Walk-off winners

The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team trailed 4-2 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning against Foley today when Ethan Vogt hit a three-run home run to end the game. Final score: Elrosa 5, Foley 4. The Saints trailed 4-1 going into the bottom of the seventh.

In a semifinal of the winner's bracket of the Elrosa Elite State 8 tournament, Regal defeated Hutchinson 4-3 and advances to the championship game. Their opponent will be Delano, who beat Raymond 4-3 in the other semifinal game.

On Sunday: Elrosa plays at 11:30 a.m. in the fifth-place game. Regal's game against Delano will start at approximately 3:30 p.m.

Sinclair Lewis Days baseball

In the championship game at Sauk Centre, the B-B-E Jaguars 5th-6th grade baseball team beat Sauk Centre 7-2. Elrosa's team played for third place.

Here's video from the amateur baseball game last night in Elrosa:


In amateur baseball, the Regal Eagles won 2-0 over Starbuck in the first round of the County Line League playoffs. Next for Regal (seeded third) is a trip south to Green Lake Diamonds on Sunday (tomorrow) with a 1:30 p.m. game against New London-Spicer.

Also in the County Line League playoffs, the Norway Lake-Sunburg Lakers (seeded fourth) beat fifth-seeded Paynesville 6-0 in their first-round game. Their next game is on Sunday (tomorrow) at top-seeded Atwater at 6 p.m.

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Lake Henry vs. Regal

The Lake Henry Lakers edged the Regal Eagles in a very close ball game by a 4-3 score on Friday night in the opening game of the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament tonight in Elrosa.

Saturday's games in Elrosa feature: Richmond vs. Spring Hill (11:00am), New Munich vs. Norway Lake-Sunburg (1:30pm) and Meire Grove vs. St. Martin (4:00pm).

A night game will be held on Saturday night between the winners of the 11:00am and 1:30pm games; the winner of that game gets a ticket to the Class C amateur state tournament.