Rocori and Cathedral baseball will play on AM 1390-Granite City Sports for a 2nd straight day today. The Crusaders play in the consolation semifinals at 10am this morning against Minnehaha Academy in Class AA at Joe Faber Field in St. Cloud.
The Rocori baseball team defeated Tech 13-3 at St. John's University Wednesday night. Rocori jumped on Tech starter Thomas Friesen early and held on to win. Brandon Gill had 3 hits and 4 RBIs and Dalton Thelen was 2-2 with 3 runs scored for Rocori.
The Rocori baseball team saw their season come to an end Friday in the Class 3-A State Tournament Consolation Semifinals at Northwestern University in Roseville with a 4-2 loss to New Ulm.
Rocori scored first on an RBI triple from Austin Dufner before New Ulm scored 3 runs in the 3rd inning to lead 3-1...
Rocori topped Tech 7-0 in the Section 5-3-A baseball playoffs today at Dick Putz Field. The game was suspended Saturday due to rain with Rocori leading 7-0 in the 5th inning. Rocori advances to play in the Section 5-3-A championship at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon.
The Cathedral baseball team faces a must-win game tonight at Dick Putz Field when they play Wadena-Deer Creek at 5pm. The Crusaders are the defending Class AA state champions. If Cathedral wins tonight they will play the loser of the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle vs. Albany game at 7pm Tuesday night. LPGE plays Albany at 7pm tonight in the winners bracket. The winner advances to the Section 6AA final Thursday.
Section 83A Playoffs
1st Round
Sauk Rapids-Rice 2, Moorhead 1
(Grant Chapa threw all 7 innings to get the win and was 1-3 at the plate with 1 RBI for the Storm)
Alexandria 4, Tech 3
(Zach Otte went 2-3 with 1 RBI for the Tigers. Tech is 4-17)