The final field of eight is set at the South Dakota State Class B Amateur Baseball tournament. Last night, Kimball-White Lake defeated Redfield 9-4 — and the Salem Cubs fell 13-1 to Winner/Colome.
Zak Wallner pitched a complete game on 173 pitches for Kimball White Lake with 10 strikeouts. Wallner also batted 2-for-4 with two runs scored. This was the second complete game outing on the mound for Wallner in the state tournament.
Dylanger Pierson hammered a two-run home run in the top of the ninth for the Nationals to extend Kimball-White Lake’s lead to 9-4.
For Winner/Colome, Connor Hopkins struck out 11 batters and walked just one in a complete-game win to send the Pheasants to the quarterfinals. Winner Colome led 5-1 after seven innings, and scored eight more in the ninth to shut the door on Salem’s season.
Winner/Colome and Kimball-White Lake play at 7:30 p.m. on Friday for a spot in Saturday’s semifinal round.
Tonight is the first set of quarterfinals games with Dimock-Emery taking on Plankinton at 5:30 p.m. and Flandreau vs. Alexandria to follow. The winners of these games will play each other in the semifinals on Saturday. We will have coverage of both games tonight on Kool 98.3 FM or streaming online at kool98.com.
Quarterfinals matchups:
Thursday:
Dimock-Emery vs. Plankinton @ 5:30 p.m.
Flandreau vs Alexandria @ 7:30 p.m.
Friday:
Dell Rapids vs Larchwood @ 5:30 p.m.
Kimball-White Lake vs Winner/Colome @ 7:30 p.m.