Saints continue to heat up summer (VIDEOS)

The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team won their seventh straight game today by defeating New Munich 7-3 in a Stearns County League North game. They now hold a 9-7 overall record including exhibition contests. In the SCL-North standings, the Saints pull into third place with a 5-6 record.

The Saints posted four runs in the top of the second inning, and the scoring started with Derek Wiener hitting a solo home run. Elrosa made it a 5-0 lead in the third. After they added two additional runs in the seventh, the Silverstreaks rallied in the bottom of the ninth with three runs before they ran out of outs. Jackson Peter and Gavin Kampsen also earned extra base hits with one double each.

Elrosa had 10 hits to 8 for the host Silverstreaks. Will VanBeck started and got the win with 8 1/3 innings pitched. Wyatt Steffensen earned the save with the Saints recording the last two outs with him on the mound. New Munich's Ty Reller was tagged with the loss (7 innings).

Here's action today at New Munich starting with Jackson Peter at the plate facing Ty Reller in the top of the fourth inning:


Next: an exhibition game on Wednesday, July 10 in Elrosa against the Paynesville Pirates. First pitch is set for 7:30 p.m. Following that, Meire Grove is set to come to Elrosa on Friday, July 12. The Roscoe game has not been rescheduled.

Good luck tonight to the Elrosa Saints Little Dipper team, as they enter the SCL playoffs as the No. 7 seed. They face No. 2-seeded Farming in Farming at 6:30 p.m.

Here's a video from a week ago with Greenwald in Elrosa; this is in the bottom of the 8th inning:


More to come.

And just for fun...finally posting this...it was a fun moment! At the Gary Breitbach Memorial golf tournament on June 29 at Prairie View Golf Course.

Duane Braegelman knocks down a great putt:


Stearns County League baseball scores on July 7:
Spring Hill 14, Meire Grove 13 (this was a continuation of a game halted earlier in the season due to the weather; action started today with Spring Hill ahead 11-10 in the seventh inning)
Spring Hill 7, Meire Grove 3
Lake Henry 3, Roscoe 0
Farming 8, Greenwald 1

Food options summary for Bonanza Valley Days in Brooten!
At the Lucky Shots Bowling Alley on main street in Brooten, they will have open kids bowling from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 13. Also! On Lucky Shots Bowling Alley will be grilling brats and hamburgers for sale and also single slices of pizza when open during the BVD weekend.

RJ's Mini Mart, the Backyard Burger drive-in, Marcia's Bar and Grill plus the KaDe Shack will also all be serving food. At the KaDe Shack, they will shut down their kitchen at approximately noon on Saturday, July 13 and be serving only drinks the rest of the day/evening. On Saturday morning, the KaDe Shack will have Tom's hearty breakfast buffet from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. partly to help feed the huge crowd coming to town for the BVD Car and Tractor Show.

Other food vendors are coming to town as well. More on that to come later. I plan to make most updates on this at the Bonanza Valley Voice website, and you can find the BVD food options web article here: https://shorturl.at/muaOI. The July 11 printed newspaper will also have this information.

Special Taher Foods summer meals program announcement:
On Friday, July 12, Tahar will crank up their summer meals to accommodate the extra influx of children who will be in Brooten for the BVD youth baseball tournament. They will have hamburgers to serve up to 200 children between 11 a.m. and noon on Friday. The food will include extra components to qualify as a federally reimbursable meal, and the food will also be served to-go as needed to help keep the kids coming and going and well fed! Please spread the word. These meals are FREE!!!