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CITY  (NewsDakota.com)–Not many baseball games that feature 28 combined runs leave a pitching performance as a highlight.

Errors will do that.

Post 60 pitcher Jaden Keys threw an effective gem while the circus hit both defenses in an 18-10 Valley City win over Grafton in the first round of the Leevers Classic American Legion baseball tournament in Valley City Friday night.

Keys struck out 12 in a complete-game effort for the win, scattering eight hits and allowing just two earned runs.

The other eight runs were the result of nine errors that put Valley City in a 5-0 hole after the top of the first against a Grafton team that was essentially a Babe Ruth club.  Grafton sent their legion team to East Grand Forks for a tournament, and sent three legion reserves and their Babe Ruth to Valley City.

Grafton’s youth showed, as they committed nine miscues, leaving the game with 18 total errors and 19 unearned runs.

Keys added a three-RBI triple in the sixth to put the game away after Grafton closed to within 12-10 in the top half of the inning.  Spencer Meyer was 2-3 with two doubles, scoring three times after being hit by pitches in three at-bats.  Brett Stearns was 3-5.

Post 60 plays their semifinal at 7:00 p.m., and will face the winner of the Enderlin-Thompson game that is set for Saturday at 11:00 a.m.  Valley City and Enderlin games are heard on Q101 throughout the tournament.