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N.D.  (NewsDakota.com)  Carrington has won eight Central region games in a row, sweeping New Rockford, Harwood, Gardner and Hillsboro/CV.  Post 25 is now 13-1 in the Central Region after taking two from Hillsboro/CV on Wednesday night 6-2 and 16-5.  Carrington is still in first place and improves to 21-7 overall, and HCV drops to 1-10 and 1-19 overall.  

In the first game, despite a solo blast by Jace Stallman in the top of the first inning to put the Blue Sox Post 4 up 1-0, Carrington would come back to tie it in the third inning after Brady Smith hit a sacrifice fly to knock in Easton Paeper.  Later, Post 25 would score five more runs to secure the victory.  Patrick Freeman was the winning pitcher going five innings, with seven strikeouts, five hits and one run.  Second basemen for Post 25, Connor Wendel, went 2-for-3 at the plate with a walk and scored two runs.  Lead-off man Logan Forseth for Post 4 had two hits.  Stallman took the loss.

In the second game of the evening, Carrington would score six runs with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning to win by 10-run rule 16-5 in five innings.  Eight out of nine batters for Post 25 had at least one hit, Patrick Freeman was 3-for-3 with a walk, three RBI and scored a run.  All but one batter for Post 25 would score at least once, Paeper and Smith scored three times.  Smith was the winning pitcher working three innings, four hits, five runs, one strikeout and two walks.  Tanner Linnell took the loss, working three and two-thirds, with 10 runs and six hits.  

Next up for Post 25 will be next Wednesday in Casselton for a non-region contest.  Pregame will start about 4:45pm on AM 1600 KDAK and newsdakota.com, first pitch at 5pm.