Britton’s 14U baseball team has a full head of steam heading into postseason play, winning four games in the past week to boost its season mark to 21-7.
The local nine swept Milbank 12-6 and 10-5 on Thursday and steamrolled Sisseton 11-4 and 11-1 on Monday. Britton was supposed to play Emery and Clark in Clark on Sunday but those games were wiped out by rain after just an inning and a half of play.
Britton will host Volga for the first game of a regional best-of-three series on Tuesday at 7 p.m. and then travel to Volga next week Thursday, July 31, to close out the series. Britton is hosting the U 4 state tournament Aug. 8-10 and has an automatic state berth, but the regional series will be used to determine pool seeding.
Britton 12-10
Milbank 6-5
Britton jumped out to 7-0 leads in the second inning of both games and Milbank was not able to bounce back.
In game one Chaz Vietor tripled and singled and knocked in four runs to lead the win. Drew Heitmann and Max Suther both doubled, and Liam Peters, Jack Teveldal, and Joseph O’Brien each laced singles. Heitmann was the winning pitcher with relief help from Peters and Levi Mills with Mills fanning six batters in three innings.
Vietor came up with a pair of singles and two RBI’s in game two, Suther doubled and knocked in two runs, and Carter Grobe, Luke Bosse, and Jacob Folkman each singled. Suther was the winning pitcher, striking out six in just two innings. Three Britton pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts with Teveldal fanning six in just two innings and Bosse two in one frame.
Britton 340 301 1 – 12 7 2
Milbank 040 200 0 – 6 8 3
Drew Heitmann, Liam Peters (3), Levi Mills (5) and Luke Bosse; Allen, Baron (4) and Tesch
Britton 430 21 – 10 6 1
Milbank 101 30 – 5 3 2
Max Suther, Luke Bosse (3), Jack Teveldal (4) and Drew Heitmann; Scoular, Tesch (3) and Baron
Britton 11-11
Sisseton 4-1
Britton used some big innings to overwhelm Sisseton, pushing across five tallies in the fifth frame of the opener to take charge and putting together four-run rallies in both the first and fifth innings of game two.
Bosse laced three singles to lead Britton’s nine-hit attack in game one. Vietor added two safeties, and Peters, Teveldal, Bowen Micko, and Mills had base hits. Peters picked up the pitching win, throwing six innings and fanning four.
Britton out-hit Sisseton 5-1 in game two and played errorless ball in the field. Heitmann had a pair of singles, and O’Brien, Blayden Downs, and Folkman had safeties. Vietor pitched the first three innings to get the win, not allowing a hit and striking out six. Heitmann pitched two innings of relief and fanned four.
Britton 022 051 1 – 11 9 3
Sisseton 000 001 3 – 4 6 5
Liam Peters, Levi Mills (7) and Drew Heitmann; Nielsen, Stickland (5), Hanson (6) and Anderson
Britton 421 04 – 11 5 0
Sisseton 000 10 – 1 1 3
Chaz Vietor, Drew Heitmann (4) and Luke Bosse; Anderson, Barse (2), Chanku (4) and Sine
