Jun. 19—GRANITE FALLS — The Bird Island Bullfrogs needed seven innings to beat the Granite Falls Kilowatts 16-0 Friday night in a Corn Belt League amateur baseball game at Richter Field.
The Bullfrogs (5-1 Corn Belt) had 19 hits.
Tyler Hebrinkw as 4-for-5 with three doubles, three runs and two RBI. Trent Athmann was 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs and two RBI. And, Jack Peppel was 3-for-5 with a double, a run and an RBI.
Colten Minkel, Dylan Gass and Zeke Walton all had two hits each for the Bullfrogs.
Dylan Lindstrom, Brandon Grund, Tyler Dammann and Ty Schulte each had a hit for Granite Falls (2-3 Corn Belt).
Bird Island is host to Sacred Heart at 1 p.m. Sunday in another Corn Belt game. Granite Falls plays at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Willmar to play the Rails.
Corn Belt
Bird Island 16,
Granite Falls 0
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Granite Falls 000 000 0-0 4 2
Hitting — Bird Island: Colten Minkel 2-4, Nic Taylor 1-2 r, Trent Athmann 3-5 r-2 rbi-2 2b-2, Logan Swan 0-2 r-3 hbp-2 sac, Tyler Hebrink 4-5 r-3 rbi-2 2b-3, Dylan Gass 2-5 r-2 rbi-4 2b, Shawn Dollerschell 1-2 r-2 rbi 2b, Riley Dikken 1-2 rbi, Jack Peppel 3-5 r rbi 2b, Alex Lang 0-4 r, Zeke Walton 2-4 r rbi hbp … Granite Falls: Dylan Lindstrom 1-2, Brandon Grund 1-2, Tyler Dammann 1-1, Ty Schulte 1-2, Angel Jimenez 0-0 hbp
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — Bird Island: Aiden Elfering (W) 4-1-0-0-0-3, Brad Gass 1-0-0-0-0-0, Casey Lewandowski 2-3-0-0-1-4 … Granite Falls: Bennett Knapper (L) 3-9-7-7-3-3, Dalton Anderson 1-2-3-1-1-2, tom Lindstrom 3-8-6-6-3-2
Elrosa Elite 8
Tournament
Hastings 9,
NLS Twins 1
The Hastings Hawks pounded out 12 hits in the first round of the Elrosa Elight 8 Tournament in Elrosa.
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NLS 000 001 0-1 x x
Hitting — Hastings: Cory Wolters 1-4 r, Jason Greder 1-5 r-2, Jordan Jeske 2-5 rbi-2 2b, Ben Bundschu 1-4 r rbi-2, Blake Warner 1-3 r rbi, Evan Kirin 3-4 r rbi-2 hr, Max bundschu 1-4 rbi, Patrick Rough 2-3 r-2 rbi … NLS: Jake Rambow 1-4 rbi, Adam Schrader 2-3, Mason Toutges 1-1, Scott Rambow 1-4 2b, Mike Danielson 1-3 sb, Dalton Rambow 1-3, Josh Soine 1-3 r, Ben Kulset 2-3
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — Hastings: Zack Nelson (W) 6-8-1-1-2-6, Douglas Nordine 1-2-0-0-1-1 … NLS: Adam Nibaur (L) 7-12-9-9-3-9