St. Patrick came from behind to win today in Region 3C title game. The Irish took advantage of 6 Union Hill errors in 8-7 ten innin victory in St. Patrick.
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Faribault Lakers Shoot Down Montgomery Mallards
The Faribault Lakers ran their record to 6-0 with a 6-2 win today at Memorial Field in Montgomery. The key to their impressive start has been very good pitching.
Nate Rost started his first game by going seven innings with 10 strikeouts, 1 walk, 5 hits allowed. My scorebook had him with 103 pitches, 73 strikes. When Rost left the game Faribault had a 2-0 lead. Joe Grote threw the final two innings facing 10 batters with 3 strikeouts, 0 walks, 4 hits allowed, 2 earned runs.
Notice just 1 walk for Lakers pitchers. In 52 innings pitched to start the season Faribault pitchers have walked 7 batters while fanning 74. Opponents are hitting .169. Nine different players have pitched with 7 logging 2 innings or more.
Faribault Lakers Dominate Elko
The Faribault Lakers scored 7 runs in the 7th inning to break open their game at Elko Sunday. The final score was Faribault 13, Elko 2 in seven innings.
The Lakers went with the same formula on the mound that has been working. Jake Petricka opens the game by pitching the first two innings. Then Faribault has three more pitchers come in and take care of buisiness.
They combined to allow 6 hits, 2 runs, 1 earned with 1 walk and 9 strikeouts. Tyler Francis got the victory throwing two innings of no hit ball with 1 walk and 2 strikeouts.
Petricka had 5 strikeouts to lead the staff.