The Britton U14 baseball team will host the Delta Division State Tournament Friday through Sunday this week and takes a 21-9 season record into tourney play.
Five-inning pool games get underway on Friday with Scotland-Menno meeting Miller at 11 a.m., Garretson vs. Volga Navy at 12:30 p.m., Elkton takes on Scotland-Menno at 2 p.m., Britton plays Garretson at 3:30 p.m., Miller vs. Elkton at 5 p.m., and Volga tangles with Britton at 6:30 p.m.
Bracket play on Saturday begins at 10 a.m. with the final game of four that day at 7 p.m. Three Sunday games start at 9:30 a.m., followed by a 12:30 p.m. contest and the 3 p .m. championship game.
The tournament opening ceremony is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Friday with former Britton player and long-time coach Roger Tom throwing out the first pitch, along with a parade of teams. A closing ceremony, including the presentation of the Sportsmanship Award, will be held following the 9:30 a.m. game on Sunday.
Two teams come into the tournament with just two losses on the season. Garretson is 15-2, with its’ only two losses to an upper division Volga White team that defeated Britton last week and Scotland-Menno sports a 14-2 mark.
Britton earned a state tournament berth due to its hosting the event but tuned up for tourney play in a best-of-three series with Volga White last week. Volga White will be hosting the Charlie Division State Tournament this weekend and the purpose of the series was to keep both teams sharp for state play. Volga Navy is competing in Britton.
Volga White won two straight, stopping the local nine 8-1 last week Tuesday in Britton and winning 3-0 in Volga on Thursday.
Volga used back-to-back three-run innings in the third and fourth frames to lead 7-0 and take charge of the opener, out-hitting Britton 12-7 and not committing an error in the field. Drew Heitmann tripled and doubled, and Jack Teveldal, Chaz Vietor, Max Suther, Bowen Micko, and Levi Mills added safeties.
In Thursday’s game Volga pushed across a first inning run but the game remained 1-0 until the winners added two tallies in the sixth for the sweep. Liam Peters rapped a pair of singles and Teveldal and Vietor had base hits for Britton. Vietor went the distance on the mound.
Volga 013 301 0 – 8 12 0
Britton 000 000 1 – 1 7 2
Uecker, Hauck (7) and Moe; Drew Heitmann, Chaz Vietor (4), Luke Bosse (7) and Bosse
Britton 000 000 0 – 0 4 1
Volga 100 002 x – 3 9 1
Chaz Vietor and Drew Heitmann; Langland, Hauck (5) and Moe
