The Jackson American Legion baseball team claimed two more wins Saturday to advance to the championship of a tournament in Luverne.
Post 130 defeated Tea, S.D. 7-2 and Worthington 13-3 in five innings to advance to today’s (Sunday) 10 a.m. championship game.
Brett Rossow pitched a complete game in Jackson’s win over Tea, which won the South Dakota Baseball Association Class B state title this spring. Baseball is not a sanctioned high school sport in South Dakota.
Rossow allowed two runs on seven hits, walked two and struck out eight. He helped his own cause at the plate by getting on base three times on a hit and two walks.
Ben Dahlin had three hits including a double out of the number nine spot in the batting order and Bryson Powers had two hits including a double. Gabe Wolff and Brennan Runge also had a hit apiece for Post 130.
That set up a game for the right to advance to the championship game that matched 2017 Jackson County Central graduates as head coaches, Jackson’s Easton Bahr and Worthington’s Austin Nunez.
Each team scored one run in the first inning, but Jackson took control in the bottom of the second inning when it sent 12 batters to the plate and scored seven runs. Worthington plated a pair in the top of the third, with Post 130 answering right back with five in the bottom.
Wolff was 3-for-3 with a double and a triple; Powers had two hits, walked and was hit by a pitch; Runge and Cameron Scholten each had two hits including a double; Trey Rossow had a hit and walked; Ben Spaeth doubled; and Brett Rossow had a hit.
Scholten pitched the first four innings to get the win as he gave up three runs on four hits, walked five and struck out six. Runge pitched the final frame, allowing one hit and striking out two.