Elrosa Saints earn No. 3 seed from regions for state tournament

The Elrosa Saints will open the Class C amateur state tournament next weekend. The Saints had a 3-2 record in the Region 8C tournament in Regal. After going 1-1 last weekend to fall into the elimination bracket, the Saints won back-to-back games in the tournament this weekend. This put them in the final seeding game of regions, which was played this afternoon. The Atwater Chuckers took an early 6-1 lead and came away with a 9-8 win.

The statistic of the game: Elrosa had 8 earned runs, while Atwater had 4 earned runs.

Region 8C state qualifiers plus state draftees:
1. Richmond (No. 1 seed; Ty Reller of New Munich and Cam Miller of Farming)
2. Atwater (Josiah Utsch of Roscoe and Ben Welle of Spring Hill)
3. Elrosa (Jared Cortez of Norway Lake-Sunburg and Caden Sand of New Munich)
4. Starbuck (Sam Etterman of New London-Spicer and Trent Wendlandt of Lake Henry)

On Saturday night, Richmond defeated Atwater 3-2 in the region championship game.

SPREAD THE WORD! Here's the state information you're looking for: the Elrosa Saints open the state tournament on Sunday, August 23 in New Prague. They play the Pierz Brewers at 4 p.m. Pierz is a state entrant from the Victory League.

Their game follows the 1:30 p.m. game in New Prague, which features Atwater taking on the Nimrod Gnats. Nimrod was the No. 2 seed from Region 4C.

Here's a video from the Saturday morning events at August Fest:


More to come.

Here's a video from the Pope County Fair...which was awhile ago now!


The Belgrade city council held their regular August meeting tonight. The agenda was posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's editor's blog: http://lifeinbonanzavalley.blogspot.com.