Saints take the Elite 8 title!

The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team won the Elite 8 tournament title on their home field today. They defeated the Fergus Falls Hurricanes by a 4-3 score.

Elrosa scored twice in the first inning and rode the 2-0 lead into the top of the sixth, when Fergus Falls tied it at 2-2. The Saints pulled ahead 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth, and Fergus Falls tied it in the top of the seventh. Elrosa's Blaine Fischer scored in the bottom of the eighth on Jackson Peter's sacrifice fly-RBI to give the Saints a 4-3 walk off win.

Fergus Falls had five errors, while Elrosa had three errors. Elrosa left 12 runners stranded, while Fergus Falls had 10 stranded runners.Hitting-wise, Elrosa had eight hits compared to nine by the Hurricanes. Ethan Vogt started for Elrosa and pitched six innings and fired seven strikeouts against no walks, seven hits and no earned runs. Ashton Dingmann closed in the final two innings and earned the win.

More to come. The Saints travel west near the South Dakota border for next weekend's action.


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