CARRINGTON, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Day three of the 2023 North Dakota State Class B Legion Baseball tournament was held on Friday with another four games. Some morning rain came through and caused the first game to start 44 minutes late, as field crews worked on the field to get it dry enough to play, here are the results:

Langdon 11 New Rockford 1, 6 innings

Langdon Redsox put up two runs in the bottom of the first, three in the third and added three more runs in each of the fifth and sixth inning to knock out the Cinderella of the tourney, the Blacksox of New Rockford. New Rockford defeated Hazen on Thursday on a walk-off two run single to stay alive in the tourney, but just couldn’t get the bats going against Langdon. Keaton Cudworth takes the loss, working three and a third, Skye Kramlich came in and worked an inning and two-thirds. Jax Johnson picks up the victory, working six innings. NR ends their season at 6-9 overall. Langdon is now 18-6 overall.

Carrington 3 Cando 2

Carrington Post 25 scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth to take the 3-2 lead and that would end up being the final as they hold the Bearcats scoreless in the top of the seventh inning. Lucas Hendrickson picks up the victory, Grady Shipman came in and got the last out. Jack Ahlberg takes the loss. Carrington improves to 16-8 overall, Cando ends their season at 16-5 overall.

Thompson  9     LaMoure  3 (semifinal)

LaMoure scored 2 runs in the bottom of the first inning on a Garrett Hebl 2 run single scoring Connor Johnson and Corban Potts (2-4, 2 runs). Thompson would score 9 straight runs taking their first lead in the third inning with a Thomas Shumacher (4-4, 2 RBI, 3 runs, BB, HR, 2 doubles) solo homerun and  an RBI double from Jonathan Muhs (1-3, RBI, HBP, run) that scored William Welke (1-2, RBI, 2 runs, HBP 3 times) who was hit by pitch earlier in the inning. LaMoure pitchers hit 5 Thompson batters, walked 1, and gave up 13 hits in the game. Drew Overby and Shawn O’Hearn both added 2-4 plate appearances to aid the Thompson offense. LaMoure Post 19 (3 time defending class B champions) dropped there overall record to 26-7 and Thompson Post 181 improved to 27-6, both teams entered the semifinal with identical 26-6 records. Drew Odenbach would pick up the pitching victory throwing 4 1/3 innings taking over for starting pitcher Braydon Wolfgram with 2 outs in the third inning.  Odenbach allowed just 1 one in the seventh inning on a Anthony Hanson RBI sacrifice flyout. Thompson will play in the title game against the winner of the Langdon/LaMoure game (12:00 P.M. Saturday) at 3:00 P.M. Saturday.

Langdon  9     Carrington  5  (8 innings)

Carrington needed just 3 outs in the bottom of the seventh inning with a 5-1 lead but couldn’t put the Red Sox away until they finally scored 4 runs in the frame to tie the game at 5-5 to force extra innings. Langdon Post 98 got on the board first with a Brady Regner (3-5, 3 runs, RBI, HR) solo homerun in the bottom of the third inning. Carrington would score five straight runs including a 4 run fifth inning. Grady Shipman belted a 2 run homerun (2-5, 3 RBI, 2 homeruns, 2 runs) that scored Jack Erickson (3-4, BB, run, SB) who singled to start the inning. Owen Hagel (1-3, HR, RBI, HBP) smashed a solo homerun 1 batter later off the new scoreboard in left-center field. Hagel was robbed of a 2 run homer in the first inning when Nik Kingzet (Langdon left fielder) tracked down Hagel’s deep fly leaping above the left field fence to take away homerun. Kingzet made 3 more diving catches in the game that took away several more scoring chances for Carrington. Carter Tetrault picked up the pitching win pitching the final 3 1/3 innings allowing just 1 run on Shipman’s solo homerun in the sixth inning. Tetrault struckout 3 batters and allowed just 2 hits. Tied at 5 going into the bottom of the eighth inning Langdon would load the bases with 2 outs when cleanup batter Jack Romfo would make his only hit of the game a big one, ending the game with a walk off grand slam to give the Red Sox a 9-5 win. Carrington finishes the season with a 16-9 overall record and a fourth place finish at the state tournament. Langdon improved to 19-6 and will play LaMoure at 12:00 P.M on Saturday.

 

SATURDAYS SCHEDULE:

12pm -LaMoure vs. Langdon (loser takes third place)

3pm – Thompson vs. LaMoure/Langdon winner(championship)

Sunday at 12:00 if Thompson loses 3:00 game.

All games on Thunder Country 98.3 and newsdakota.com.