Amateur Baseball

Here's the latest from on how local teams did in the state amateur baseball tournament today:

St. Cloud's Beaudreau's Saints got the bats going early in a 6-1 win over the Coon Rapids Redbirds on Saturday night in the state amateur baseball tournament.

The Cold Spring Springers defeated Red Wing 6-5 Sunday in the Class B Super Sections. Cold Spring scored 4 runs in the 5th inning to propel themselves to the win. Cold Spring will play the Austin Hounds at 5pm at Dick Putz Field in St. Cloud in the Class B State Tournament.

Thousands of amateur baseball fans will be in town over the next few weeks. The Municipal Athletic Complex is hosting the Class B and C State Amateur Baseball Tournaments.

The Sartell Muskies downed Clear Lake 11-0 in 7 innings Sunday to capture the Region 1C championship. Brian Schellinger went 2-4 with 2 RBIs for Sartell. Clear Lake defeated Mora 7-6 in 10 innings earlier in the day. Brett Stinogel had a solo homerun in the 10th inning to lift Clear Lake.

The Sartell Muskies defeated Hinckley 1-0 in the Region 1C playoffs. Sartell is 20-8. Clear Lake will play Mora in Hinckley at 7pm tonight.

The Cold Spring Springers have advanced to the Super Regionals by guaranteeing no worse than a 2nd place finish in the Region 7B playoffs. The Springers defeated the Marshall A's 9-2 Sunday. Ryan Morse was the complete-game winner on the mound for the Springers. Cold Spring is 31-10.

Amateur Baseball: Sauk Rapids Cyclones 5, Cold Spring Springers 4 (Nate Swan and Tom Wippler each had 2 RBIs for the Cyclones) Granite City Greys 6, Sartell Stone Ponies 3; Sartell Muskies 14, Brainerd Bees 6;

Nisswa 4, Cold Spring Springers 3 (exhibition); Sartell 7, St. Augusta 0;

Clear Lake 3, Ultimate Snappers 1; Sartell Muskies 15, St. Joseph 0; Sauk Rapids Cyclones 7, Brainerd 1 (Jeff Hille went 3-4 with the Cyclones) St. Stephen 15, St. Wendel 8;