Liz Dietz handled the pitching throughout. She showed command in her shutout performance. She set down six Dutchmen batters on strikes, walked two and allowed two hits in six innings. Melrose had Makiya Luetmer on the pitching rubber.
Jen Solvie was the hot hitter with her four safeties in five at-bats. One of her hits was a double and she drove in two runs. Bailey Marty and Emma Bowman each rapped two hits with Emma coming through with a double. Dietz complemented her pitching with a base hit. LaRae Kram had a one-for-three line. Katelyn Wehking had a hit and two runs-batted-in. Carissa Oberg had a hit in her only at-bat and drove in two runs.
The two Melrose hits were off the bats of Amy Austing and Ashley Rademacher.
The Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Momentum built up more later, capped by a seven-run sixth inning. (My spelling of Carissa's name is from Maxpreps. The Willmar paper has it spelled differently.)
Baseball: Melrose 10, Tigers 4
The baseball fortunes weren't so great for the Tigers in competition vs. Melrose. The scoreboard outcome was 10-4 on Tuesday, here. The teams were basically even in hits, Melrose with seven and the Tigers with six. Melrose had one error compared to the Tigers' two.
The orange and black got in a hole early as the scoreboard showed 5-2 after two innings. Melrose's big inning was the fourth: five runs in.
MACA had three pitchers share the load with Jaret Johnson getting tagged with the loss. Johnson worked for three innings and allowed five runs but only one was earned. He struck out three batters and walked two. Jordan Leuthardt pitched one inning and had a rough go of it, then Zach Bruns had his arm called on. Bruns set down two batters on strikes in his two innings.
The winning pitcher for Melrose was Carter Tschida whose stint was four innings in which he fanned four batters. He allowed five hits and walked three. Reegan Nelson got the pitching save. Nelson pitched three innings, fanned four batters and allowed one hit.
On to hitting: here we see Michael Halvorson with a multiple-hit game for the Tigers: two-for-three. Jack Riley rapped a double. Bruns doubled also and he scored a run. Johnson had a hit, a run scored and an RBI. Colten Scheldorf had a hit and a run scored. There were two Dutchmen with multiple-hit games: Tschida at 2/4 with a run and an RBI, and Bradley Hellermann at 2/3, two runs scored and a double. Other Dutchmen hitting safely were Grant Moscho, Drew Ostendorf and Luke Dehmer.
This was a West Central Conference game.
Weather is impediment
Isn't this practically an annual issue? We see a very tentative start to the spring season of diamond sports: baseball and softball. Track and field has some indoor fieldhouse competition. Spring is unique in how it challenges us with the weather. In the fall, football gets played unless there's lightning, period. Volleyball is indoors as are the winter sports.
Following the winter sports teams is a no-brainer - if a game is on the schedule, it gets played. Nice to be able to take that for granted. We have a problem in spring.
I have written about this before with suggestions, but the world is not anticipating any suggestions from yours truly. Shall I be a broken record? Baseball and softball could run from May until the first week of August, overseen jointly by the high school and an organization like the American Legion. I suppose some of the logistics could be daunting. But maybe not.
I have also suggested that track and field be offered as the only spring sport. There is something for everyone in track and field, whether you're big or small, fast over the short distances of more of a jogger. One sport would promote simplicity and thus save money, wouldn't it? Early-season meets would be concentrated at the spacious fieldhouses.
Oh, and as for the month of April, how about some indoor intramural sports?
Now, Good Friday
I have been told we must differentiate Easter and Good Friday. I'm not Mr. Answer Man about religion. I do know that the crucifixion story grates on me, irritates me because of the sheer violence. Is this really necessary? Did this up-front gore come about because of the Mel Gibson movie? Why do we have to follow Hollywood's lead?
Christmas is a totally happy holiday, never mind that we don't really know the date of Christ's birth. Even if the babe was not the son of God, it is still such a heartwarming story. A babe with super powers.
Christians make such a big deal out of Easter. Even on Easter itself the gloom of Good Friday seems to carry over. I have entered the sanctuary of my church with the lights off to mark the gloom of the crucifixion. (Do not spell it "crucifiction" even if you're thinking of fiction.) By the end of the service we're supposed to be joyous. Well fine, it's always nice to feel joyous. I'll go to YouTube and call up the concluding scene of Monty Python's "Life of Brian."
My church is combined with Assumption Church on Good Friday evening. Assumption is the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is in the news these days for such terrible reasons and I'm not thinking of the Notre Dame fire. Yours truly played with a musical group in that cathedral back in the summer of 1972. Nice acoustics.
I'm not sure the Lutherans should have an active association with the Catholics at present. There was even a misbehaving priest here in Morris not too many years ago. So, these things don't just happen "somewhere else." That dude had an appetite for child porn. I would feel better just reflecting on faith in solitary fashion at home. I think it's more meaningful that way. "Look on the bright side of life" (from "Life of Brian").
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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