Huskies at home
JCC to host two games in 3AA softball tourney
South Sub-Section top-seeded Jackson County Central is scheduled to open play in the Section 3AA softball tournament on Tuesday.
The Huskies, 18-3 following Saturday’s 11-5 loss to New Ulm in the Big South Conference championship game, are slated to host two games.
Fourth-seeded Windom plays fifth-seeded Minneota/Canby in the single elimination first round at 4 p.m., with the winner facing the Huskies in a game scheduled for 5:30 p.m. JCC receives a bye into the double elimination portion of the tourney.
Jackson County Central swept a doubleheader from the Eagles (9-0 and 19-5) on April 8 and has not played the Vikings this season.
Windom defeated Minneota/Canby 4-1 when those teams met on May 10 in Windom.
Pipestone is seeded second in the South Sub-Section and will also host two games on Tuesday.
Hosting games in the North Sub-Section Tuesday will be top-seeded Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta and second-seeded Dassel-Cokato.
Section 3AA
Tuesday, May 20
Number in parenthesis indicates seed number
South Sub-Section
At Jackson
Windom (4) vs. Minneota/Canby (5), 4 p.m.
Jackson County Central (1) vs. Windom-MC winner, 5:30 p.m.
At Pipestone
Luverne (3) vs. Redwood Valley (6), 4 p.m.
Pipestone (2) vs. Luverne-Redwood winner, 5:30 p.m.
North Sub-Section
At Morris
Minnewaska Area (4) vs. Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (5), 4 p.m.
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta (1) vs. 4 p.m. winner, 5:30 p.m.
At Dassel
Dassel-Cokato (2) vs. Montevideo (7), 3 p.m.
New London-Spicer (3) vs. Litchfield (6), 4:30 p.m.
Winners of first two games, 6 p.m.
State stats
According to statistics on minnesota-scores.net, Jackson County Central is tied for fifth among Class 2A in the state in runs allowed per game (1.6) and is seventh in runs scored (10.3).
Spectrum has not allowed a run in 16 games.
One of those games was a 2-0 win over Kimball Area, which leads the state in runs scored per game. Spectrum is seeded second in Section 5AA behind Rockford.
These statistics are for games played through Saturday.
Here are the top 10 teams in each category:
Runs for
Kimball Area 11.7
St. Cloud Cathedral 11.6
Spectrum 11.2
Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 10.8
Randolph 10.7
St. Clair/Loyola 10.6
Jackson County Central 10.3
Breck 10.2
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 10.1
Hawley 9.9
Runs allowed
Spectrum 0.0
Randolph 0.5
Kimball Area 0.7
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 1.0
Jackson County Central 1.6
Caledonia 1.6
Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 1.7
Hawley 1.7
Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial 2.0
St. Agnes 2.0
No. 1 seeds
Here are the number one seeds in each of the Class 2A section tournaments. Won-loss record is in parenthesis.
1AA: Randolph (19-1)
2AA: Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial (18-1)
3AA: South: Jackson County Central (18-3); North: Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta (17-2)
4AA: Visitation (16-4)
5AA: Rockford (18-1)
6AA: St. Cloud Cathedral (18-1)
7AA: Greenway/Nashwauk-Keewatin (17-2)
8AA: Hawley (19-1)