BVU upsets top-ranked team
Local grads play role for Beavers; Expanded Sunday Morning Twitter Barrage
A pair of local graduates played roles Saturday as the Buena Vista baseball team swept NCAA Division III top-ranked Washington University-St. Louis in Storm Lake, winning 8-2 and 3-1. The teams are scheduled to play a single game Sunday.
In Saturday's opener, Fairmont graduate Tyler Tennyson, a grad student at BVU, was the winning pitcher as he went seven and one-third innings, allowing two runs on six hits, hitting one batter and striking out two. At the plate, he went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs batted in. In the nightcap, he had two more hits (both doubles), a sacrifice bunt and one RBI.
JCC grad Easton Bahr, a senior, had a hit, sacrifice bunt, three putouts and two assists in the first game and then had two hits, was hit by a pitch, four putouts and four assists in the second game.
Fairmont graduate Jack Waletich, a redshirt junior at Minnesota State, walked twice, was hit by a pitch two more times and scored three runs in the Mavericks' 10-2 win at Wayne State in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday. MSU had won the opener 7-1.
Derek Shoen of Truman, a sophomore at the University of Mary, was on base eight times Saturday as the Marauders split a doubleheader with Minnesota-Duluth. He had three hits in the first game, then had three more hits including his fourth home run of the season and also walked twice in the second game.
Fairmont graduate Ali Lardy, a junior at North Dakota, placed third in the shot put with a PR of 46-2 1/2 at the Kip Janvrin Invite at Indianola, Iowa on Friday. That's tied for the sixth best all-time at UND.
Fairmont graduate Connor Tordsen tied Dakota State's school record in the men's hammer throw Wednesday at USD. He had the top NAIA throw with a mark of 165-2 to place seventh overall. He also plays football at DSU, which beat Mayville State 26-7 Saturday to close its 2020 schedule.
Fairmont graduate Wyatt Quiring, a junior at Gustavus, placed second in the 400 meters (49.26) at the Drake Alternative meet Saturday in St. Peter. He was also on the Gusties' 4x400 team that was second and 4x100 team that placed third.
Three Fairmont graduates, Lexi Kaufman, Mikayla Stradtman and Sadie Sandersfeld, are starters on the Bethany Luther women's soccer team that is 1-4 after a loss to St. Scholastica Saturday. Stradtman had a shot on goal.
JCC graduate Lacey Reitz, a senior setter at Northwestern College, will play in the NAIA Women’s Volleyball National Championship that starts Tuesday in Sioux City. The Red Raiders are in a pool with Corban, Ore. and Oklahoma City.