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Drakes go 4-1

 

      The Blackduck baseball team won four of their last five to improve to 6-6 on the season.

      The Drakes took two Tuesday with a 25-3 win over Kelliher/Northome and a 21-0 win over Red Lake.

      Bobby Olson picked up the win in both games. Olson entered in the third versus KN and pitched all five innings versus Red Lake.

      Mike DeJean ended 4-7 on the day with a double and Adam Beck was 5-8 with a double. Olson was 2-2 with a 3-run homer versus Red Lake.

      April 26 the Drakes picked up a road win at Lake of the Woods 14-3.

      Cody Gross got the complete-game win on the hill. Gross was also 3-5 with a double.

      Jared Hahn ended 4-5 from the plate. Matt Mistic ended 2-4 with a double.

      The lone loss for Blackduck over the last five games was a 7-5 setback to Bagley/Clearbrook-Gonvick Thursday.

      The Flyers’ Jason Bjerke got the win and Beck took the loss.

      Luke Klostermeier ended 2-3 from the plate with a solo knock in the win. Scott Stebe was 2-4.

      Scott Geerdes led the Drakes with three hits, DeJean had two.

      The Drakes picked up a dramatic win Friday beating Cass Lake-Bena 4-3 in eight innings.

      Gross went the distance for the win while Tom Goodwin picked up the loss. Kevin Burnette pitched the first seven innings for CLB.

      The Panthers scored one run in the first and held a 1-0 lead until the seventh when the Drakes tied the game. Blackduck then added three more in the eighth for a 4-1 lead.

      Burnette’s triple in the bottom of the eighth led to two runs but the Panthers couldn’t plate another run.

      Hahn ended 2-3 for the Drakes while Chris Smith was 2-4.

 

TUESDAY

 

Game 1

Kelliher/Northome 201 00 – 3 3 5

Blackduck 9(10)3 3X – 25 14 3

 

      Ross Gardenas, Bobby Olson (3) and Scott Geerdes and Cody Nelson (5).

      W: Olson. L: J.D. Peura. 2B: Mike DeJean, Adam Beck.

 

Game 2

Red Lake 000 00 – 0 0 8

Blackduck 464 7x – 21 12 0

 

Olson and Geerdes and Nash (5).

W: Olson. L: Daryl Crowe. HR: Olson.

 

FRIDAY

 

Blackduck 000 000 13 – 4 6 4

Cass Lake-Bena 100 000 02 – 3 6 6

 

Cody Gross and Scott Geerdes; Kevin Burnette, Tom Goodwin (8) and Matt Brown.

W: Gross. L: Goodwin. 3B: Burnette.

 

THURSDAY

 

Blackduck 100 003 1 – 8 5 4

Bagley/CG 103 120 0 – 7 8 3

 

Jason Bjerke and J. Peterson; Beck and Geerdes

W: Bjerke. L: Beck. HR: Luke Klostermeier.

 

APRIL 26

 

Blackduck 320 023 4 – 14 14 8

Lake of the Woods 111 000 0 – 3 3 5

 

Gross and Geerdes; Fischer and Block.

W: Gross; L: Block. 2B: Gross, Mistic.

 

 

TC/MCC 12,

Fosston 2

 

    FOSSTON – Fosston, in just their second year of existence on the baseball diamond, fell to 0-9 on the season Tuesday losing to Tri-County/Marshall County Central 12-2.

      The Greyhounds cut the lead to 4-2 in the second but TC/MCC put eight on the board over the next three for the win.

      Jake Anderson was a perfect 3-for-3 with two home runs for three RBI in the win. Tyler Stusynski was on the hill for the winners.

    Jesse DeFrang picked up the loss for Fosston. Josh Roysland was 1-for-2 with a run and an RBI.

    TC/MCC also won the JV contest 7-0.

 

TC/MCC 312 51 – 12 11 2

Fosston 020 00 – 2 3 3

 

W: Stusynski. L: DeFrang. HR: Anderson 2.

 

Fertile-Beltrami 13,

Fosston 7

 

    FOSSTON – Junior Taylor Sannes helped give Fertile-Beltrami a 13-7 win over Fosston Monday.

    Sannes picked up the win for the Falcons on the mound and also had three doubles and three RBI.

    Aaron Johnson went 2-4 from the plate for the Greyhounds with 2 runs and 2 RBI. Josh Roysland scored one run and drove in three.

    Eighth grader Reed Sander got the loss for Fosston.

    FB ended with seven hits and committed six errors while Fosston had five hits and four errors.

    The Hounds face Win-E-Mac Thursday in their next start and are at East Grand Forks Sacred Heart Friday.

 

Softball

 

Pine Rvr-Backus 18,

Nevis 2

 

    PINE RIVER – Junior Erin Cusac connected for a single, double and triple to lead Pine River-Backus to an 18-2 win Friday over Nevis.

    Chelsey Dabill also had a triple for PRB and Saara Backberg added a home run.

    Michelle Flategraff drove in both Nevis’ runs with a triple in the second.

    Laura Bolton got the loss and Jamie Fey the win.

    The Tigers host WHA Thursday in their next start.

   

Nevis 020 00 – 2 5 3

PRB 26(11) 0x – 19 20 1

 

W: Fey. L: Bolton. 2B: Cusac. 3B: Cusac, Dabill, Flategraff HR: Backberg.