Babe Ruth State Baseball Semis! Updates

In the Babe Ruth state semifinals tonight in Henning, the B-B-E Jaguars are battling Parkers Prairie for a berth in the state championship game. After two innings of play, the score was tied 3-3.

In the 4th inning, the Jaguars took a 4-3 lead.

In the top of the 5th inning, the Panthers took a 6-4 lead.

In the bottom of the 5th inning, Noah DeRoo hit a solo home run! This cut the deficit in half to make it a 6-5 score.

The game got tough in the top of the 6th inning, and Parkers Prairie scored 3 additional runs to take a 9-5 lead.

At 11:20 p.m., the bottom of the 7th inning is underway. The game has been going for 2 hours by this point. The Jaguars need baserunners in a bad way.

Final score: Parkers Prairie 9, B-B-E 7. The Jaguars had the tying runs on base, but they ran out of outs in what was a bitter loss. In the postgame awards, Jaxxon Koetter was B-B-E's Defensive Player of the Game, and Dylan Roering was the Offensive Player of the Game.

B-B-E (17-3) now plays for third place tomorrow morning.

In Stearns County amateur baseball news...
Top-seeded Spring Hill survived a tough challenge by No. 4-seeded Greenwald in a 3-2 win today to advance to the Stearns County League North division championship game. For Elrosa, they play at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow (Sunday) at home against Greenwald in an elimination and region-qualifying game. At 11 a.m. tomorrow in Elrosa, New Munich and Spring Hill square off in a seeding game and the division playoff championship.