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Bottineau Babe Ruth defeats Black Sox in doubleheader

The New Rockford-Sheyenne Babe Ruth played a District 2 doubleheader against Bottineau on July 6 in New Rockford, dropping both games.

The first game was a blow out from the start and Bottineau won 16-4 in five innings. Bottineau built an 8-1 lead in the first two innings and they just kept on adding runs. Luke Yri started at pitcher and pitched over 100 pitches in only 3 innings of work.

The Sox had four hits in the game, two by Connor Knatterud and one each by Yri and Alex Weisenburger.

Babe Ruth

District 2 Baseball

Bottineau 16, NR-S 4

at New Rockford

Tuesday, July 6

Bottineau 264 40 --- 16 9 0

NR-S 102 01 --- 4 4 4

Carsen Haerer, Eli Bristol (5) and Colten Getzlaff; Luke Yri, Alex Weisenburger (4) and Bradyn Collier. W -- Haerer. L -- Yri.

Bottineau: Haerer 4 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 7 K, 1-3, BB, RBI, 2 R; Bristol 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K; Gabe Glasner 3-3, BB, RBI, 3 R; Khalil Abdurrahman 2-3, 2 R.

NR-S: Yri 3 IP, 6 H, 12 R, 6 BB, 4 K, 1-3, R; Weisenburger 2 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 3 K, 1-2; Knatterud 2-3, BB, 3 R.

The score in the second game was closer and all seven innings were played, but Bottineau still won 11-8. Easton Simon pitched a complete game for the Sox. He pitched pretty well but the Sox defense let him down, committing seven errors in the game.

Seven different Sox hit singles in this game, Collier, Weisenburger, Kage Walford, DJ Mudgett, Malaki Kukowski, Vinnie Ruppell and Jackson Schumacher. Keaton Cudworth, Mudgett, Weisenburger, Walford, Simon and Knatterud all scored single runs and Collier scored twice.

Bottineau 11, NR-S 8

at New Rockford

NR-S 301 300 1 --- 8 7 7

Bottineau 330 401 x --- 11 10 2

Easton Simon and Bradyn Collier; Kaden Kvernum, Brooks Siemens (5) and Lucas Getzlaff, Carsen Getzlaff (5). W -- Kvernum. L -- Simon. S -- Siemens.

NR-S: Simon 6 IP, 10 H, 11 R, 4 BB, 3 K; Collier 1-4, RBI, 2 R; Mudgett 1-2, R; Walford 1-3, BB, RBI, R; Weisenburger 1-2, 2 BB, R; Kukowski 1-4; Ruppell 1-4, Schumacher 1-4, RBI.

Bottineau: Kvernum 4 IP, 4 H, 7 R, 4 BB, 7 K; Siemens 3 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 5 K; Haerer 3-4, 2 R; Ryder Pollman 2-4, RBI, R; Glasner 1-3, BB, RBI, 3 R.