right fielder and that scored all three runners to give the Bombers the lead heading into the final half inning.
A hit batter, a single and a walk loaded the bases for Pierre with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth. Mason Diers then got a strikeout but a wild pitch scored tied the game. Diers got another strikeout but then gave up a single to right field and the game-winning run came across home plate.
The Bombers had 14 hits as a team. Jaacks was 2-for-2 with three RIBs and Diers was 2-for-4 with three RBIS. Dauer and Krogman were each 1-for-2 with two RBIs. Hanson was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Lease was 1-for-2 with an RBI. Schulte was 1-for-4, Andrew Hove was 1-for-3 and Henderson was 1-for-2.
