The Brookings Bullets 16U baseball team was swept, dropping both ends of a doubleheader against Mitchell on Sunday afternoon.
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MITCHELL — The Brookings Bullets 16U baseball team was swept, dropping both ends of a doubleheader against Mitchell on Sunday afternoon.
The Bullets are now 1-7-1 on the season and will travel to Aberdeen for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday.
Mitchell took an early lead and never looked back, defeating the Bullets 11-1 via the 10-run rule in the fifth inning.
Mitchell got on the board first when Carter McCormick scored on an error in the bottom of the first inning and doubled its lead on an RBI double by Brennen Penne in the bottom of the second inning.
The Bombers pushed a run across when Parker Witte walked to lead off the top of the third inning and later scored on Tate Sonnenburg’s RBI single. But Mitchell got the run back on Canon Moller’s RBI single and added three more runs on a balk and two errors in the bottom of the third.
Armed with a 6-1 lead, Mitchell added two runs on an RBI single by Jacob Ebert, a run on Brayden Reindl’s double and another run on an error in the bottom of the fourth. Mitchell finished the game on Ebert’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Wes Van Ede started for Brookings allowing 10 runs (five earned) on 10 hits and three walks over 3.1 innings. Sonnenburg finished the game, allowing an unearned run on one hit and a walk over one inning.
Sonnenburg went 1-for-3 with an RBI. Witte went 1-for-2 with a walk and a run scored. Parker Nielsen went 1-for-2 with a walk. Connor Jones went 1-for-3 . Sutton Schneider drew a walk.
Mitchell scored 11 times in the bottom of the second inning on the way to a 15-0 win that ended in the third inning via the 15-run rule.
Mitchell got on the board in the bottom of the first inning after scoring on an error before Jaxson Hartman singled and Dawson Adams grounded out to each drive in a run.
Mitchell broke the game open in the bottom of the second inning as Gavin Jones and Kendan Skinner each delivered RBI singles before Hartman delivered a two-run triple.
Kaiden Allen followed up with a sacrifice fly, Adams delivered a two-run single and Penne drove in a run with a double before Jones hit an RBI single and Hartman capped the inning with a two-run double.
Adams drove in the final run and ended the game with a walk-off single in the third inning.
Rylan Hesser started for Brookings allowing 14 runs (six earned) on 11 hits and a walk with two strikeouts over two innings.
Brennan Cordes allowed one earned run on three hits while getting one out in the bottom of the third inning.
Jones, Schneider and Van Ede each drew walks in the loss.
