BROOKINGS — The Brookings Bombers Black 14U baseball team split a doubleheader with Renner, winning the first game 10-0 and losing the second game 5-2 at Bob Shelden Field on Tuesday evening.

The Bombers are now 21-5 on the season and will host a doubleheader with Sioux Falls Post 15 at Bob Shelden Field in Brookings on Wednesday beginning at 12 p.m.

Game 1: Brookings 10, Renner 0

The Bombers used a fast start and a strong outing by Baker Hanson to win the first game of the doubleheader 10-0 in five innings.

Jude Meendering started a Brookings rally by leading off the bottom of the third with a single and advancing to second on a wild pitch. Nolan Krogman struck out for the first out of the inning but Meendering scored on an RBI single by Hanson for the first run of the game.

Some heads-up baserunning helped Hanson advance to second base on the throw to home plate and Ben Schulte cashed in with an RBI single in the following at-bat to give the Bombers a 2-0 lead.

The advantage held up as the Bombers entered the bottom of the third inning. Lease led off with a single and Kooper Henderson drew a one-out walk before both runners advanced to second and third base on a double steal.

Grant Horn took advantage, driving both runners home on a two-run single. Horn advanced to second base on a passed ball in the following at-bat and scored on a two-out double by Meendering to put the Bombers up 5-0.

Brookings mounted another rally in the bottom of the fourth inning, scoring a run on a Henderson single, Dixon Dauer’s steal of home and a balk by Renner pitcher B Bloom. 

The Bombers put the finishing touches on the win in the bottom of the fifth inning, using one-out singles by Schulte and Lease before Schulte scored on a wild pitch and Henderson drove in a run with a single.

Meanwhile, Hanson took care of business on the mound, allowing three hits and two walks with two strikeouts over five shutout innings.

Six different Bombers had multi-hit games in the win. Meendering went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, a run scored and an RBI. Hanson went 2-for-3 with a stolen base, a run scored and an RBI. Schulte went 2-for-3 with a walk, two runs scored and an RBI. Lease went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three stolen bases. Henderson went 2-for-4 with a walk, two stolen bases, two RBI and two runs scored. Grant Wipf went 2-for-3 with a stolen base.

Nolan Krogman went 1-for-4 with a stolen base. Horn went 1-for-2 with two RBI and a run scored. Dauer stole three bases and scored a run. Lincoln Helmbolt walked once.

Game 2: Renner 5, Brookings 2

Renner took an early lead and never looked back to split the doubleheader with a 5-2 win in the second game.

Renner’s offense jumped ahead early as Bloom drew a one-out walk and scored on Max Vortherms’s RBI single in the bottom of the first inning. Renner extended its lead in the top of the third inning with a two-run triple by Talec Schlimgen and Vortherms drove in his second run of the game with a single to make it a 4-0 game.

Brookings scored its first run of the game in the bottom of the fifth inning when Hanson tripled and scored on Dauer’s sacrifice fly but Renner got the run back in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by Oliver Klinkhammer. 

Brookings mounted a threat in the bottom of the seventh inning with a one-out double by Krogman and a single by Lease but after Krogman stole home, Hanson flew out and Dauer struck out to end the game.

Wipf started for Brookings, allowing four earned runs on five hits and three walks with two strikeouts over five innings. Henderson pitched the final two innings, allowing an unearned run and two hits with four strikeouts over two innings.

Krogman went 1-for-3 with a double, a stolen base and a run scored. Hanson went 1-for-2 with a triple and a run scored. Andrew Heinze went 1-for-1 with a walk. Lease also went 1-for-3 with a stolen base.