Carrington Cardinals soar past Sox

On Monday, April 11, both the SNR Black Sox and Carrington Cardinals entered the baseball diamond with recent wins under their belt, but only the Cardinals would leave with another.

For the first time this season, SNR's Koby Duda took the mound to start Monday's game, and struggled in his two innings of work.

His outing began with a walk followed by two consecutive wild pitches, sending the Cardinals' Grady Shipman to third base with no outs. Another walk followed, and Cardinals' senior Lucas Hendrickson smacked an RBI single to center field, sending two Cardinals across home plate.

Hendrickson later stole second, and after another walk, the Cardinals' Noah Paulson capitalized, sending an RBI single into the outfield for another Carrington run. The final run of the inning was scored soon after, on yet another wild pitch.

Among all those walks and wild pitches, Duda managed three strikeouts in the first inning, but not before the Black Sox found themselves in a 4-0 hole to start the game.

SNR would counter with one run in the bottom of the inning, after an error by the Cardinals' second baseman sent SNR's Kaden Jensen home for the Back Sox' first run. But Hendrickson, the Cardinals' starting pitcher, didn't allow the scoring to continue.

Duda returned to the mound in the second and performed much better, but still allowed one Cardinals' runner to score after a wild pitch.

SNR's Haydon Meier followed with a short pitching stint in the third, allowing another Cardinals' runner to score before Nick Berglund relieved Meier and closed out the inning with two quick strikeouts. Good hitting and a costly error allowed two more Cardinals to score in the fourth inning.

Hendrickson, meanwhile, was cruising through the Black Sox lineup, notching eight strikeouts in four innings and giving Carrington an impressive 8-1 advantage.

Seeing his success, the Cardinals sent Hendrickson out for a fifth inning on the mound, but with his pitch count increasing, the task seemed a bridge too far. Hendrickson allowed a walk to start the inning, followed by multiple wild pitches and a number of costly hits.

The Black Sox capitalized and scored three runs: two on RBI doubles and another off an error by the Cardinals' second baseman. Just like that, the Black Sox were back in it with a chance to win.

Their comeback attempt was aided by Berglund, who was a strikeout machine during his five innings on the mound. Of the 15 outs recorded in those five innings, 10 came by way of the strikeout, and after the fourth inning not one Carrington Cardinal would cross home plate.

Despite their best efforts, however, the SNR offense just couldn't muster what it needed to in the closing innings, as Cardinals' pitcher, Hudson Schmitz, allowed just two hits in his only two innings of work.

The final score was 8-4, sending the Cardinals back to Carrington with another win, as they remain undefeated on the young season at 2-0. Meanwhile, the loss evens the Black Sox' overall record at 2-2.

The SNR Black Sox attempted a return to winning ways at the baseball jamboree in Carrington on Monday, April 18, and at home versus LaMoure-Litchville/Marion on April 19. Those games will be covered in the April 25 edition of the Transcript, should weather allow.

Region 3 Baseball

Carrington 8, SNR 4

at New Rockford

Cgtn: 411 200 0 - 8 7 3

SNR: 100 030 0 - 4 8 3

SNR Individual Stats

Hitting: Kaden Jensen, 1 run; Nick Berglund 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 run; Keaton Cudworth 1-3; Brody Weisenburger 1-3; Connor Knatterud 2-4, 1 run; Koby Duda 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 run

Pitching: Duda 2.0 IP, 2 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 5 SO; Haydon Meier 0.0 IP, 1 ER, 2 BB; Berglund 5.0 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 10 SO

Carrington Individual Stats

Hitting: Grady Shipman 0-2, 3 runs, 2 BB; Joshua Bickett 0-3, 1 run, 1 BB; Hudson Schmitz 1-3, 2 RBI, 1 BB; Lucas Hendrickson 1-2, 1 RBI, 2 runs, 2 BB; Kael Koval 0-3, 1 run, 1 BB; Noah Paulson 2-4, 1 RBI; Ethan Roller 2-4; Corbin Clifton 1-4.

Pitching: Hendrickson 5.0 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 9 SO; Schmitz 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 3 SO

Junior Varsity

Carrington 1, SNR 6

at New Rockford

Cgtn: 10 00 0 - 1 3 1

SNR: 04 02 X - 6 6 0

SNR Individual Stats

Hitting: Knatterud 1-1, 3 RBI, 2 runs, 1 BB; Easton Simon 1-2, 1 RBI, 1 run, 1 BB; B. Weisenburger 1-3; Collier 1-2, 1 RBI; Alex Weisenburger 1-1, 1 run, 1 BB; Meier 1-2, 1 run

Pitching: Simon 4.0 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 SO; A. Weisneburger 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO

Carrington Individual Stats

Hitting: Joshua Bickett 2-3, 1 run; Jake Otto 1-3

Pitching: Bickett 2.2 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 2 SO; Ethan Roller 1.0 IP, 1 H, 2 ER, 1 BB