Baseball team walk-off winners (VIDEO)

Just as they were on Monday in the Central Minnesota Conference opener, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team had their backs to the wall in Elrosa late in a game. This time the stakes were higher, however, as they were down to the last 3 outs while trailing by two runs. Visiting Maple Lake led 11-9 after the top of the eighth inning.

Final: B-B-E 12, Maple Lake 11 in 8 innings. The game lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes, and both teams combined for 8 errors as game temperatures hovered around 40 degrees. My minivan's thermometer read 41 degrees when the game concluded.

After the Jaguars posted a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second, the Irish plated four runs in the top of the third. The Jaguars cut the deficit to 4-3 after three innings, but the Irish scored twice in the top of the fourth. Down 6-3 in the fifth, the Jaguars scored 5 runs in the bottom of the inning only to see Maple Lake score three runs in the top of the sixth.

Trailing 9-8 going into the bottom of the seventh, the Jaguars scored the one run they needed to stay alive and force extra innings when Aiden Mueller drew a bases-loaded walk. Maple Lake then took an 11-9 lead with two runs in the eighth. B-B-E faced a new pitcher in the bottom of the eighth. Luke Dingmann, who hit a leadoff single, scored the first run on a wild pitch to make it an 11-10 game. Jordan Herickhoff then knocked a two-RBI single that sailed just out of the reach of the second baseman to earn the walk-off win as Ethan Mueller scored to tie it, and Luke Illies then slid across home base with the game-winning run.

Watch how the end of the game played out tonight in Elrosa...


Aiden Mueller got the pitching win in relief while throwing two innings. Ethan Mueller started and pitched four innings, and Brett DeRoo pitched the fifth and sixth innings. The Jaguars piled up 12 hits compared to 8 by the Irish. Earning two hits each were Brett DeRoo, Luke Dingmann, Ethan Mueller, Owen Paulson and Kaden DeRoo.

Next: the Jaguars (3-1 overall, 2-0 CMC) have a conference game scheduled next Tuesday on the road against Eden Valley-Watkins. The game site has not been verified, but as of now the schedule is showing Eden Valley.

No word yet out of Maple Lake, where the fastpitch team was playing a doubleheader against the Irish.

Thursday night update...the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team earned a big CMC series split at Maple Lake. In game one, the Jaguars won 16-3 in five innings and lost 20-9 in a wild seven-inning game. The doubleheader started out with a bang for the visiting Jaguars, who scored 11 runs in the top of the first inning in the opener. After the second inning, they expanded the lead to 14-0. B-B-E takes a 4-4 record (2-2 CMC) into next week's action. The next game scheduled is at home on Tuesday against an outstanding EV-W Eagles squad.

Across both games, the fastpitch Jaguars piled up 26 hits. Mya Worms pitched all five innings in the 16-3 win with five hits, four strikeouts and one walk. Worms started in game two and pitched 6 1/3 innings, with Faith Radermacher closing with 2/3 of an inning pitched. Overall, 11 of Maple Lake's 20 runs were earned in that second game.

Central MN Conference baseball scores on April 18:
Eden Valley-Watkins 9, Royalton 2
EV-W 6, Royalton 3 (EV-W is 3-3 overall and 2-1 in the CMC)
Paynesville Area 7, Kimball Area 0 (Josiah Utsch throws a no-hitter in game two)
Paynesville Area 3, Kimball Area 1 (Bryce VanderBeek fires 13 strikeouts while going all 7 innings in the opener at Paynesville)
Holdingford 7, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 2
Holdingford 6, A-C-GC 2

Central MN Conference fastpitch scores on April 18:
Kimball Area 11, Paynesville Area 1 (6 innings)
Kimball Area 11, Paynesville Area 9 (the Bulldogs led 7-3 after 6 innings, but the Cubs plated 8 runs in the top of the 7th in the second game of the doubleheader at Kimball)
Holdingford 5, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 4 (Game one at Holdingford)
Holdingford 12, A-C-GC 5

Area baseball scores on April 18:
Upsala/Swanville Area 7, West Central Area 0
Minneota 10, Canby 1
Rockford Area 1, New London-Spicer 0
New London-Spicer 2, Rockford Area 1
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 10, Central MN Christian 2
Alexandria 7, Willmar 4
Albany 5, Melrose Area 0

Area fastpitch scores on April 18:
Sauk Centre 13, Montevideo 1 (5 innings)
Sauk Centre 12, Montevideo 2 (5 innings)
Melrose Area 6, West Central Area 3
Rockford 7, New London-Spicer 1
Rockford 14, NL-S 3
BOLD 11, Benson 1
BOLD 8, Benson 7 (9 innings; the Warriors, who are led by an outstanding 8th grade pitcher, plated 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th to win in walk-off fashion at Olivia)
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 18, Dawson-Boyd 12
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 16, Ortonville 0 (4 innings in game 2 of a Camden Conference doubleheader in Murdock)
K-M-S 17, Ortonville 2 (5 innings)
Lac qui Parle Valley 6, MACCRAY 3
LQPV 13, MACCRAY 3 (6 innings)
Minneota/Canby 22, Yellow Medicine East 2 (M/C scored 11 runs in the top of the seventh in game one at Minneota)
Minneota/Canby 12, YME 2 (5 innings)
Lakeview 16, RCW 6
Renville County West 8, Lakeview 6