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N.D.  (NewsDakota.com)  For the second year in a row, the Kindred Vikings have won the State Class B Babe Ruth Baseball Tournament.  The almost three hour championship game on Monday featured a home run, 23 combined runs, five different pitchers, 25 total hits and a walk-off.  Kindred won 12-11 and finishes at 32-7.  It was a rematch of last years title match in New Rockford, Kindred won that game 6-0.  Prior to the State tourney, the two teams met four times this year with Thompson winning three of them.  But in the State Tourney, Kindred beat Thompson twice, both by walk-off.

With two out in the bottom of the seventh inning and Kindred down by a run, Matt Freier would hit a single to right field to score Keaton Rustad and Evan Waskom to win the game 12-11.  It was the first hit of the game for Freier.  The winning pitcher was Nicholas Mathias, taking the loss was starting pitcher Cadyn Schwabe.  Mathias was 2-for-4 at the plate with a solo home run, a double and scored three runs.  See Kindred pic below.

FIRST GAME MONDAY:  Thompson 10  Carrington 0, 6 innings (elimination game)

The Thompson Tommies scored one run in each of the first four innings and then added four in the fifth and one more in the bottom of the sixth to beat Carrington in the early game Monday.  Carrington finishes in third place at 23-4-1.  

IMG_5945         -Carrington photo courtesy of Denise Shipman, above

 

  -Kindred photo courtesy of Kyle Freier, below

 

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