JAMESTOWN (NewsDakota)- “That was more like it”.  That’s what LaMoure/Litchville-Marion/Edgeley head coach Gaige Dunn had to say after his teams’ season finale, a 10-0, five-inning win over Bottineau on Saturday afternoon at Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown in the seventh place game of the NDHSAA Class B baseball tournament.

It started immediately, as lone senior Gunner Thielges was hit by a pitch and Colby Thielges drove him home with a double before Mason Warcken plated Colby with a groundout in the first for a 2-0 lead.  In the second inning, the Loboes blew it open.  Six of the first seven batters reached and four scored, highlighted by Ross Fredenburg’s two-run single and it was 6-0.  Gunner then drove home Collin Barnick in the third with a sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 7-0.

Meanwhile, Warcken was dominating on the mound.  The junior permitted only two singles and two walks while striking out five in earning his fifth win of the season.  In his last two outings, he tossed twelve scoreless innings with nineteen strikeouts.

In the fifth, Barnick, Grayson Mattson, and Gunner all singled before Colby drove home two with a single and Fredenburg ended the game with a walk-off single to center field.  Barnick and Mattson, the bottom two in the order, were a combined 5-for-6 with five singles, four stolen bases and four runs scored.

The Loboes graduate Gunner Thielges, who will play for North Dakota State University football in the fall, but return every other player in 2027.