Saints set franchise record for hits in 18-4 win

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With an improving lineup, the St. Paul Saints offense showed its potential in an 18-4 win at Louisville on Thursday.

St. Paul’s big day included a franchise-record 22 hits and a franchise record-tying eight home runs. All nine hitters had a hit, led by four each from Matt Wallner and Michael Helman.

Brooks Lee, Yunior Severino and Tony Kemp each had three hits.

Severino, Helman and Wallner each had two homers while Brooks Lee and Jair Camargo also homered.

Reliever Jordan Balazovic (4-4) earned the win with three innings pitched, giving up one run on one hit with five strikeouts.

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State baseball: Guerin’s grand slam leads Mounds View past Minnetonka in Class 4A quarters

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Mounds View helped itself now and potentially later on Thursday at CHS Field.

Led by a third-inning grand slam from Iowa commit Tyler Guerin — his first homer of the season — the Mustangs bounced fourth-seeded Minnetonka 11-1 in five innings in the Class 4A quarterfinals on Thursday.

The fifth-seeded Mustangs will meet top-seed and undefeated Wayzata (25-0) — who defeated unseeded St. Cloud 6-5 in Thursday’s quarterfinals — at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the semifinals in St. Paul.

That Mounds View (19-8) finished the deal in just five innings heightens the odds Thursday’s starting pitcher — Andrew Gette, who surrendered just four hits in the quarterfinal — could contribute in a potential Monday final should the Mustangs advance past the Trojans.

Mounds View’s 11 runs came via just five hits, as Minnetonka (17-8) walked a jarring 13 batters on Thursday. Guerin, Thomas Shields and Robert Price each drew two walks, while Isaac Beseman drew three free passes.

Prior to Guerin’s grand slam, the big hit of the night belonged to Jack Glancey, whose two-run single highlighted a four-run second frame.

 

Lakeville South defeats Stillwater 17-8 to advance to girls lacrosse championship game

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Lakeville South defeated Stillwater 17-8 at Eden Prairie High School on Thursday to advance to the girls lacrosse state championship game.

South midfielder Tori Tschida led the way for the Cougars with four goals and six assists, with fellow attacker Ella Mills and midfielders Sivanna O’Brien and Katie Grubbs combining for 10 goals and two assists. Stillwater attackers Jackylyn Richert and Lydia Glass scored two goals each.

“To get the opportunity to play for the championship is great,” Lakeville head coach Joel Tornell said. “They pushed for it. They wanted it to happen, and they pushed for it.”

The Cougars will meet Prior Lake at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in Eden Prairie for the state title.

Stillwater’s Rayna Malmberg scored the first goal of the game just three minutes into the game. Grubbs responded just 16 seconds later with a goal of her own, starting a swift 5-0 Lakeville run in just under five minutes of play. The Cougars held a 7-2 lead after the first quarter.

Lakeville’s Charlotte Fannin put another point on the board 26 seconds into the second quarter to extend the lead to six. But Stillwater responded nicely with a 4-1 run the rest of the quarter to cut the Cougar lead in half — trailing, 9-6, heading into the break.

“Our biggest issue is that we need possession,” Mills said of Lakeville’s second quarter struggles. “Once we have possession, we have the ball, like, I don’t think there’s any team that could stop us. … we took deep breaths, we are calm and we got that ball back.”

O’Brien halted the Ponies’ momentum with back-to-back goals within the first three minutes of the second half. Tschida scored the Cougars’ 12th goal of the game shortly after as Lakeville extended the lead back up to six right out of the break. Stillwater and Lakeville notched one goal each through the next eight minutes as the Cougars led, 13-7, after three periods.

“We had a little setback, for part of the game we didn’t play as well,” Tornell said. “We got back rolling in the third quarter and things kind of smooth back out.”

Lakeville continued to pour it on Stillwater scoring four goals to the Ponies’ one to secure the victory and a spot in the state title game.

“We’re very excited,” Tschida said. “We’re more focused on the team win and not on stats today. We’re excited to be in this game because, obviously, we were in it last year and we wanted to come back, especially for our seniors.”

“I think we gave it our all definitely sucks,” Stillwater coach Carly Fedorowski said. “But we just came up short and yellow cards don’t help. When we end up in the box, not very good things happen. But we’ll come back better than ever on Saturday. We’ve got another chance to end on a win.”

Stillwater will take on Benilde-St Margaret’s for third place at 1 p.m. Saturday at Eden Prairie High School.

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Esko 3, Montevideo 2: The top seed scored three runs in the first frame and then held on for victory.

Bobby Thornton hit an RBI triple in the first inning, then stole home later in the frame.

Finn Furcht threw a complete game, striking out eight and allowing just one unearned run.

Foley 6, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 5: The No. 4-5 quarterfinal was tied at 3-3 entering the final frame. Zumbrota-Mazeppa scored twice in the top of the frame to take a 5-3 lead.

But then Foley, the No. 4 seed, scored three times in the bottom of the frame, winning the game on a sacrifice fly from Bryce Gapinski that scored Wyatt Lueck.

Foley will meet Esko in a Class 2A semifinal on Friday.

Rockford 2, Blake 1: The No. 2 seed trailed 1-0 heading into the final frame, but scored twice in the seventh, winning the game on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Colton Lundberg that scored Harrison Edwards.

William Haas threw a complete game for Rockford, striking out 10 batters.

Le Sueur-Henderson 9, Perham 1: The No. 3 seed was ousted as senior second baseman Samuel Gupton went 4 for 5 at the dish with four RBIs and two runs scored.

Logan Feeney struck out nine batters in six and two-thirds innings for Le Sueur-Henderson.

Le Sueur-Henderson will meet Rockford in a Class 2A semifinal on Friday in St. Cloud.

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