The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team kept their undefeated streak going in the Stearns County League with a 6-0 win on Friday night against visiting New Munich in a north division clash.
Both teams have a short turnaround as they are set to square off again this afternoon. New Munich is the home team this time with first pitch at 1:30 p.m.
Today, Saturday, come over to Quisberg Park in Brooten to help celebrate the graduation of Class of 2022 member Brady Baker. My family is close friends with the Danny and Amanda Baker family and their children. We love them like family. Brady's graduation party is from 1 to 3 p.m. He is currently a dedicated worker at Bayer Built Woodworks, and we wish him all the best in his future plans!
Here's part of the starter introductions for Elrosa and then the playing of the National Anthem:
In last night's game, two of the better pitchers in the SCL went at it with New Munich's Ty Reller and Elrosa's Payton VanBeck and their defenses putting up zero after zero after zero through six innings. The Saints finally got to Reller in the sixth, ultimately scoring all six of their runs in the inning. Reller had limited the Saints to just three hits through six innings. In the bottom of the seventh, the Saints earned two runs off of Reller on back-to-back bunt singles by Blaine Fischer and Will VanBeck.
Elrosa's VanBeck went the distance and had a terrific night with 97 pitches with just six hits, no walks and eight strikeouts. Will Funk closed for New Munich with one and two thirds innings of work with three hits, one earned run, one walk and three strikeouts.
If you didn't get to Elrosa on Wednesday night, you missed an incredible night of fun, socializing and music at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church. They hosted a lengthy church social that started at 3 p.m. and lasted until sunset. It was advertised repeatedly in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper in June.
*Below is the Catholic band Sonic performing "Lean on Me" during the outdoor concert
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More to come later this afternoon.
