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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Playoff division championship! Saints secure another title (VIDEO)


Video finally added here on Monday morning...

It's a renewed rivalry game today at New Munich, as the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team is set to face Spring Hill in the Stearns County League North playoff championship. First pitch is at high noon!

MidMNsports-dot-com will live stream the game on their website. 

Updates...
Through two innings, the Saints have a 4-1 lead over the Chargers. Devon Orbeck's RBI-single in the top of the first gave the Chargers an initial 1-0 lead.

**Through 4 1/2 innings, the game is tied 4-4.

**Final: Elrosa 6, Spring Hill 5. The Saints won in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the ninth inning! Ashton Dingmann's RBI-single scored Blaine Fischer for the winning run. A solo home run in the bottom of the fifth by Derek Wiener sparked the offense after the Chargers tied it at 4-4. You can see that in the video below.

Now 15-3-1 overall, Elrosa takes the number one seed from the North Division into the region tournament. Ashton Dingmann also closed for Elrosa and earned the win in 5 innings with 4 hits, 1 earned run and just 2 walks. Elrosa had 13 hits to 7 by the Chargers.

Starting pitcher Riley Meyer limited Spring Hill to 3 hits and one run in the first three innings.

*Here's video from today's game in the bottom of the fifth, during which Derek Wiener hit his solo homer over left-center:

The Region 15C opener for the Saints is at 1:30 p.m. in Lake Henry on Saturday, August 5. Please spread the word!

*In the division elimination game, the Silverstreaks are ahead one to zero over Greenwald. Final: New Munich 10, Greenwald 0. Elrosa opens the Region 15C tournament with New Munich on August 5 (1:30 p.m.).

In the SCL-South, Richmond earned the No. 3 seed to regions with an 8-1 win over Roscoe today. Earlier, St. Martin defeated Lake Henry in another fantastic game by a 3-1 score to secure the No. 1 seed out of the south.