State amateur baseball yields 3 wins from Region 8C teams (VIDEO)

Paynesville, Farming and Regal all won their respective Class C state tournament openers on Friday and Saturday. More details to follow here later this evening.

Here's a video featuring the postgame celebration after Regal defeated Dumont:


Regal won 2-0 in 11 innings, with their 2 scores coming in the top of the 11th in Hutchinson. The previous night, Paynesville won by a 5-4 score in their state opener. Farming defeated Milroy on Saturday evening. In Elrosa's game, the Saints fell 6-2 to Windom.

Here's the starter introductions for Elrosa before they faced Windom:


Ethan Vogt started and pitched 6 innings, and he was relieved by Norway Lake-Sunburg draftee Weston Gjerde, who pitched in the 7th inning. Will VanBeck was closer in the the 8th inning. Elrosa scored once in the top of the 4th inning to make it a 2-2 tie game, but they were held scoreless across the final 5 innings.