The Brookings Post 74 Bullets 16U team dropped both ends of a doubleheader, falling by scores of 11-8 and 13-7 to the Watertown Red Sox at Bob Shelden Field on Thursday night.
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BROOKINGS — The Brookings Post 74 Bullets 16U team dropped both ends of a doubleheader, falling by scores of 11-8 and 13-7 to the Watertown Red Sox at Bob Shelden Field on Thursday night.
The Bullets have a record of 1-5-1 and will return to action when they travel to Mitchell for a doubleheader beginning Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Bullets out-hit the Red Sox 11-6 but committed five errors in a loss in the opener of Thursday’s doubleheader.
After both teams had a scoreless first inning, Watertown got on the board on an RBI single by Matthew Bertsch and scored another run on an error during the same play. Watertown added another run on an error in the second at bat before Max Stroup drove in a run on a groundout and Caden Corey scored on a passed ball to give the Red Sox a 5-0 lead.
Rylan Hesser led off the bottom of the second with a single and Wes Van Ede was hit by a pitch to put two runners on and two runs scored on errors to make it a 5-2 game. But Watertown both runs back on RBI singles by Andrew Dahl and Corey in the top of the third inning and used a fielder’s choice and a run scored on a wild pitch to take a 9-2 lead in the top of the fifth inning.
The Bullets started to come back when Tate Sonnenburg tripled to lead off the bottom of the fifth inning and scored on Sutton Schneider’s RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning. Connor Jones and Vince Doblar both singled with one out to begin another rally in the bottom of the sixth that led to back-to-back RBI singles by Sonnenburg and Schneider and another run scoring on a wild pitch to make it 9-6.
A fielder’s choice off the bat of Camden Reicks made it a 9-7 game but Watertown broke away with a two-run triple by Kasen Jensen in the top of the seventh. Doblar drove in the final run of the game on a groundout in the bottom of the seventh.
Sonnenburg went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, a walk, two runs scored and an RBI.
Parker Witte started for Brookings and allowed nine runs (two earned) on five hits and five walks and two strikeouts. Doblar pitched the final two innings allowing two earned runs on one hit and one walk with a strikeout.
Schneider went 2-for-4 with a walk, a run scored and two RBI. Reicks went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. Jones went 2-for-5. Doblar went 1-for-4 with a walk, a run scored and an RBI. Hesser went 1-for-3 with two walks and a run scored. Van Ede walked twice, Witte walked once and Parker Nielsen walked once, stole a base, scored a run and drove in a run.
The Red Sox jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, picking up a five-inning win in Thursday’s nightcap.
Watertown scored the first run of the game on a groundout by Dawson Hlavcek in the top of the first inning and took a 2-0 lead when Jensen drove in a run with a single. The Red Sox doubled their lead on a two-run single by Matthew Bertsch in the top of the second and scored a run on a passed ball later in the inning to go ahead 5-0.
Brookings responded in the bottom of the second when Sonnenburg led off with a single and advanced to third on Schneider’s two-out single. The Bullets parlayed the rally into a pair of runs scoring on errors and another on a wild pitch to make it 5-3 but the Red Sox got both runs back scoring two runs on a pair of groundouts in the top of the third inning.
Sonnenburg and Schneider drove in runs with singles and the Bullets added another run on an error to climb within 8-7 at the end of the third inning but Watertown scored five unanswered runs to close the game including runs in the top of the fourth inning and two runs in the top of the fifth inning.
Jones started for Brookings, allowing 11 runs (seven earned) on six hits and three walks with five strikeouts over 3.2 innings. Nielsen allowed two earned runs on three hits and two walks with a strikeout over the final 1.1 innings.
Sonnenburg went 2-for-3 with a stolen base, two runs scored and an RBI. Schneider went 2-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI. Brennan Cordes went 1-for-3 with a run scored. Nielsen drew three walks and stole a base. Hesser and Charlie Richter each drew a walk.
