ENDERLIN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Day 4 of the Class B district 7 Legion baseball tournament came to a close as LaMoure comes away with the title.
The first game of the day started at 4pm, and saw a battle of one loss teams, Lisbon against Oakes. Lisbon would jump out to a 4-0 lead by scoring 1 in the first, 2 in the second, and 1 in the third. However the Oakes bats would come alive in the home half of the third inning as they would score 4 runs in the inning. Two of which came from a 2-run home run from left fielder Steele Hansen, and then a solo home run compliments of Alex Nelson.
Oakes’ bats stayed hot in their 16-3 win at Enderlin as they hit their first two home runs of their legion season. Left-fielder Steele Hansen hit the first one for a grand slam in the second inning to grow their lead to 6-0. Starting pitcher Garrett Meehl hit the second one with two men aboard in the fourth inning to put the game away.
Oakes’ offense had seven hits in this one and were beaned by seven pitches as well. In the past two games, Oakes has been hit by 14 pitches with 15 hits. They have also scored 31 runs in those games in just combined seven innings.
OAKES, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Oakes outscored South Border 30-7 in the first quarter and never looked back on the way to a 75-29 win over the Mustangs on a Region 3 matchup Tuesday night in Oakes.
Steele Hansen outscored South Border in the first half 16-15 as the Tornadoes built a 54-15 lead at the break. Hansen finished with a game high 25 points. Ashton Biesterfeld added 17 points and Garrett Meehl chipped in 13.
Kaden Bader led the Mustangs with seven points. Set Wolf and Trevor Schmidt each had five.
Oakes improves to 6-2 overall and 3-0 in Region 3 games. South Border falls to 0-10 overall and 0-2 in the Region.