North Dakota Preps

Steele beats Rolla 7-3

Do you know who pitched for Langdon today?

drew wold started out. Justin Flink finished it off.

from june 1

[font=Nimrod MT]State  Class B Baseball Tournament[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]At Jack Brown Stadium[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Opening Round[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Midkota 2, Thompson 0[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Thompson        000      000      0          â€â€

some random thoughts from the state b baseball tournament...

the midkota/thompson game was absolutely great. jordan grover was overpowering, as was tyler kjemhus. grover walked three in the first inning while striking out the side...pretty interesting to see him settle down as the inning went on. midkota's baseball team reminds me a lot of mayville's basketball team...they equal your effort for a bit and then do one or two little things that put you in a hole that you can't get out of.

chris heins looked impressive. he had four strikeouts in the last five outs and seemed to get stronger as the game went along. steve berreth has few to no wasted movements behind the plate...he seems to just move well as a catcher. bakkum has a tweaked hip or something...it looked like he injured it during his first (maybe second) at bat. sounds like he will just play through it. i thought rollete just never seemed to be able to shake off that they were playing at state...waaaay to many errors, but i think tomorrow you would be able to see the team that got there versus the team that was out there today.

weidler and huettl were impressive. they absolutely dominated the game whenever they were apart of it. felt bad for huettl...at the end of the game you could see he was struggling and i kept waiting for them to go to a reliever and it is too bad that a really solid beginning part of the game was turned into a loss. i thought eric henke was going to jump out of jack brown stadium when he scored the game-winner. that moment is what high school sports (though really, any sports) is all about.

lamoure can hit the ball. they were lacing just about everything. the first 5 innings took 2 hours...the last two took about 39 minutes. wold hit a home run just under halfway up the pole in left field. a SHOT. ben watkins can hit the ball and he is only a soph....4-for-5 or something like that. long game that really seemed to struggle a lot out of both teams physically and emotionally until wold's home run.

La Moure-L-M 17

Minot Ryan 0

 

Steele 4
Midkota 1

Congrats to Steele on making the championship game.

[font=Nimrod MT] State Class B Baseball Tournament[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]At Jack Brown Stadium[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Semifinals[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Steele-Dawson 4, Midkota 1[/font]

[font=Nimrod MT]Midkota            000          010          0              â€â€

box scores for the April 14, 2006 Langdon @ Steele-Dawson games

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles ... 113257.prt

7th Place Game
Minot Ryan 6, Rolette 5

5th Place Game
Thompson 11, LaMoure 0

3rd Place Game
Velva 6, Midkota 4

2006 North Dakota Class B Baseball Championship

6 Steele-Dawson/Wing/Tuttle-Pettibone/Robinson
3 Langdon

[align=center][font=Helvetica-Narrow]State Class B Baseball Tournament[/font][/b][/align]
[align=center][font=Helvetica-Narrow]At Jack Brown Stadium[/font][/b][/align]
[align=center][font=Helvetica-Narrow]Championship[/font][/b][/align]
[align=center][font=Helvetica-Narrow]Steele-Dawson 6, Langdon 3[/font][/b][/align]
[font=Helvetica-Narrow][size=9]SD                000                  213                  0                      â€â€

Congrats to Steele on winning the class B state championship this year.  Well deserved.

I think Steele set a record for most batteries in a title game. heh. I thought they'd start Schwab, then Heins and Bakkum, maybe Berreth in there somewhere briefly while bases were empty. I also thought they'd have to get an early lead and hang on for dear life at the end. Wrong on both counts. It's Steele's and the old Dawson's first titles in any sports, congrats!

tingly wrote:I think Steele set a record for most batteries in a title game. heh. I thought they'd start Schwab, then Heins and Bakkum, maybe Berreth in there somewhere briefly while bases were empty. I also thought they'd have to get an early lead and hang on for dear life at the end. Wrong on both counts. It's Steele's and the old Dawson's first titles in any sports, congrats!

yes it is the first "team" championship ever in both towns...

SCC wrote:I think Midkota deserves some credit for defeating Thompson in the quarterfinals.  Those two runs Thompson gave up to Midkota were the only runs they gave up in the tournament.

are you sayin Steele wouldnt have won state if Midkota didnt beat Thompson?  Steele simply beat who was in front of them.

I would of loved to see a Thompson vs Steele matchup. Steele played some good baseball and got by there opponents. Thompson had a tough go of it in the 1st game vs Midkota but then showed how they could really play in there last 2 games. You cant take any team lightly come tournament time thats why they play the game.

Might have been a different story if Midkota sat Grover vs. Thompson. Coulda meant a Thompson vs. Steele matchup. Or if Midkota still won, Steele would have gotten Grover.

Dont set Steele short, they gave up a total of 6 hits the whole tourney.

Granted, but their bats weren't as active as other teams. I wondered if Langdon regretted using their ace on Friday.

This doesn't prove anything, but I thought I'd add up stats out of curiosity. Thompson looks really good compared to everybody.

runs scored & allowed
17   7 Steele-Dawson
28 17 Langdon
13 20 Velva
  7 10 Midkota
21   2 Thompson
26 24 LLM
10 27 Ryan
  8 23 Rollette

hits & hits allowed
22   6 Steele-Dawson
26 20 Langdon
19 19 Velva
10 21 Midkota
25   4 Thompson
24 32 LLM
15 21 Ryan
  5 23 Rollette

errors & opponent errors
  4   8 Steele-Dawson
  6 12 Langdon
12   5 Velva
  4   3 Midkota
  2   3 Thompson
  5 10 LLM
  8   6 Ryan
10   4 Rollette

Those are very interesting stats, Rolette only had 5 hits for the tournament!!! wow, ya Thompson does like impressive in those stats. Steele looks pretty good themselves, but there the state champs now so, Congrats to Steele great tourny

I would like to see the state tourney go to double elimination. A team runs into a good pitcher and they are out of  it. If i'm not misstaken all region tour are double so why not state?