At a recent home game, Paul Dorr leans away from inside high heat to avoid being hit by a fastball. Paul and his teammates are playing this weekend to see if they advance to the state play-offs in the Senior Babe Ruth league. Staff photo/Brian Larsen
If you only looked at the final score it would appear as if the CC/SB Senior Babe Ruth team was in a mismatch playing against Esko. However, the game was much closer than the final 14-3 score would indicate.
This was the first game for each team in the Babe Ruth playoffs. The game was played on Saturday, August 1, in Aurora.
Ero Wallin’s first inning double pushed one run across the plate in the first and a second inning ground out by Jacob Dorr brought in the tying run as the team’s went into the third knotted 2-2.
Neither team scored in the third but James LeGarde homered in the fourth—his second home run of the day—driving in three runs to break the game open.
Ero Wallin took the loss for CC/SB. Ero gave up 14 hits and 14 runs over four innings, striking out two.
James LeGarde led Esko with his 4-4 batting. Noah Furcht, Tyler Kokela and Josh Bolgrean each had multiple hits for Esko.
Dan Hoffman was the winning pitcher. He pitched five innings, giving up three runs on five hits and striking out four.
With the loss CC/SB moved into the second game of the day needing a win or their playoffs would end.
CC/SB Senior Babe Ruth moves on in playoffs
After four innings, the game against Proctor was close. Cook County/Silver Bay Senior Babe Ruth was up 6-5, but then the CC/ SB bats came alive and over the next two innings CC/ SB put 13 more runs on the score board to run away with the contest, winning 19-8.
The post-season game was played on Saturday, August 1, in Aurora, and ended after six innings because of the ten run rule.
Proctor’s Tanner Olson started the Rails offense with a two-run homer.
Isaiah Deschampe led the way on offense. He hit two doubles and a single while going 3-5 with four RBI’s. Andrew Miller and Ero Wallin were also 3-5 and Tate Crawford was 2-2 at the plate. Tate drove in the go ahead run in the top of the fourth with a single. Kole Anderson drove in two runs on one hit and Paul Dorr picked up two hits and drove in an RBI during the hit parade.
During the big sixth inning Paul Dorr, Andrew Miller, Joe Deschampe, Isaiah Deschampe, Kole Anderson and Ero Wallin each collected RBI’s.
Proctor jumped out to a 3-0 lead after one and led 4-0 after two. CC/SB scored three in the third while Procter added one more. The lead changed hands in the fourth on three runs by CC/SB while shutting out Proctor.
A spirited sixth inning three run comeback by the Rails fell well short, and the game ended.
Tate Crawford took the win on the mound for the team. Tate pitched three innings, allowing seven hits and five runs.
Andrew Miller, who homered in the fourth, pitched three innings of relief, giving up two hits and three runs while striking out three and walking one.
Cole Johnson took the loss for Proctor. Johnson pitched 3.1 innings, giving up five runs on eight hits while striking out three and walking one. Proctor used five more pitchers in the game to try to stop the damage inflicted by CC/SB bats, but it was to no avail.
Cook County/Silver Bay ended with 19 hits to Proctor’s nine. Proctor fielders committed six errors while CC/SB finished with three.
Senior Babe Ruth faces Taconite in elimination
On Sunday the kids traveled back to Aurora to play a familiar foe in Taconite. A loss would end the play-offs for either team, so it was win or go home.
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